London-based nurse Josephine Iyamu, who used voodoo threats to traffick vulnerable women from Nigeria to Germany to work as prostitutes, has had her 14-year prison sentence increased to 18 years by Court of Appeal judges.
Iyamu made her victims swear oaths to hand over money during “juju” ceremonies which saw them ordered to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and endure powder being rubbed into cuts.
Iyamu, 51, formerly of Wilson Grove, Bermondsey, was convicted of five counts of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation after a 10-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court.