Oxford student and high court judge accused of modern slavery
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24941607.oxford-student-high-court-judge-accused-modern-slavery/
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Oxford student and high court judge accused of modern slavery
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24941607.oxford-student-high-court-judge-accused-modern-slavery/
Posted by suspended-sentence
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Uganda abolished slavery in 1957 as part of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.
Maybe she didn’t get the memo?
This is absolutely appalling, and just goes to show how broken our judicial system is, when someone residing over the UN courts is even accused of this.
I don’t know what would be worse; either this judge not knowing what she was doing was against the law, or that she knew it was but thought she was above the law.
Though while doing some research, modern day slavery is still relatively common in Uganda, I assumed a country with their history would be taking more of a stance.
No surprise there is little trust in UN courts.
It always horrifies me how much modern day slavery is ignored, people will go to great lengths to dredge up historical slavery from centuries past but don’t seem to give a fuck about the modern slave trade.
Uk judicial system is full of awful people presiding over the public.
I’m going to have to assume that this is the first time Oxford Crown Court has had an Ugandan High Court Judge appearing in the dock.
Also charged in August 2024 so bit of a backlog here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Mugambe#Controversy
“In the same month, she allegedly met Mugerwa in London at a social event in the Ugandan High Commission where she is accused of engaging in ‘illegal folly’ with him.
The prosecution alleged that Mugerwa assisted the defendant in bringing the girl to the UK in a ‘trade off’ stating it was a ‘you scratch my back I will scratch yours’ situation.”
It’s weird how “nice” the langauage is when the powerful commit crime isnt it.
You or I do it and it’s human trafficking for them just a little “illegal folly”
She literally imported someone to enslave, deport her.
This happen very often among the wealthy middle east families from oil fortunes that come to live in London and bring their maids, often women from south asia. There was an investigation by Channel 4 and there are several associations and charities to help “domestic slaves” in the UK. https://youtu.be/pvrPH29O8wk?si=yEfpwLl6rySNOjEO