Lydia Mugambe: UN Judge convicted for forcing women to work as a slave in the United Kingdom | United Kingdom News

A United Nations judge has been convicted of forcing a young Ugandesa to work as a slave in Britain.

Lydia Mugambe was also convicted of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a violation of the United Kingdom immigration law, facilitating trips in order to exploit, forcing someone to work and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.

The 49 -year -old defendant denied forcing his victim to do domestic tasks and said “always” treated her with love, care and patience.

But prosecutors said he prevented the woman from maintaining a stable job and forced her to work as her maid and provide child care for free.

Mugambe, who was studying for a doctorate in Law at the University of OxfordHe took advantage of “his state” about his victim of the “most atrocious way” and deceived her to come to the United Kingdom, according to a court.

Mugambe, who is also a judge of the Superior Court in Uganda, was also told to the trial, had the intention of “obtaining someone to facilitate life and the lowest possible cost for herself.”

The victim felt ‘alone’ and ‘stuck’

The victim, who cannot be appointed for legal reasons, told the court previously that he felt “alone” and “stuck” after his work hours were limited.

During the trial at Oxford Crown Court, Paul Raudnitz KC, defending, asked Mugambe if he organized the woman’s trip with the intention of exploiting her in Britain.

Mugambe said: “I never exploded (the woman) in Uganda, why would it exploit her in the United Kingdom?”

Raudnitz also asked Mugambe if the woman ever “worked under a threat of penalty or consequence of you”, and the defendant replied “no.”

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Mugambe was appointed for the United Nations Judicial List in May 2023, according to its UN profile page.

That was three months after the police was called to their address in Oxfordshire.

In images worn by the body when the police went to the defendant’s house, Mugambe said: “I am a judge and she came to help me with the work,” according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

The prosecutors also told the jury that the accused account now is that the woman never worked for her and carried out “light tasks.”

Victim of the defendant ‘exploited and abused’

Caroline Haughey KC, for the Prosecutor’s Office, said in the Court: “Lydia Mugambe has exploited and abused (the woman), taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to employment properly paid and deceiving her about the purpose of reaching the United Kingdom.”

The jury members accepted the claim of the Prosecutor’s Office that Mugambe had been involved in “illegal madness” with the high commissioner of the Uganda High Commissioner, John Leonard Mugerwa, in which they conspired to make arrangements so that the young woman went to Britain.

The couple participated in a “very dishonest” compensation, where Mugerwa organized that the high commission of Uganda sponsored the entrance of women into the United Kingdom in exchange for Mugambe tried to talk to a judge who directed a legal action that Mr. Mugerwa was appointed.