UN tribunal judge deceived a young Ugandan woman into coming to the UK to work as her slave and look after her children while she studied for a PhD in law at Oxford, court hears

A United Nations judge tricked an African woman into coming to Britain to work as her unpaid slave while she studied a law PhD at Oxford University, a court heard. Ugandan High Court judge Lydia Mugambe conspired with deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to bring the woman to the UK to look after her children for free, prosecutors said. Ugandan judge Lydia Mugambe has been charged with tricking an African woman to come to the UK as an unpaid slave to look after her children while she was studying for a PhD at Oxford University ‘Lydia Mugambe and John Leonard Mugerwa conspired together to lie and provide false particulars on a visa sponsorship form about where victim would be working.’ Mr Mugerwa was not charged with an offence because he has left the jurisdiction, the court heard. Oxford Crown Court heard that Ms Mugambe conspired with deputy High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa to provide false information on a visa sponsorship form about where their victim would be working ‘We say Lydia Mugambe intended to exploit and successfully exploited the alleged victim - depriving her the freedoms you and I take for granted,’ Ms Haughey said. She never intended to treat her correctly.’ She added: ‘Lydia Mugambe has exploited and abused the victim - taking advantage of her lack of understanding of her rights to properly paid employment and deceiving her as to the purpose of her coming to the UK.’ Mugambe denies breaching UK immigration law, facilitating travel with a view to exploitation, forcing someone to work and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.The trial continues.