An Erith GP and her husband owed a live-in childminder £14,000 for two years of work, but only paid her £350.

Doctor Ayodeji Adewakun, 45, brought over a 29-year-old woman to the UK from Nigeria to work at their home.

Along with her husband, nurse Abimbola Adewakun, 49, they didn’t pay her for over two years despite her being promised £500 per month.

The couple were jailed today, June 20, for trafficking a woman to the UK for the purposes of exploitation.

When the trafficked victim confronted the couple about her lack of pay, she had a bank account set up for her with four payments made into it.

Those four payments, for her working continuously between February 2007 to June 2009, added up to £350.

She was never given a day off, she worked night and day and eventually her health began to suffer.

When she eventually confronted Dr Adewakun about the way she was being treated, her situation worsened.

She was no longer permitted to use the family bathroom and was made to wash her clothes by hand. She eventually escaped in June 2009 with the help of a family friend.

The Met’s modern slavery unit arrested Abimbola Adewakun and later he and his wife were charged on November 10, 2015, with trafficking for the purposes of exploitation.

The pair appeared at Southwark Crown Court on May 19 where they were both found guilty.

Ayodeji Adewakun, from St Katherine's Road in Erith, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for one count of trafficking for the purpose of exploitation.

Abimbola Adewakun, from the same address, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for one count of trafficking for the purpose of exploitation.

The pair were each also ordered to pay £10,000 in compensation to the victim and £2,520 to cover court costs.

Investigating Officer Detective Sergeant Nick Goldwater said: “The couple deceived the victim into working for them by offering her a job in the UK with a regular wage.

“She accepted the job as the salary was higher than what she could earn in Nigeria and she believed that she would be able to send money back home and support her family.

“In reality, the situation she found herself in was one of servitude inflicted by a couple who withheld her identity documents, made her work very long hours and paid her hardly anything.

“I hope the sentences handed down today provide the victim with a measure of closure that help her move on with her life and that they encourage anyone who is being exploited to come forward.”