UN judge Mugamba was given six years for keeping a slave in Britain

UN judge Lydia Mugambe has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison in the UK for holding a young Ugandan woman in slavery. This is reported by The Guardian.

50-year-old Lydia Mugambe, a judge of the International Residual Mechanism for UN Criminal Tribunals, took advantage of her status "in the most egregious way." In the UK, she was in Oxford for her doctorate.

"In March, Mugambe was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a violation of UK immigration laws, facilitating travel for the purpose of exploitation, forcing someone to work and conspiring to intimidate a witness after the trial. Mugambe, who is also a judge of the Ugandan Supreme Court... forced her (the woman) to work as a maid and provide child care, prosecutors said,"the newspaper writes.

It is noted that the judge, sentencing Mugamba at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, said that the defendant "showed absolutely no remorse" for her behavior and that she sought to "forcibly blame" the victim for what happened.

In a written statement read out in court, the victim said she lived in "almost constant fear" because of Mugambe's influential position in the Uganda. According to her, she is now unable to return to her homeland because of fears that she will be avenged, and said that she may never see her mother again. Earlier, the victim was granted asylum in the UK, as her fears are well-founded.

At the court session, it was reported that Mugambe resigned from the post of a UN judge.