Lydia Mugambe, a 49-year-old female used as a judge for the United Nations, was condemned on Thursday on several charges associating with a Ugandan female she kept as a domestic servant while studying at the distinguished University of Oxford, according to British authorities.
Oxford Crown Court discovered that Mugambe conspired to assist in the commission of a breach of UK migration law, assisted in travel with a view to exploitation, required somebody to work, and conspired to frighten a witness, The Telegraph reported.
She is anticipated to be sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Might 2.
District attorneys asserted that Mugambe took “benefit of her status” over her victim which, in order to require the Ugandan female to work as her housemaid, she avoided her from keeping other work.
Caroline Haughey KC, prosecuting, informed jurors, “On her[the Ugandan woman’s] arrival, she was made to work for Ms. Mugambe from the very start, unremunerated and serving as housemaid and for childcare to offer Ms. Mugambe back her life.
” Deprived of her liberty to select her own work, to manage her ID files, she was beholden to Ms Mugambe,” Haughey KC included.
Mugambe’s trial heard she had the intent of “getting somebody to make her life simpler and at the minimal expense to herself.”
The scandal was likewise stated to have actually included the Ugandan High Commission, who sponsored the female’s entryway into the UK in a reported compromise for Mugambe trying to talk to a judge who supervised of legal action versus him.
Diplomatic resistance
Thames Valley Authorities launched video footage of Mugambe’s arrest, in which she was stated to appear stunned at her detainment.
” I am a judge in my nation. I even have resistance. I am not a criminal,” she informed an officer before ensuring him that she held a diplomatic passport.
Lydia Mugambe, a UN & Ugandan judge, has actually today been founded guilty of bringing a female into the nation unlawfully & then requiring her to work as a slave.Mugambe attempted to avert justice by declaring she had diplomatic resistance, which has actually now been gotten rid of https://t.co/g0nVYCPBl7 pic.twitter.com/duzVQET6Jk
— Thames Valley Authorities (@ThamesVP) March 13, 2025
Mugambe was designated to the UN’s judicial lineup in Might 2023, 3 months after authorities were contacted us to her address in Oxfordshire, according to her UN profile page.
” Mugambe belongs to numerous expert associations, consisting of the International Association of Women Judges, the East Africa Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, the Uganda Women Judges’ Association, the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, and the Oxford Human Being Rights Center,” her profile declared.
” She has actually released and provided on problems of human rights and kids’s rights,” it included.
Thames Valley Authorities leader for Oxfordshire, Ch Supt Ben Clark, stated, “Lydia Mugambe is an incredibly certified legal representative, a Ugandan High Court judge and a UN Wrongdoer Tribunal judge.
” After the offenses had actually been reported to the authorities, Mugambe attempted to avert justice by consistently declaring she had diplomatic resistance due to her status,” Clark included.
” Any resistance Mugambe might have delighted in as a UN judge has actually been waivered by the Workplace of the United Nations Secretary General.”
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