‘I just wanted the best for her’ says ‘slave owner’

A Job Centre worker accused of tricking a teenager into flying to the UK to be her slave insisted she only wanted the best for the girl who she considered ‘part of the family’. Afolake Adeniji, 50, allegedly arranged for Iyabo Prosper to relocate to London from her home in Nigeria back in 2003, when she was just 13. Promised a better life and free education, she agreed to come and live with Adeniji and her family first in Beckton,…