A couple kidnapped a man and subjected him to 12 hours of brutal torture before blackmailing him out of hundreds of pounds. The victim, in his 40s, has been left scarred for life.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard how the man met his ex-partner Sarah Davies, 33, at an address on Edmund Street, in Oldham, on the morning of August 4 last year. READ MORE: Notorious gangster 'slashed in the neck' in Strangeways prison While inside the address, Davies' friend Steven Wynnyk, 41, beat the victim with a metal pole before subjecting him to over 12 hours of mental and physical abuse.
Judge Mark Savill described the abuse as ‘torture’. During those 12 hours, boiling water was thrown on the man's head, he was threatened, and he was told he'd be buried.
Making demands for money, Wynnyk and Davies put a bag over the man's head and put him in a car where he was driven to various locations across Oldham and was left burnt with cigarettes.
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