A drug-addicted couple tied a man's hands and feet with a belt before torturing him with an iron, a hammer and knife - after he let them live in his flat.
Twisted addicts Michael Rowbotham and Natalie Wightman pressed the clothes iron to the man's cheek and left him with permanent scars across his body - even smashing his knee caps with a hammer.
They burnt his feet with a cigarette lighter and slashed his shins with a knife, reports the M.E.N. The sick duo then locked him in a storing cupboard for an hour.
Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard he thought he was going to die. Rowbotham, 44, and Wightman, 39, have now been jailed for torturing the man after he let them stay in his flat.
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