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Kidnappings in Greater Manchester rise by 70 per cent in just one year to highest figure in a decade

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The number of kidnappings in Greater Manchester has risen by more than 70 per cent in a year. Latest Home Office figures show there were 579 such crimes recorded in 2021 - a massive 73 per cent increase on the 334 for 2020 and the highest number in the last decade.

In March this year, Manchester Crown Court heard how a gang used the home of a drug addict mum to torture and imprison a man for 12 hours after kidnapping him on the street.

The victim was taken from outside his house in Blackley, north Manchester, then bundled into a car before taken to the house.

During a horrifying ordeal he was bound and gagged, had boiling water poured over his genitals and was forced to swallow tablets which he was told contained rat poison.

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