Sign up for the MyWigan newsletter for the biggest stories direct to your inbox A thug terrorised an innocent couple and threatened to set their home on fire if they failed to hand over £11,000.
Sarfraz Riaz, 39, promised to involve gangsters if the couple failed to cough up the money he claimed their relative owed him.
Riaz said he lent the money to a friend he had been living with but, after the man failed to repay him, Riaz tracked down his family and ordered them to settle the debt.
The couple, who lived in the Wigan area, were left so terrified by Riaz's threats of violence that they were forced to flee their homes and jobs. READ MORE:Devastated family left 'numb' after 'caring, bubbly' dad found dead on pavement in Manchester At
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