“What do we do to thieves?”: Dealers battered and kidnapped drug user while filming 'degrading' two-hour ordeal
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTwo dealers kidnapped a drug user before driving him around in just his underwear and beating him while filming him in a ‘degrading’ attack.
The man, in his 50s, had been recruited to work for Ali Shah, 23, as a courier. However, events came to a head when Shah gave the man £160 to insure the car he was using to deliver the drugs, but he instead spent it, Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
On one occasion, Shah ordered him into his car and drove him around, ordering a 15-year-old boy to hit him, and make demands for the money back. READ MORE: Coleen Campbell admits lying to police but denies being promised 'cut' of robbery on ex-husband found 'tortured to death' The man agreed, and a payment plan was set up, but before the first payment date, Shah turned up at the man’s house in Oldham.
He ordered the man, who was wearing just his boxers having been woken up, into the car, and a violent two-hour ordeal ensued in which the man was repeatedly slapped and punched.
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