Three men have been jailed for a total of 15 years after a kidnapping and assault in Smethwick. The victim, a man in his 40s, was abducted in the early hours of the 25th November last year. He was forced into a Seat Leon and driven to a banqueting suite in Smethwick. Over several hours, he was stripped naked, assaulted, burnt with cigarettes, and beaten with a metal pole, all over an alleged debt.
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00:00Three men have been jailed for a total of 15 years after a kidnapping and assault in
00:05Smebic. The victim, a man in his 40s, was abducted in the early hours of the 25th November
00:12last year. He was forced into a Siat Leon and driven to a banqueting suite in Smebic.
00:18Over several hours he was stripped naked, assaulted, burnt with cigarettes and beaten
00:23with a metal pole, all over an alleged debt. Eventually released, an investigation was
00:29launched. Searches in January recovered property from the banqueting suite in Warsaw, leading
00:34to the arrests. Mohamed Jamil, Mohamed Saad and Idris Ahmed were jailed for their roles
00:41in the attack, sentenced to five years, three months and four years, six months respectively.
00:46The pleaded guilty to kidnap at Wolverhampton Crown Court. A major crime team detective
00:51highlighted the brutal nature of the attack and expressed hope that the convictions bring
00:57some closure to the victim.