Kidnapping monsters get their comeuppance
A gang of men dubbed monsters for kidnapping and stripping a small-time drug dealer to steal his inheritance have been jailed.
Kidnapping monsters get their comeuppance
The men played various roles in the kidnap of Michael Barclay, 21, from Tolworth, but were all sentenced for the same offence on Friday, August 12.
Mr Barclay was held prisoner from 8pm on February 9, until 3pm the next day and was submitted to “violence and humiliating treatment” according to Judge Andrew Campbell.
The victim had a paper bag put on his head after being punched and head butted, before he was thrown into a car and driven to an unidentified location.
While there he was stripped so he was naked from the waist down, and threatened with rape by Frankie Mackay, who said he never intended to carry out the threat.
A woman at the address, who has still not been traced, also said she would tell police Mr Barclay had raped her if he reported the kidnap.
Mr Barclay also told police he was threatened with a weapon, told they had a burner – street slang for gun – and told they would “wet him up”, although he never saw a weapon and the defence said there was never evidence of a gun.
Judge Campbell said: “In spite of that, what you put Michael Barclay through must have been utterly terrifying.”
In the course of the theft, the men stole £3,000 from Mr Barclay’s bank account, at a Santander branch in Streatham, as well as more cash from his house, when they made him enter the next day to get identification for the bank.
The men were traced through CCTV and forensics. The group brazenly drank from Mr Barclay’s refrigerator.
The court was told some of the men were known to Mr Barclay and wanted to settle a drug debt.
An incriminating text message from Suhaib Ibrahim to Ali Boran also read: “Fam, the jakes [police] know what happened. We have to give the guy’s money back and he will drop the case, or we are looking at a 10 stretch.”
The men were described to Kingston Crown Court as deeply remorseful, with Mackay even offering to meet with the victim and his parents to right his wrongs.
Ramius Joseph, Micoe Tay Nicol-Sey and Mackay, all considered ringleaders, were handed four year prison sentences.
Mackay, who made gun signals toward friends outside the court doors before sentencing, will also serve 30 weeks, consecutively, for breaking a suspended sentence.
Ibrahim, the youngest of the men, was given three years in a young offenders institute, having played a lesser role in events.
It was accepted Borhan, the only one of the four men with no previous convictions, played the smallest in the kidnap, that of driver. He was ordered to serve two years in a young offenders institute.
Speaking after the case, Detective Sergeant Lee Tullett said: “Five dangerous individuals were very quickly identified and arrested in what was a fast-flowing, challenging and in-depth inquiry.
“Due to compelling evidence collated by the team, the defendants were compelled to plead guilty on the first day of the trial.
“The sentencing today shows that the courts take seriously these kind of offences and have removed these monsters off the streets.
“These are young men who hare in the prime of their lives and the sentences, where some people may perceive the should be higher, will have a significant impact because these kids are so young.”
- Frankie Mackay, 22, from Queens Road, Thames Ditton, Suahib Ibrahim, 19, of Victoria Road, Kingston, Ali Borhan, 20, of Goodland House, New Malden, Ramius Joseph, 29, of Woodhams House, Wandsworth, and Micoe Tay Nicol-Sey, 25, of Kingston Gardens, Croydon.
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Comments (1)
No one should ever be treated like this, but the case does serve as a reminder to those tempted to get involved in this type of activity that you are likely to come up against feral scum like this sooner rather than later.