“What do we do to thieves?”: Dealers battered and kidnapped drug user while filming 'degrading' two-hour ordeal
14.02.2023 - 17:53
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Two 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.
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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.
Driven by Sameer Choudhury, 24, Shah and the teenager repeatedly attacked the man and filmed it on their mobile phones. In one video, a man can be heard asking: “What do we do to thieves?” And another man replied: “We cut them up.”
The man was eventually let go and the police were called. A day later, patrolling officers spotted the car and a high-speed pursuit ensued. Shah and Choudhury were eventually arrested, and found in possession of cocaine and heroin.
They have both been jailed after admitting kidnap, false imprisonment, ABH and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Prosecuting, Julian King said the victim was a class A drug user, and had known and bought drugs from Shah for six months, and so started working for him due to a drug debt. Shah, of