Footage captured in Manchester shows a gang posing as police officers abducting a man in broad daylight. The victim was held captive for 12 hours, tortured and terrorized, while the criminals demanded a £500,000 ransom. Real police officers eventually intervened, rescuing the victim at the end of the ordeal.
It looks like a clip from a daytime TV cop show. Police officers, after stalking their prey, move in and arrest the suspect.
For the next 12 hours he was tortured and terrorised, as they sought a £500,000 ransom. Another piece of footage, captured at the end of his ordeal, shows how real police officers responded in a desperate bid to save his life. Its unravelling has ended with eight men being handed lengthy jail sentences. After the last conspirators were locked up, the Manchester Evening News can now reveal how the extraordinary plot unfolded.
But there was no way they could do the job themselves, for fear of being recognised. Freeman was a ‘friend’ of their intended victim. They played football together, and they called in a team from the Midlands who would carry out the work on the ground. Freeman’s role was clear from notes discovered on his phone. He had noted the registration plate of the man’s car, and, chillingly, the names of his wife and young child. Leverage, if required.
Within weeks, they would be ready to strike. Police believe that in the intervening weeks, there was at least one aborted kidnap attempt. Lowe, Ukaegbu and Bishop got out and told him he was under arrest on suspicion of class A drug dealing. He was sufficiently convinced that they were the real deal, that he acquiesced and went with them quietly.
He had a dark pillowcase pulled over his face, and the masked man began to address him in menacing terms. "Right then, we know who you are and what you do,” the man, later revealed to be Walfall, said. Walfall picked up the blowtorch, and burnt his right arm as he remained handcuffed. “How much are you going to get me?, said Walfall, who was referred to as ‘Big Dave’ at the scene by his fellow kidnappers. The man said he could get hold of £10,000, and asked how much he wanted.
The brother in law was given a post code in Alderley Edge and told to travel there with £100,000. Walfall told him: “This phone call’s ending. I’m going to give you a postcode and just come if you want to see your man here again. You need to drop one hundred bag at that postcode.”
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