An evil mum and stepdad who left their starving autistic son just days from death in a locked attic room have been sentenced to prison.
02.02.2022 - 09:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple kidnapped a man and subjected him to 12 hours of brutal torture before blackmailing him out of hundreds of pounds.
The victim, in his 40s, has been left scarred for life.
Minshull Street Crown Court heard how the man met his ex-partner Sarah Davies, 33, at an address on Edmund Street, in Oldham, on the morning of August 4 last year.
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While inside the address, Davies' friend Steven Wynnyk, 41, beat the victim with a metal pole before subjecting him to over 12 hours of mental and physical abuse.
Judge Mark Savill described the abuse as ‘torture’.
During those 12 hours, boiling water was thrown on the man's head, he was threatened, and he was told he'd be buried.
Making demands for money, Wynnyk and Davies put a bag over the man's head and put him in a car where he was driven to various locations across Oldham and was left burnt with cigarettes.
After going to the victim's mum's address and taking hundreds of pounds in cash and via bank transfer, the victim was released by Davies and Wynnyk, who both then fled.
The man was left with partial thickness burns to the head, a laceration to the back of his head, and scarring from cigarette burns.
Judge Savill told the court that the injuries were caused by ‘thuggery’.
Officers from GMP Oldham received a report of the violent attack the following day and arrested them the morning after, before they were charged with a total of 10 offences between them.
Both Davies and Wynnyk took the case to trial before Davies, of Swinton, pleaded guilty on the first day to single counts of kidnap and blackmail.
Wynnyk, of Oldham, continued to deny the accusations throughout a seven-day trial before he was found
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