This is the chilling moment CCTV shows two thugs buying cable ties and padlocks before carrying out a violent kidnapping.
Ricky Fidler and Mason Schubeler were caught on camera making the purchase just 15 minutes before entering a house along with two other men armed with bats and knives.
The pair, along with Reece Speirs and Harri Pearce, bound the two men with cable ties and forced them into a van.
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CCTV shows the men travelling around the North Shields and Wallsend area with the victims, where they were threatened with scissors held to their fingers and knives held to their throats.
Police officers were alerted to the kidnap after receiving calls on July 1 last year at around 7.30pm following reports a man had fallen out of a moving white van.
One of the victims was able to jump out onto the Coast Road after noticing van was unlocked and suffered serious injuries, while a second was subjected to an ordeal lasting more than three hours.
The second victim was taken to an unknown address where Laura Watson meets them before he was taken to another location and then let go.
One of the victims was "tortured to near death" by members of the gang.
Schubeler returned home and Fidler stayed in a hotel overnight but as police closed in on him a highly dangerous police pursuit was sparked as he tried to escape.
Dashcam footage shows Fidler driving on the busy Coast Road and heading into oncoming traffic.
Detectives leading the investigation spent hours trawling CCTV to piece together events and create a timeline that allowed them to build a case which resulted in the culprits pleading guilty.
Watson, 46, Pearce, 21, of Meldon Close, Wallsend, Speirs, 23, of Norham Road, North Shields, and Schubeler, 20, of Marondale Avenue, Walker, Newcastle, all pleaded guilty to kidnap.
While Fidler, 20, of Victoria Court, West Moor, Newcastle, admitted kidnap and dangerous driving.
Schubeler, of Marondale Avenue, Walker, also appeared to be sentenced for conspiracy to supply cocaine; Speirs was also sentenced for assault occasioning actual bodily harm; Fidler was also sentenced for dangerous driving; and Pearce was also sentenced for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and aggravated burglary.
Schubeler was given 11 years and nine months in a young offender's institution.
Fidler was jailed for 10 years and banned from driving for nine years and six months - he must also undertake an extended re-test if he wants his licence back.
Speirs was jailed for seven years and four months.
Pearce was jailed for 12 years and eight months and was banned from driving for 11 years and nine months - he must also undertake an extended re-test if he wants his licence back.
Watson was jailed for 25 months.
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