A thug who kidnapped, assaulted and sexually humiliated a drug dealer in a 'grotesque' 12-hour torture campaign has been jailed. Anthony Richardson, 29, abducted the victim from a street close to his home in Blackley at 7.30pm on November 12, 2019.
The married father was then dragged into a car and taken to the nearby house of a drug addict mother, where he was subjected to horrific violence by a gang of at least eight men. During the 12-hour ordeal, the victim was tied up, beaten, had boiling water poured onto his genitals and had what he believed to be rat poison forced down his throat as the attackers demanded a six-figure payment.
Richardson, who inflicted the majority of violence against the man, has been locked up for his role in what the judge called a 'grotesque' crime, Manchester Evening News reports. Describing the victim's trauma, prosecutor Alexandra Sutton told Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday: "He was imprisoned and assaulted over a number of hours.
