A man was forced to become a drug dealer after he was threatened by gangsters with a hot iron and they made him take off his clothes while filming him. Ryan Leonard, from Kensington, was held captive by the gang who threatened his life over a debt he owed before they released the footage of him online, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Police believe that the 28 year old man's life was at serious risk as he was left powerless to the situation and pressured to settle his debt by dealing heroin and crack cocaine for a ''persistent, professional'' supplying operation. Liverpool Crown Court heard that police on duty on Oxton Road in Birkenhead spotted the wanted man at around 3:30pm on June, 8 when they witnessed him ''acting suspiciously around a group of drug users''.
Leonard was searched and was found with £675 in cash on his person. Officers discovered Leonard's pregnant girlfriend, Brooke Morgan, 30 who was waiting close by in a Fiat 500 who seemed ''very nervous''.
