A 25-year-old estate agent was just entering a property in Birmingham, followed by a man posing as a potential buyer, who had booked the viewing in advance. It was a day like any other, and Stephanie Slater was a normal, young working woman who just happened to be the wrong person at the wrong time - ending up a victim of a kidnapping case that shocked the nation.
It all happened in 1992, and Stephanie was just doing her job when she was abducted at knife point by Michael Sams. The terrified woman was told not to move by her kidnapper, who transported her transported to his workshop in Newark-upon-Trent in Nottinghamshire.
Stephanie endured the unimaginable ordeal of being kept handcuffed, gagged and blindfolded in a coffin-like box, itself locked inside a wheelie bin in Sams' workshop. The terrified estate agent was raped and held ransom for £175,000 from her employers. It was later revealed that the same man, from Sutton-on-Trent, murdered 18-year-old Julie Dart from Leeds after using similar means to imprison her.
