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'Monstrous' North Shields couple guilty of sadistic attack on friend in scenes like a horror movie

A sadistic couple have been found guilty of subjecting their supposed friend to a sickening attack in shocking scenes reminiscent of a horror movie.

Jon Hamblin and Jessica Whinham turned on Paul Binks in an "inhuman" and gruesome attack as he slept, leaving him with horrific injuries in an apparent attempt to cut his heart out. Mr Binks woke up in Whinham's flat in North Shields to find his intestines sticking out and says he was then throttled with a phone charger and put in the bath and told he would be drowned.

After pleading for his life, he was eventually allowed to leave and turned up bleeding heavily at a shocked couple's home in the early hours of the morning and nearly died on his way to hospital. The apparent motive for the attack was Mr Binks sharing a rumour with Hamblin that pornographic model Whinham was a "grass", which he said he did to warn him to be careful.

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