A woman was left 'scared witless' after being tied her up, gagged and punched by two men who forced their way into her flat over an apparent drug debt. They barged their way into her 12th-floor home without warning and she was subjected to "abhorrent" treatment, including being threatened with mole grips and that a hot iron would be held to her face.
The victim was also threatened with being intimately strip-searched during the lengthy ordeal. When her boyfriend returned home, he was also threatened with a knife to his throat, Hull Crown Court heard.
Scott Thomas, 31, of no fixed address but from Hull, and Colin Mellors, 41, of Belmont Street, Hull, denied two offences each of robbery on August 16 but they were convicted by a jury after a trial. Thomas denied making threats with a kitchen knife but he was cleared of that offence, HullLive writes.
