‘JACKALS’ IN KIDNAP TERROR
VICTIM LEFT PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE
FOUR men who acted like a ‘pack of jackals’ have avoided jail after kidnapping a man in broad daylight, driving him four miles away to a secluded spot, and beating him - they also filmed the ‘sickening’ attack.
Zubair Adair, 25, Dre Giblin, 24, Louis Goddard, 24, and Curtis Kerr, 26, were seen bungling the man into a black Mercedes in Oldham, before driving away.
After around 20 minutes, the man was shoved into a huge puddle in a secluded unknown spot in Ashton - and the four of them set upon him,
Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
The man, who was slightly built, was kicked to the head and stamped on as he pleaded for his life.
In a video shown to the court, the mobile phone footage filmed by Adair then showed the man cowering on the floor as his trousers and underwear were pulled off him.
It is not known why this attack occurred, as neither the victim, nor the four men have given an explanation.
At an earlier hearing, Adair, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Giblin, also of
Ashton-under-Lyne, Goddard, of Chorlton and Kerr of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Yesterday they were each sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for two years.
Prosecutor Nicholas Clarke told the court that victim needed hospital treatment for multiple rib fractures, a collapsed lung and lacerations to the face after the incident on January 21 this year.
Sentencing them, Judge Paul Lawton said: “What I have seen is absolutely sickening. All together you were acting like a pack of jackals attacking a wounded animal that was in fear of its life. He was completely and utterly beaten and degraded.”
Giblin was handed 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirements, Goddard received 40 days of RAR and Adair received 20 days with an added curfew. Kerr, who was also sentenced to a separate offence of dangerous driving, received 20 RAR days, was ordered to complete the ‘Thinking Skills’ programme and had his licence endorsed.