TORTURE GANG POURED BOILING WATER OVER COUPLE

NABBED: Daniel Wallace was caught on flight from Dubai TWO “barbaric” burglars who tied up an OAP couple and poured boiling water over their heads have each been handed three life sentences.

Kacey Adams, 34, and 33-year-old Daniel Wallace smashed their way into the bungalow of John Buswell, 66, as he watched TV and his wife Janis, 64, knitted clothes for her expected great-grandchild.

The intruders used cable ties to restrain the couple and subjected them to almost two hours of torture to demand the codes to their safes, said prosecutor Tracy Ayling QC.

Judge Charles Gratwicke, sentencing at Chelmsford Crown Court, described both men as “highly dangerous, ruthless professional criminals prepared to use serious violence” to further their aims.

Both men admitted aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent at an earlier hearing at Maidstone Crown Court.

The men were also sentenced for a tit-for-tat drive-by shooting after they were found guilty of conspiracy to murder following an earlier trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Adams, formerly of Ilford, London, and Wallace, of no fixed abode, were both sentenced to life in prison, and must serve 12-and-a-half years before being considered for release.

Each was given three life sentences, with a minimum jail term of 12-and-a-half years for conspiracy to murder, and seven-and-a-half years for both aggravated burglary and causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

All sentences will be served concurrently.

The court heard the two defendants had poured two kettles of boiling water over Mrs Buswell and threatened to sever her fingers and gouge one of her eyes out, and poured one kettle of boiling water over Mr Buswell, punched him in the face NICKED: Kacey Adams had £18k worth of luxury goods in his luggage

Judge Gratwicke said Adams and Wallace had used “gratuitous violence for no reason at all”. OLD AND NEW: Farage has split with wife and is said to be seeing politician Laure (