Ten men have been jailed for a kidnap plot which saw a man's finger cut off in a ransom demand.
Three of the men wore balaclavas as they bundled their 26-year-old victim into the back of a van at gunpoint one afternoon in September 2013.
He was taken to a lock-up garage where he was left in the van, bound and gagged with a bag over his head while a gang beat him and refused to give him food or water for 31 hours.
They demanded a ransom of £60,000 from the family of the victim, from Coventry, but when they did not respond quickly enough, the gang cut the man's little finger off.
They left the finger under a brick on a garden wall for his family to find, frightening the family into paying a ransom of £20,000.
Finally ending the victim's ordeal, the gang threw him out of the back of the van on to the street.
He was found and taken to hospital and, just over two hours later, armed police arrested several men for the kidnap. They also recovered most of the ransom money.
Three men - Ralph McLeod, Lewis Poyser and Yusuf Akbar - denied kidnap but were found guilty of blackmail, unlawful imprisonment and wounding after a four week trial at Warwick Crown Court.
McLeod, 37, and Poyser, 24, were jailed for 18 years and Akbar, 33, was jailed for 12 years.
Five others were also jailed for kidnap: Kofi Poyser, 23, and Lamar Grant, 26, were jailed for 16 years; Jermaine Campbell, 25, and Ricardo Grant, 24, were jailed for 15 years; Kadeem Poyser, 31, was jailed for 13 years.
Anthony McLeod, 34, and Ismaeel Akbar, 32, pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment, blackmail and wounding and were sentenced to 15 years and 14-and-a-half years respectively.
Four of them - Anthony McLeod, Kofi Poyser, Lewis Poyser and Lamar Grant - were also jailed for beating a man outside a Coventry nightclub in June 2013.
After being thrown out of the club, the men had stamped and kicked the 26-year-old man's head into a brick wall until he was unconscious in a pool of blood.
The victim was taken to hospital where he was treated for multiple facial fractures and two bleeds on the brain.
The four men pleaded guilty to the assault - McLeod was jailed for 11 years, Grant and Kofi Poyser for 10 years and Lewis Poyser for nine years.
DCI Simon Wallis said: "Both of these crimes were extremely violent and could quite easily have had tragic consequences. Fortunately both victims have managed a good recovery although the mental scars will be with them for many years to come."
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