Violent gang who kidnapped and tortured two flatmates in four-hour knife ordeal jailed – Alokito Mymensingh 24

A violent gang that kidnapped and tortured two housemates throughout a four-hour knife ordeal has been in jail for greater than two years.

Alessandro Russo, Maomar Franco and Alberto Castillo tied their victims to chairs with cable ties earlier than holding blades to their necks and threatening to homicide them throughout the horror assault.

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The three thugs stormed into the Edinburgh residence armed with giant knives and compelled a sufferer to switch money from his checking account and in addition stole £1,700 price of money from him.

The trio barricaded the terrified males in a bed room earlier than fleeing the New City house with gadgets together with a Nintendo Change, cellphone, mountain bike and laptop computer.

Russo, 32, and Castillo, 36, had been arrested the next day after victims reported the horrific October 2021 assault.

Franco, 36, was tracked down two weeks later after one of many victims noticed him DJing at a Latin-style nightclub within the metropolis heart and referred to as the police.

The three attackers pleaded responsible to kidnapping, assaulting and robbing victims Jacob Salaet and Daniel Ceballos at their residence within the capital after they appeared in Edinburgh Sheriff’s Court docket earlier this yr.

They returned to the dock for the sentencing at this time, the place Sheriff Kenneth Campbell informed KC the incident should have been “a horrifying expertise” for the 2 victims.

Sheriff Campbell stated: “The circumstances that I’ve heard had been very disturbing.

“It was an unprovoked assault on two males with no clear motivation they usually had been all closely underneath the affect of medication and alcohol.

“The narrative clearly factors to a component of planning and it was a sustained assault.

“They reported to the police that they thought they had been going to die.

“I’m satisfied that imprisonment is the one applicable punishment on this case.”

Russo, from Musselburgh, East Lothian, and Franco and Castillo, each from Edinburgh, had been every sentenced to 27 months in jail.

Russo’s Stephen Mannifield stated his consumer has two youngsters and has “efficiently combated his drug habit, which led to his involvement on this crime”.

Peter Successful, representing Franco, stated there was “no pre-planning on his half” and that the assault was “fully out of character” for his consumer.

The court docket additionally heard that Castillo was working as a kitchen porter and was depending on crack on the time of the assault.

His legal professional added that her consumer was not a drug person and “not concerned in drug trafficking.”

Earlier, prosecutor Ross Value informed the court docket that the 2 victims had been on the residence of a basement house on town’s London Road round midnight on October 27, 2021.

Mr Value stated Jacob Salaet answered a knock on the door and was confronted by the three gang members, who carried blades and made “stabbing motions” on the person’s abdomen.

Jacob had his palms and toes tied whereas the second sufferer, Daniel Ceballos, was “woke up by three males by his mattress” and a 15cm blade was pointed at his abdomen and neck.

The gang, all of whom are Spanish nationals, ransacked the house and compelled Daniel to switch £1,391 right into a checking account earlier than demanding that he hand over £1,715 in money he had hidden in his bed room.

Russo warned the couple to not contact the police “in any other case they might come again and kill them” earlier than barricading the boys in a room and fleeing the house within the capital round 4am.

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