01/08/2011
A businessman has been sent to jail for 33 months for subjecting one of his business associates to a three hour ordeal in which he ordered him to strip and hung him upside down.
Muhammed Sheikh arranged to meet his business colleague, Saeed Noor, in a Dagenham warehouse, along with a third man, Micko Kadic. Noor was accused of defrauding the business of £100,000 by Sheikh. Sheikh then carried out what he viewed as fit treatment for the alleged financial misappropriations before calling the police claiming a citizen's arrest had been made.
In actual fact, Noor had lent Sheikh £10,000 as he had been unable to pay his rent but had asked for the money to be repaid in July 2010, as he needed the funds to take his family on holiday.
Rather than repay the kindness, Sheikh held Noor against his will in the warehouse for three hours, making him strip to his underwear before hanging him upside down from a forklift truck. Sheikh videoed some of the ordeal which shows Noor being slapped so hard he fell over and being tied to a chair before being strung up. The film also showed Noor pleading for the ropes to be loosened as well as the forklift truck being switched on.
After subjecting Noor to three hours of this treatment, Sheikh telephoned the police and said he had made a citizen's arrest, telling officers when they arrived that Noor was guilty of a series of financial crimes such as forging cheques.
Sheikh was arrested and found guilty of assault and actual bodily harm as well as false imprisonment, for which he was jailed for 33 months. Despite assisting in stringing Noor up, the third man, Kadic was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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