Two men sentenced after kidnapping, torturing, and robbing Leeds uni student

A total of £4,810 was transferred in the defendants’ accounts, but the bank stopped any further transactions for Saquib’s wife’s and Osman’s girlfriends’ accounts.

The victim said Osman was the “craziest of the all” and was nicknamed “Django”. Osman told the victim he would “take this to an M”, which the victim understood to mean murder.

Money was transferred into Osman and Saquib’s accounts as they believed he would not tell police after they threatened that they knew where the victim lived and would find him if he reported the incident.

The victim was allowed to leave the car at 1am the next morning, without money or his mobile phone.

He received hospital treatment for his injures, but told the courts he has been left permanently scarred from his wounds.

The victim attempted to continue with university, but had to leave. Ms Pearson said:”He had to leave university and Leeds despite attempting to carry on as normal. He found the stress and pressure of being in Leeds and his studies overwhelming.”

Osman pleaded guilty to two other offences of robbery. One in which he stabbed a victim five times in the stomach in Huddersfield town centre. The victim threw himself over police station gates to raise the alarm. Another, where he threatened to shank a man in a car if he did not give him money, then stabbed him three times.

Judge Tom Bayliss QC gave Osman, of no fixed address, a 30-year extended prison sentence, made up of a 25-year custodial term followed by a five-year extended licence period.

Saqib, of no fixed address was handed a 20-year extended prison sentence made up of a custodial period of 17-and-a-half years followed by a two-and-a-half-year extended licence period.