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Teenagers jailed for torturing boy for six hours after spilling drink

Three teenagers who held a boy captive for six hours and tortured him for knocking over a drink have been jailed been jailed for a combined 14 years.

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Twins Lucy and Christopher Pyatt-Pierce were jailed for four years and two years respectively

The 15-year-old victim was slashed with knife, had lit cigarettes stubbed out on his face, was attacked with a curtain pole and burnt with a lighter.

He suffered serious injuries, including cuts and a badly broken nose, during the sustained assault in the early hours of September 29 last year.

Kyle Ashton, 19, led the attack at his flat in New Moseley Road, Highgate, after flying into a rage that his visitor had spilled a drink on the floor.

The teenager offered to wipe up the mess but cruel Ashton demanded he lick it up off the floor and, when he refused, poured a Pot Noodle over his head.

Kyle Ashton was given an eight-year sentence

Christopher Pyatt-Pierce, who arrived at the flat just before midnight with the victim, joined the onslaught and punched him several times.

His twin sister, Lucy Pyatt-Pierce, was present throughout the near four-hour ordeal and was said to have instigated the assault, goading her brother and Ashton to lash out and proceeded to film it on her mobile phone.

The boy, who was stripped of his clothes, was eventually freed after 5am and found by a member of the public wandering the streets in just a T-shirt.

Fearful of further violent repercussions, the schoolboy initially told police he had been robbed by strangers but eventually disclosed what had happened and pointed out Ashton's flat.

Sentencing

The 18-year-old siblings and Ashton were all arrested and charged with wounding and false imprisonment.

On Friday at Birmingham Crown Court, Ashton, from Willowbank Road, in Hinckley, was jailed for eight years after being found guilty of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and false imprisonment.

Lucy Pyatt-Pierce, from Fordhouse Lane, in Stirchley, was jailed for four years having been found guilty of the same offences.

Her brother, of Glendower Road, in Perry Barr, was given a two-year sentence having been found guilty on a lesser charge of wounding and false imprisonment.

Detective Constable Sarah Proctor, investigating officer, said: "This was a brutal, degrading attack on a 15-year-old boy that was sparked by something as innocuous as spilling a drink on the floor.

“What followed was a prolonged and terrifying ordeal for this young man in which he feared for his own life. All the windows and doors were locked in the house – he had no way to escape and none of the three intervened at any stage to say ‘enough is enough’.

“I wish the victim well in his continued recovery from this episode which understandably has had a significant psychological impact."

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