Just a reminder of how far this went...

Victim James Amburn blew the four wealthy OAPs' £2.3million savings on the US sub-prime mortgage market. And in a bizarre caper that left police astonished, the elderly plotters snatched him off the street and threw him into a specially prepared dungeon in a bid to force him to pay back the cash.

The kidnappers hit Amburn over the head with a Zimmer frame and stuffed him in a cardboard box, then wrapped him in duct tape until he "looked like a mummy" after stopping to get their breath back.

They then bundled him into a car boot and took him 300 miles to a secret prison on the shores of picturesque Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria.

After stripping him him naked, they burned him with cigarettes and chained him up "like an animal". They also broke several of his ribs with a chair leg before 40 police commandos stormed the house and saved him.

While Amburn is being investigated for fraud, I think we can all agree that the cigarette burns were a bit much.

via Nothing To Do With Arbroath