Acid, a drill and boiling water....the victims will never forget the hours they spent in a house of horror

Some of the cruel and terrifying torture methods sound like something out of a film. But they were all too real for the victims, who received horrifying injuries and went through harrowing ordeals.

In some cases victims were bound and gagged and had a hood pulled over their head, as they received brutal punishment beatings. Others had boiling water poured over them, were ordered to swallow rat poison and were even held at gunpoint.

They are among Greater Manchester's most disturbing offences - kidnap, false imprisonment and torture. And there have been a series of them lately - here, we look at the details.

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A gang of thugs tortured a man over a seven hour period after the victim had tried to sell a Rolex watch online. Remi Burgess, 25, had agreed a price of £4,000 for the watch. He agreed to collect it from a garage where the victim worked in Oldham.

He arrived in a Volkswagen T-Roc being driven by Louis Winstanley, 20, with Dominic McGrath, 29, also in the car. As the victim got in the car to complete the handover, McGrath headbutted him in the face and the car sped off.

Burgess stabbed him in the hand and McGrath knifed him in the leg. He was repeatedly punched as the car headed for the M60, with the men pushing his head into a foot well so he couldn't see where they were going.

The car pulled up outside a house in Timperley. His eyes were taped shut and his hands were taped behind his back with a hood being pulled over his head as they walked him into the house.

As the attacks continued, he had a hot iron pressed onto his stomach. He also had his jaw broken in two places.

One of the gang rang the victim's brother and demanded £100,000, threatening to kill him if they did not receive the money. After the