Man kidnapped, stabbed and tortured with boiling water during eight-hour ordeal

A thug ran a brutal and highly organised crime gang that kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured and blackmailed a man for a £100,000 ransom, a court heard. Another man taken by the gang was slashed with a knife then tortured with boiling water in a terrifying ordeal said by prosecutors to have lasted seven or eight hours.

In scenes reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film, the masked members of the gang used weapons including guns, knives and an 'attack dog' together with torture techniques such as waterboarding to terrify and torment their victim.

Fortune Lawson and a gang of criminal associates he recruited from London abducted the victim in Cardiff and, after torturing him in a flat, took him to a safehouse in Hertfordshire while negotiations were conducted for cash in return for the man's life, the court was told.

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It wasn't the first time Lawson, who goes by the street name Mills or Millz, and a gang of his thugs had abducted and tortured a man. At the time of the Cardiff incident he was being investigated by police in London for kidnapping and torturing another man - including pouring boiling water over him - to get cash.

Sending Lawson and his gang down at Cardiff Crown Court, Judge Daniel Williams said the defendant believed himself to be 'untouchable', reports Wales Online.

He added: "Your hubris led you to believe (the victims) would not dare to go to the police, whatever you subjected them to....the agony they must have went through must have been unimaginable and the