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Article: 'I thought I would die' says torture victim.
- Article from:
- Hemel Gazette (Hemel Hempstead, England)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2008
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A man who was kidnapped in a Hemel Hempstead street and tortured for hours by a cocaine-fuelled gang has spoken of how he thought he would die.
Paul Foster spoke out after two men were jailed for kidnapping him and threatening to cut off his fingers with a power saw in a dispute over missing drugs.
"It was terrifying. I thought I was dead," he said.
"I didn't think I was going to see my family. I thought they were going to shoot me. It's not nice to die at 20."
Wayne Reynolds, of Waveney in Grovehill, was jailed for a total of 14 years and Andrew Bowden, from Hundred Foot Bank in Cambridge, for 11 years at the end of a retrial at St ...