Overview
- Judges at Guildford Crown Court imposed prison terms totaling more than 36 years on five defendants following a six-week trial in December 2025.
- Reece Armstrong received nine years to run consecutive to an unrelated five-year term from July 2025 after convictions for conspiracy to kidnap, Section 18 GBH with intent and two offensive weapon counts.
- Tarelle Thompson was sentenced to nine years with a further five years on licence for conspiracy to kidnap and possession of an offensive weapon.
- Levi Burton was jailed for 12 years with five years on licence, placed on the Sex Offenders Register for life and convicted of sexual assault after earlier guilty pleas to conspiracy to kidnap, false imprisonment and assaulting a police officer.
- The 38-year-old victim was abducted in Dorking, blindfolded and force-fed in Reigate, then assaulted in Farnborough before Hampshire officers rescued him the next day, with four suspects arrested at the scene and Sebastian Love later identified as the caller making demand calls.