A MAN has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for kidnapping.

Tyssen Newland, 36, of Treecot Drive, Leigh, appeared at Cambridge Crown Court with three other men.

They were sentenced a total of 35 years for kidnapping a man, who is in his 20s, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

The other men convicted were Alex Callcut, 31, and Ross Bright, 30, both from Highfield Road, Romford, and Nigel Collins, 38, of Fremantle Road, Ilford.

All four men have also been made subject of a life-long restraining order prohibiting them from contacting the victim, or his family.

Det Chief Insp Jerry Waite, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: “The length of the sentences issued just shows the severity of this crime which was clearly an organised kidnapping.

“This has had a detrimental effect on not only the victim but also the victim’s family.”

The trial had heard on the evening of December 18, 2016, the men went to the victim’s home.

Collins and Callcut knocked on his door, pretending they were police officers and wanted to speak to the victim about a matter in Ilford.

They also asked him to get into their car, where Newland was waiting at the back of it.

When the victim felt something was out-of-place, he told his wife to call the police.

When the two men heard this they barged into the house and covered the victim’s head with a jumper and bundled him into the back of a Mitsubishi Warrior.

The men snatched his mobile phone and claimed he owed them £20,000 and said “You’re going to tell people you owe the money” before beating him around the head.

They headed off towards London and assaulted the victim and forced him to call his family to say he owed money and they needed to pay to secure his release.

The group arrived in Dagenham at The Unorthodox Gym where they met Bright who led them inside.

They threatened the victim with rape and they continued physically assault him.

The men then dumped the victim in Perth Road, Ilford, with his head still covered and wearing just shorts and a t-shirt.

The victim immediately went to a nearby pub and asked the landlord for help.

The men were charged with conspiracy to kidnap earlier this year.

Bright and Newland pleaded guilty while Collins and Callcut denied the charges against them.

They were found guilty following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court.