10 years for sacked employee who tortured ex-boss
Ambreen Gul, 23, was so furious when she was fired that she recruited another sacked colleague and two others to make her ex-boss pay. Having lured Waqas Malik to her flat, the unsuspecting businessman was kicked, punched and pistol whipped repeatedly.
During seven hours of suffering, one of his captors stood on his head, while another warned he would never see his family again unless he raised £200,000 (€252,000) ransom. He was told failure would result in the executions of both himself and his 13-year-old son. Having made several phone calls to his wife in a desperate bid to raise the cash, he was given a powerful sedative. But the get-rich-quick plot went wrong when the 48-year-old fell ill. London’s Southwark Crown Court was told gun-toting Gul immediately “panicked” and the “comatose” businessman was taken to hospital.
