THREE men and a woman have been given jail terms totalling more than 22 years after they held a man prisoner and subjected him to an 11-hour torture ordeal as they believed he had raided a Stourbridge boxing club.

A fourth man who then callously dumped the semi-conscious battered and bruised victim in a country lane near Old Halesonians Rugby Football Club has also been put behind bars for three years.

The 25-year-old victim was stripped, slapped, punched, stamped on and threatened with a Samurai sword before being repeatedly dunked head first into a tank of water while he was tied to a chair.

The man clearly thought he was going to die, said Judge Amjad Nawaz who told the defendants they had "taken the law into their own hands" having convinced themselves he had broken into Black Country Boxing Gym.

He said they had carried out a "persistent, sustained and deliberate" attack on their helpless victim who had been lured to the boxing club in Lye.

The victim was found walking barefooted and dressed in a pink onesie by a concerned passer-by in Wassell Grove and she quickly alerted police but the incident was something that would stick in her mind for some time, said the judge.

He was rushed to hospital but had been badly affected by the repeated beating that left him with a continual pain in his face and now looking constantly over his shoulder in fear of being set upon again.

After the brutal hostage incident, Wolverhampton Crown Court was told, the man and his family had been made the target of a hate campaign and they were now looking to move out of the Stourbridge area.

The judge told the defendants: "You took the law into your own hands no doubt fuelled by alcohol and once it started there was no stopping."

He said after being taken inside the boxing club the victim had been shown phone footage showing someone on the premises and the four attackers insisted he was the man behind the raid.

Before the court were 29-year-old Ricky Green, of no fixed address, Asa Cartwright, aged 30, of Norfolk Road, Wollaston, his 23-year-old sister Charlotte Cartwright, of Ashton Park Drive, Brierley Hill, Ashleigh Round, aged 25, of Wynall Lane, Wollescote, and 26-year-old Jak Skeldon, of Holy Cross Lane, Belbroughton.

Green, the two Cartwrights and Skeldon all pleaded not guilty to a charge of false imprisonment and two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm - while Round denied kidnapping, having dumped the man in the country lane.

But all five defendants were convicted by the jury at the end of their trial.

Asa Cartwright, Skeldon and Green, who admitted a further charge of affray, were all jailed for six years.

Charlotte Cartwright, a former soldier who unlike the other defendants was of previous good character, was sent to prison for four-and-a-half years Round was jailed for three years by the judge who told the defendants: "You were all in this together."