A gang who kidnapped and tortured a teenager with lighters and needles in revenge for stealing drugs have been jailed for a total of 42 years.

Abdulrahman Hassan, 18, formerly of Ashford and now believed to be in Somalia, was bundled into a car by four members of a drugs gang in Ashford High Street in January after he stole drugs, a large amount of cash and an iPhone from one of the members, a court heard.

He was driven to a flat in Weybridge, where he was stripped naked and made to stand on a chair while the gang members burnt his hands with lighters.

He was also told he would “be a smackhead by the end of the night” before being stabbed with a syringe, which he was led to believe contained heroin.

Convicted kidnapper Andrew Moore, 41, of Barnfield Gardens in Kingston, was found guilty of conspiracy to kidnap and false imprisonment in August following a trial.

Moore, a heroin addict, had previously been jailed for 10 years in 2005 at Reading Crown Court for kidnapping and robbing a businessman and tying him up in a car boot.

He was also handed a four-month suspended jail sentence in October 2015 for bringing a camouflaged air rifle into the overspill car park at Chessington World of Adventures.

Moore had denied any part in the kidnap and false imprisonment of Mr Hassan, instead claiming he had spent the day and evening at Surbiton Raceway with a woman with whom he was having an affair.

He had been paid in drugs for his part in transporting and delivering drugs for the leader of the gang, Dalmer Saleh, and claimed he had only overheard other members talking about “beating someone up” while buying drugs at one of their houses.

As he was sentenced today at Guildford Crown Court, Judge Peter Moss said: “You played a major role in the conspiracy and assisted in the torture, punching Abdul when he flinched and were directly associated with the threat to inject Abdul. You are blind in one eye and I am told you suffer with emphysema with a shortened life expectancy.”

Judge Moss said that a pre-sentence assessment reported Moore posed a “significant risk of serious harm to the public”, before jailing him for 12 years for conspiracy to kidnap, and eight years for false imprisonment to run concurrently.

Moore, who wore a blue and white striped polo shirt, will serve at least two thirds of his sentence before being released on licence.

Scott Beecham, 39, of Tolworth Rise, Tolworth, and Saleh, 24, of Manchester Drive in Ladbroke Grove, entered guilty pleas shortly after the jury had been sworn in.

Beecham, a drug user who has previous convictions for shoplifting, had also been a driver for Saleh, and acted as a scout in a supermarket shortly before Mr Hassan was kidnapped by the gang.

Judge Moss said: “You were present when the torture began but there is no evidence you actually participated in it and I accept you withdrew in some disgust saying that it had gone too far. Whilst that is some mitigation you did nothing to prevent it continuing.”

Beecham, wearing a dark top and trousers, was jailed for eight years for conspiracy to kidnap, and seven years for false imprisonment to run concurrently.

He will serve at least half his sentence.

Mathew Hempel, 36, of West Road in Chessington, and who at the time lived at the flat in Weybridge where Mr Hassan was held, also pleaded guilty to false imprisonment shortly after the jury were sworn in.

He had previously been jailed in 2002 for two years and three months for dealing heroin.

Sentencing Hempel to five years imprisonment, Judge Moss said: “You knew Abdul was detained against his will and personally struck that boy at least one blow for daring to steal from your home.”

Saleh was jailed for 10 years and six months for conspiracy to kidnap and nine years for false imprisonment to run concurrently.

He was given two more years for various drug and driving offences.

Agon Metrama, 21, of Garlinge Road in Kilburn, who was described by Judge Moss as “the apple of your parents’ eye” and a “promising athlete”, was found not guilty of conspiracy to kidnap by a jury but was sentenced to four years and six months in jail for false imprisonment.