Two thugs who helped a sadistic schoolboy torture

Two thugs who helped a sadistic schoolboy torture a school
bully have been jailed by an Old Bailey judge.

The 13-year old boy carved his initials in the victim’s back

and later clumps of the 14-year-old’s hair were torn out to keep
as a sick trophy.

At the end of his three hour ordeal the boy was dumped
almost naked outside his school as pupils flooded out at the end
of the day.

Liakot Miah, 18, was sent to a young offenders centre for 18
months for his part in the attack and Nazrul Islam, 20, was sent

to a similar institution for two years.

The 13-year old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will
be sentenced on Monday.

The court heard that the victim, from Poplar, was attacked
because he hit Islam’s brother over the head with a hammer.

His nightmare began at lunchtime of March 17 this year when
14-year-old was grabbed in a Bow street and bundled into Islam’s
car, said prosecutor Brian Warner.

Miah and the 13-year-old slapped the terrified teenager
around the face as Islam drove them to a dirt track in Epping
Forest.

He was thrown out of the car then Miah whipped him across
the back with his studded belt.

The victim was pulled to the floor and the 13-year-old
repeatedly kicked him in the stomach.

He managed to struggle to his feet and tried to escape but
was weakened by several days of fasting for a religious festival
and only got as far as a nearby road.

The boy tried to flag down a passing motorist but no one
stopped and the trio dragged him back to the lane.

He was punched in the jaw, pulled to the ground and again
the 13-year-old kicked him in the stomach.

The victim lapsed into unconsciouness but when he came round
he was still being kicked.

The thugs dragged him back into the car and drove off to
wards Bow, punching him at random as they went.

Then the 13-year-old demanded he take off his clothes and
stripped him when he refused.

Cigarettes were stubbed out on the back of his neck and his
chest.

The 13-year-old then took out a knife and carved a six inch
intial in the victim’s back.

Clumps of his hair were torn from his scalp.

Islam told the
battered victim that he (Islam) had kept his wounded brother’s
bloodstaind shirt as a reminder of the attack he allegedly suf
fered at the schoolboy’s hands.

‘Islam told him (the schoolboy) he would keep the hair with
the shirt,’ said counsel.

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The victim was finally taken to his school and dumped
outside in his underpants just as the other pupils were leaving.

The terrified teenager ran all the way home.

The 13-year-old admitted false imprisoment and unlawful
wounding.

Jobless Miah of Butler House, Burdett Road, Poplar con
fessed to false imprisoment and assault occasioning actual
bodily harm.

Chef Islam, of Tower Street, Brightlingsea, Essex
pleaded guilty to kidnapping and false imprisoment.

Mr Jeremy Lynn, defending the 13-year old claimed his beha
viour was influenced by his squalid environment on a council
estate near Gillender Street, Bow.

‘You wonder how anyone could live there.

It is one of the
most sqaulid places that anyone could live.

It is a horrible

place,’ claimed counsel.

Mr Lynn added: ‘He never really realised what he was doing
was going to end with him in court.

‘
Judge Bruce Laughland, QC, initially sentenced the 13-year
old to three months in a young offenders centre – one month
short of what he believed was the maximum term for a boy of that
age.

But a short while later he was told he did not have the power
to impose a custodial sentence on such a young offender (in the
charges he faced) and the case was adjourned until today (Thurs).

But this morning sentence was further postponed after the the
boy fell sick.

For Miah, defence counsel Miss Kamala Ramdeen said: ‘He
realises what he did was sadistic and and he is very sorry.

‘

Mr John Black, defending Islam said such revenge attacks were
accepted in Bangladeshi culture.

‘These boys were doing what they saw their parents doing –
sorting out their problems outside the law.

‘
Passing sentence the judge told the trio: ‘You have each

brought disgrace upon yourselves and perhaps upon your families.

‘This was a revolting attack in which all three of you
engaged and there is no place in any civilised and democratic
society for such attacks where the law, as is it does in this
country, provides remedies for justified grievances.

‘It was made the worse because it was a planned attack.

It

was made the worse by the fact the victim was only 14.

‘It seems to me to be in the public interest to demontstate
the public’s revulfsion for this sort of crime and its condemna

tion of it.

‘I do pay regard to the desperate circumstances in which you
have all been growing up,’ the judge added.

‘People in desperate circumstances do need and should depend
on, the protection of the law.

‘
ENDS