Blackmail gang threatened to cut off American tourist’s fingers

Five gang members who abducted an American tourist in a ‘honeytrap’ sting and demanded £50,000 from his terrified relatives were jailed for more than 30 years. Ayub Ali, from San Diego, California, was ‘lured’ to an Airbnb in Wembley on 4 October last year and forced into a white Mercedes by armed men who threatened to ‘stab him and cut off his fingers’. Aton Okuefuna, 21, Ayoub Salad, 20, Nathaniel Mebrathu, 20, and Bushra Ahmed, 20, earlier admitted blackmail and…