Businessman held at gunpoint by blackmailers

Two prolific criminals who held a businessman at gunpoint in his dressing gown and slippers while demanding cash from his family were jailed for a total of 13 and a half years. Aqeel Smith, 20, and Carlos Buente, 38, threatened phone dealer Ibar Muhammad with a replica Beretta air pistol and poked a knife at his head during a two hour ordeal. Mr Muhammad was dragged into their Ford Focus and driven around east London while his captors demanded £5,000…