Fake kidnapping of drug dealer’s mate

A blackmail gang staged a fake kidnapping to try and extort £10,000 from a drug dealer, a court heard. Clifford Augustin, 31, and Givanni Maraj, 18, allegedly burst into Mohammed Sale Mohammed’s Maida Vale flat and bundled out Ayoub Malik, 27, the dealer’s friend and client. They grabbed a Louis Vuitton rucksack, a Rolex, a Gucci watch, a PlayStation 4, a bracelet, an iPhone and £285, jurors heard. ‘Over the course of that evening and the next morning they demanded…