Traveller convicted of blackmail plot

A gang member has been convicted of his involvement in a blackmail plot in which two brothers were told they would be shot if a £300,000 ransom was not paid. The victims, who cannot be named, were blindfolded and warned they would have their brains splattered ‘all over the road’ while held at a caravan site at Smithy Fen, Cambridgeshire. They were fed sleeping tablets, made to wash with Dettol spray and forced to call their relatives trying to get…

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