Drug dealers sentenced over rape

The gang tortured and raped a drug dealer in Swindon

Four men convicted over the kidnap and rape of a woman from Swindon have been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.

The woman was abducted on 23 June 2007 by the London-based gang after failing to pay a £1,000 drug debt while acting as a courier for them.

She was driven to a flat in Peckham, east London, where she was attacked.

The court was told that the woman, who sold heroin and crack for the gang in Swindon, was held captive, raped, tortured and threatened.

On 27 February Modele Adenekan, 22, from Goldsmith Road, London; Christopher Vernon, 32 from Parchmore Road, London; Tunasho Chisanga, 23, from Linden Green, London; and Shane Nevins, 24, from Consort Road, London were found guilty of kidnap and conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

Chisanga and Vernon were also found guilty of rape and received two life sentences to run concurrently.

Adenekan was sentenced to 14 years in jail and Nevins to 13 years.

A fifth man, 25-year-old Iffy Ndidi, also from London, was found not guilty of kidnap and not guilty of false imprisonment, but had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

He was sentenced to seven years in jail.

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Drug gang jailed for rape