Egidijus Savickas, Dovydas Smilginis, Modestas Stoskus and Mohammed Nasar were sentenced at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court

Savickas, 29, of Bootle, Merseyside, and Smilginis, 34, of London, were found guilty of two counts of kidnapping, causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, having an article with a blade or point and having an offensive weapon following a trial at the same court in September 2023.

They were both jailed for 14 years’ imprisonment for GBH with intent involving one of the victims, and given concurrent sentences of 13 years for kidnapping the same victim, eight years for kidnapping the second victim, 15 months for assaulting the second victim, 18 months for possession of a knife and nine months for possession of a baseball bat.

Stoskus, 32, of Dudley, and Mohammed Nasar, 40, of Birmingham, pleaded guilty to the same offences as the other at the start of a trial in July 2023.

Stoskus was jailed for 13 years and six months for GBH with intent involving one of the victims, and given concurrent sentences of 11 years and eight months for kidnapping the same victim, seven years and two months for kidnapping the second victim, 13 months for assaulting the second victim, 16 months for possession of a knife and 35 weeks for possession of a baseball bat.

Nasar was jailed for 12 years and seven months for GBH with intent involving one of the victims, and given concurrent sentences of 11 years and eight months for kidnapping the same victim, seven years and two months for kidnapping the second victim, 13 months for assaulting the second victim, 16 months for possession of a knife and 35 weeks for possession of a baseball bat.