LONDON: An NRI estate agent who kidnapped and tortured her boss for seven hours after she was sacked was jailed for ten years. Ambreen Gul, 23, recruited another sacked colleague Mukshud Ali and two others to carry out the plan and extort 200,000 pounds from Waqas Malik.

The London's Southwark Crown Court also sentenced Ali to seven years and nine months in prison, while IT student Quasim Ahmed was handed down eights years in jail. Former Arsenal under-17 player Shakib Chowdhury, 19, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years.

"You were involved in this wicked, premeditated and brutal plan to lure Malik to a flat where he was beaten up and tied to a chair with his eyes and mouth bound," Judge Deborah Taylor told them. "These are serious and ugly crimes and it is chilling to find those as young as you involved in them," she said.

Gul was so furious when she was fired that she recruited three others to make her former employer 48-year-old Waqas Malik pay. She lured Malik to her flat, where the unsuspecting businessman was kicked, punched and pistol whipped repeatedly.

During seven hours of suffering one of his captors stood on his head, while another warned he would never see his family again unless he raised 200,000 pounds ransom. He was told failure would result in the executions of both himself and his 13-year-old son. Having made several phone calls to his wife, the captors gave Malik a powerful sedative and victim fell into a coma.

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