Monday, September 5, 2011

Five members of a black gang who stripped a 16-year-old girl in a park then posted the pictures on Facebook have been jailed for a total of 18 and a half years

The nude photographs were taken by Victoria Beckford, 27, and Siobhan Vaughan, 29, who added them to the teenager's profile page on the social networking website. The shocking images, taken in Crystal Palace park, south London, were spotted by friends and family who contacted the girl's mother. As the black thugs were sentenced it emerged that the girl had tried to kill herself two days after she was abducted and subjected to the humiliating and degrading ordeal. Inner London Crown Court heard that she then spent two months recovering in the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, south-east London. Victoria Beckford, 27, and Siobhan Vaughan, 29, who took the shocking images, were both jailed for four years. Fellow gang members Daniello Johnson and Antonio Williams, both 19, were also sentenced to four years each while Sian Roberts, 24, was caged for two and a half years. The five defendants were convicted of false imprisonment in July 2011 after a three-week trial. The victim had been taken hostage by the gang as punishment for an unpaid £50 debt. She was locked in a cupboard, punched and whipped with a leather belt during the ordeal on August 14 2010, before being taken to the park and stripped.

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