Boys strip ordeal

The full horror of an attack in which brothers aged 10 and 11 beat, tortured and sexually assaulted a pair of younger children emerged for the first time today as a court viewed gruesome mobile phone video footage showing part of the assault. Sheffield crown court heard a long and often deeply distressing account of the events in April last year, as it began a three-day sentencing exercise presided over by Mr Justice Keith. He was told the brothers kicked and punched their victims, stamping on their heads and faces, hit them with bricks and rocks and stabbed them with sticks. Both boys were throttled and repeatedly threatened with death, and made to perform a series of humiliating acts, some of them sexual. The attack on a Saturday morning on the edge of Edlington, a former pit village near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, left the older boy close to death. He was only saved when the younger boy, his nephew, staggered to nearby houses, also covered in blood.

Five members of a gang that kidnapped a boy, 16, and forced him to strip naked before filming the violent and humiliating ordeal have been jailed. Drill music artist Isaac Donkoh, 22, who led the group and is the only member old enough to be identified, was sentenced to 12 years in jail at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London. Donkoh enlisted the help of one of the other defendants, who knew the victim, to lure him to meet them in Barking on August 2, He was threatened with a machete and one of the defendants put two plastic bags over his head, secured with an elastic band. Donkoh and the other youngsters went on to hit him with a metal pole over his face, legs and arms.

Last weekend one of the nation's largest and most popular music festivals was held, with more than 81, people in attendance over the two days. Of those thousands attending Stereosonic at the Sydney Showgrounds, were stopped by police, taken into a booth, stripped down and searched for drugs by officers. Danny, 27, was one of those people. Except he had no drugs on him, is not a drug taker, and had not come into contact with any illegal substances.

By Jamie Schram. A knife-wielding pervert abducted a year-old Staten Island boy, then handcuffed him to a tree yesterday, law-enforcement sources said. Although the teen claimed to be the victim of a random attack, cops were looking into the possibility that his assailant was someone he met on the Internet, sources told The Post.