Two drug addicts have been jailed for imprisoning and beating a man at Braybrook.
Irko Abdala, 30, and Kim Janes, 38, were sentenced to 12 months and four months jail respectively, for intentionally causing injury to Ranjip Singh after falsely imprisoning him in a Melton Street residence on December 5, 2014.
A sentencing hearing last month heard that Singh was grabbed by what he described as ‘‘a black man” and pushed into the unit while he was walking along Melton Street about 8pm. He said he was pushed to the ground in the bathroom, and kicked and punched by the man and another person he described as “a thin white woman”.
Singh said both were armed with knives.
He said he was stripped of his clothes and had a gold neck chain and wallet taken. He also claimed to have been hit repeatedly over the head with a shovel by the woman.
Singh was allowed to leave about 9pm. He said he went to a nearby house on Melton Street where the occupant, a nurse, treated him for lacerations to his head, wrist and chest.
Abdala and Janes were arrested three days later.
Judge Hampel said the jury did not accept Janes’ testimony at an earlier trial that the incident began after Singh came to the unit looking for a sex worker.
“I treat this … as an unplanned, opportunistic, spontaneous and apparently motiveless attack of some viciousness, which fortunately did not result in serious harm to Mr Singh,” he said. “And a relatively short, but no doubt terrifying, deprivation of liberty of a drunk and vulnerable man in unfamiliar surroundings.
“Each of you was caught up in a cycle of drug abuse over the time of the offending. Whilst that is no mitigator, it may explain why this otherwise apparently motiveless attack occurred.”
Abdala and Janes will also serve community corrections orders of 12 months and 20 months respectively.
