VirajMashru21, blackmailed his devoted father for cutting off his allowance by faking his abduction.
Virajsaccomplices demanded a ‘ransom’ of £614,000 gold bullion from the wealthy businessmanRajendra who cut his £500-a-week allowance.
Virajtold his tormented father his kidnappers had threatened to rape him
The student, 21, was actually hiding out at a hotel in north LondonMit Patel, 26, told the traumatized businessman he had kidnapped Kenyan-born Mashru, and that unless the ransom was paid he would be assaulted and his fingers cut off, he was working with a third accomplice, 31-year-old Marcus Bennett, Patel made a series of calls to Mr Mashru threatening to kill his son, in order to lure him from Kenya to London.
The shocking plan was created after Virajs father was fed-up with sons partying and extravagant spending, had cut off his monthly allowance of £2,000, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Caroline Haughey said: ‘Mr Mashru junior had been living in the UK for some time, in theory continuing his studies.
‘His entire existence in the UK was funded by his family in Kenya. However recently the relationship cooled between Virajand his father to the extent his father, when Rajendra stopped providing him with money.
They were all caught by police and expressed relief that the plot had been over.
Judge Alastair McCreath said: “You were a student in this country being supported generously by your father to the tune £2000 a month.Almost every single student in this country would give their eye teeth to be supported as kindly as that.But you lived with considerable extravagance and spent that and more and when your father firmly and properly removed your money to teach you the lessons that you had to learn, instead of tempering your expenditure you accrued debt.”
The Jude added added he also said that he had reduced Virajs sentence because his father had written a letter to say that he had been forgiven.
Viraj, of Harrow, Middlesex, admitted one count of conspiracy to blackmail and was jailed for three years and nine months.
Bennett of St John’s Wood, north west London admitted the same charge and was sentenced to 12 months in jail.
