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Man fakes own kidnapping so he could go drinking with his friends

He was charged with wasting police time and resources.

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He told her that he had been kidnapped and that he was going to be tortured unless she transferred all the money she had into the kidnappers’ bank account.

Joking

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At first, the woman thought he was joking, but he sounded really scared, and there were other men shouting in the background, threatening to cut off Leigh’s legs, and pour hot water on him.

So she complied, but she also called the police.

“At first, I just thought he was winding me up,” 35-year-old Zoe said. “But he sounded really scared. The phone went dead and then it rang again.

Shouting

I could hear men shouting in the background, threatening to break Leigh’s legs and throw boiling water over him. They were threatening to mutilate him, cut off his genitals, and I was panic-stricken.”

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Leigh kept screaming and begging his girlfriend, who was 35 weeks pregnant at the time, to comply with the kidnappers demands, so she transferred all the money she had – Sh 8,000 – in the provided bank account, before alerting the authorities.

A helicopter and a trained hostage negotiator were called in for what sounded like a complicated situation, but no one called again until next morning, when Leigh himself came home like nothing had ever happened.

Helicopter

Police were waiting for him, and after asking him a few questions, they arrested him for wasting police time and resources.

At first, the 45-year-old kept lying about what had really happened, but after being shown video evidence of himself and two friends leaving a shop and carrying booze, he confessed to making up the whole kidnapping thing.

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