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Three people who kept an epileptic man prisoner in a garden shed in Gloucestershire for six weeks have been jailed at Bristol Crown Court. | Three people who kept an epileptic man prisoner in a garden shed in Gloucestershire for six weeks have been jailed at Bristol Crown Court. |
Kevin Davies, 29, was found dead by paramedics at a house in Badgers Way, Bream on 26 September 2006. | Kevin Davies, 29, was found dead by paramedics at a house in Badgers Way, Bream on 26 September 2006. |
Amanda Baggus, who owned the shed, and her boyfriend David Lehane have been sentenced to 10 years in prison. | Amanda Baggus, who owned the shed, and her boyfriend David Lehane have been sentenced to 10 years in prison. |
Scott Andrews, who helped Baggus and Lehane keep Mr Davies prisoner, was sentenced to nine years. | Scott Andrews, who helped Baggus and Lehane keep Mr Davies prisoner, was sentenced to nine years. |
In her diary Baggus wrote about the punishments they inflicted on Kevin Davies and noted his cries for help. | |
Sentencing the three, the judge at Bristol Crown Court said: "Kevin Davies had been a vulnerable young man, gullible and naive". | |
He also told the three that what they had done was "truely appalling and utterly inhumane." |