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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.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". They also made a hostage-style video of him in which they forced him to say he was being "fed perfectly".
He also told the three that what they had done was "truely appalling and utterly inhumane." In fact he was being fed only scraps.
"The circumstances as a whole are extraordinary and the video you might expect to see come out of the Middle East but certainly not the Forest of Dean," said Det Chief Insp Geoff Brookes of Gloucestershire Police.
'Truly appalling'
Originally the trio was charged with murder but the charge was dropped after experts ruled it was impossible to say whether Mr Davies' epilepsy could have contributed to his death.
Lehane, 35, and Baggus, 26, both from Badgers Way, and Andrews, 27, of Hathaway Close, Gloucester, all pleaded guilty in May to false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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 "truly appalling and utterly inhumane."