A heroin addict on trial over the kidnap and torture of a teenager in Weybridge has previously been convicted of kidnapping a man and tying him up in the boot of a car.

Abdul Hassan, 18, from Ashford, was allegedly bundled into a car by four members of a drugs gang in Ashford High Street on January 17 this year after he stole drugs, cash and a phone from one of them, before being driven to 3 Gateway, Weybridge, and tortured with lighters and needles, Guildford Crown Court was told.

The jury heard how members of the gang had punched and stripped Mr Hassan, before burning his hands with lighters and stabbing him with syringes that, he was led to believe, contained heroin.

Andrew Moore, 41, of Barnfield Gardens in Kingston, is charged with conspiracy to kidnap and false imprisonment, along with Agon Metrama, 21, of Garlinge Road, Kilburn.

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Three other people have entered guilty pleas, while one person is still at large.

Reading from a statement of agreed facts at Guildford Crown Court today, prosecutor Abigail Husbands said Moore had been convicted of kidnapping at Reading Crown Court on February 23, 2005.

She told jurors: “Mr Moore was one of two men who pushed a man to the floor and drove him to another location. He was bound with cable ties. He was then driven to another location where he managed to escape.”

Mr Moore was sentenced to 10 years for the kidnap and robbery of businessman Rajnikant Thakrar.

But Mr Moore today denied having visited Ashford or Weybridge on January 17. Instead, he said, he had spent the day and evening with a woman with whom he was having an affair.

Mr Moore, who is married, told jurors he had met with other members of the gang that morning in one of their houses to buy drugs.

He said: “They was on about a phone being stolen. Everybody knew what this person had done prior to this.

“I was doing what I was doing and as far as I was aware I thought they were just going to beat someone up.”

Mr Moore added that only one member of the gang knew about his previous conviction for kidnapping, and denied offering or being asked for his help in Mr Hassan’s kidnap.

He said: “I know people were coming down [to the house] to do drugs, I didn’t know what was going to be happening that day.”

He said he left the house after a while and was then driven to the Charrington Bowl in Tolworth, where was picked up by his lover. The pair then went to Surbiton Raceway until the early hours of January 18, before heading to her house and cycling home.

Mr Moore, who has been a drug addict for the last 15 years, said he knew members of the group through drug dealing and regularly drove cars for the gang until ringleader Dalmer Saleh found out that he was partially blind.

He lost sight in his right eye last year after an accident involving a tent pole.

A witness in the trial claimed Mr Moore was the driver in the kidnapping of Mr Hassan.

Mr Moore was arrested on January 27 and Mr Metrama the following day, the other alleged gang members having been arrested on January 18.

Scott Beecham, 39, of Tolworth Rise, and Saleh, 24, of Manchester Drive, Ladbroke Grove, both entered guilty pleas on July 20 to charges of conspiracy to kidnap and false imprisonment.

Mathew Hempel, 36, of West Road in Chessington, who lived at the flat in Weybridge with his girlfriend Kelly Richardson, entered a guilty plea to false imprisonment on July 20.

Miss Richardson, 33, of Gateway, Weybridge, was acquitted of two counts of witness or juror intimidation on July 20.

The trial continues.