These shocking pictures show a sinister sex dungeon where a drugs gang tortured and threatened to rape a rival.
The seedy bunker is littered with brutal bondage gear including a cage under the bed, shackle chairs, manacles, chains, paddles and restraints hanging from the ceiling.
Images of the fetish dungeon were released after a trial which saw a drugs gang jailed for 28 years.
The court heard how victim Gary Jones, 27, was manacled, stripped from the waist down, hit across the buttocks and threatened with rape.
The seedy bunker is littered with brutal bondage gear including a cage under the bed, shackle chairs, manacles, chains, paddles and restraints hanging from the ceiling
He had been driven to the room on an industrial estate in Cornwall after being jumped by four men - Luke Coley, Barry Wright, Mark Reeves and Mark Bird - at his home in Mutley, Devon.
They were joined by a fifth man - former solider James Hamilton-Bing, who rented the unit which contained the sordid sex chamber.
Mr Jones was tortured as the gang demanded £2,500 he was said to owe one of them for cannabis.
Geoff Coombe, prosecuting at Plymouth Crown Court, described how Mr Jones was ambushed at home and beaten with metal tubes from a vacuum cleaner.
A balaclava with taped-up eye holes was put on his head and he was bundled into a stolen car bearing false plates and driven to the chamber in Roche, Cornwall.
There, and still masked, he was manacled with his hands above his head.
Images of the fetish dungeon were released after a trial which saw a drugs gang jailed for 28 years.
Mr Coombe said: 'His trousers and underwear was pulled down and he was slapped a number of times across his bottom.
'He heard a voice whisper in his ear, saying that he was going to rape him and that he liked young boys.
'He was punched a further five or six times to the torso, until he felt that he could not breathe.'
After a two-hour ordeal Mr Jones was finally dumped on the outskirts of St Austell and caught a train home. All the defendants were arrested the next day and later pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
Sentencing, Judge Paul Darlow said: 'The victim was attached to the ceiling and subjected to sexual humiliation. His trousers and underwear were taken down and he was threatened with rape.'
Coley, 28, of St Austell, was jailed for six years and five months.
Reeves 25, of Birmingham, was jailed for five years and seven months.
Anthony Coley (pictured left) and James Hamilton-Bing (right) have been sentenced to six-and-a-half years, and four years 11 months respectively
Mark Bird (left), Mark Reeves (middle) and Barry Wright (right) were also part of the gang that kidnapped 27-year-old Gary Jones
Bird, 28, of St Austell, was jailed for five years and seven months.
Hamilton-Bing, 28, of St Austell, was jailed for four years and 11 months.
Wright, also of Birmingham, was jailed five years and seven months.
The 27-year-old was also sentenced for a robbery in Birmingham and a burglary in St Blazey, where he was part of a gang which plundered motorcycles and equipment worth £22,000.
He was jailed for a consecutive sentence of eight years for the robbery, where he used a hammer as part of a gang who threatened a man in his own home. Six months was added for the burglary.
Police said after the case that the fetish dungeon was properly registered and licensed.
Detective Inspector Mike Cooper said outside court: 'The sentences reflect the amount of work which put in by a small and dedicated team of officers who worked excessive hours, especially in the early weeks of the investigation.
'It show that we will investigate crime regardless of the background of the victim.'
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