An estate agent who plotted revenge against her former boss was jailed for 10 years yesterday.

Ambreen Gul, 23, was so enraged when she was fired, that she hired two heavies and another former employee to kidnap and torture her ex boss.

Seven hours torture

Waqas Malik, 48, was lured to her apartment, where he was tortured, beaten and pistol whipped for seven hours. One of the kidnappers even stood on his head.

Motivated by "revenge" and "greed" she and the gang threatened to execute Malik and his son unless they coughed up a £200,000 ransom.

Gang panicked

They administered a powerful sedative to their victim and ordered the man to phoned his wife in a desperate attempt to get the cash.

Malik fell ill and the gang panicked, dumping the blindfolded boss at his home telling his wife he was drunk and had sexually assaulted Gul.

Rushed to hospital, doctors found marks on his wrists and cuts and bruises all over his face.

Heavy sentences

She and the other three plotters were all found guilty or admitted false imprisonment, wounding with intent, blackmail, having an imitation firearm with intent, theft and administering a "poison or noxious substance" with intent.

Gul, the mastermind of the kidnapping, received the heaviest sentence of 10 years. Monkshood Ali, 18, from Essex, who had also been sacked, was sentenced to seven years nine months in a young offenders' institution.

Quasim Ahmed, 21, of Barking, was jailed for eight years, and former West Ham under-17s footballer Shakib Chowdhury, 20, from Surbiton, Surrey, was sent to a YOI for eight-and-a-half years.

Judge Deborah Taylor told Gul:

"You have shown little remorse and you have consistently shown yourself as dishonest and manipulative, prepared to do and say anything to save yourself, even writing to Mr Malik in attempting to get him to change his mind about pursuing this case."