Gang jailed for kidnapping British teenager and ordering her family to send ransom to Ghana

Published: 7:30AM GMT 02 March 2010

The victim, a 17-year-old lady from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, was reported to have been taken by the squad in autumn 2008.

Her father told military final were being done for income to be eliminated to a squad part of in the West African country.

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Armed military liberated the teen from an residence in north London on Oct 22, 2008 and 3 men from London were arrested at or nearby the property.

David Bonsouw, 36, from Morley Avenue, Enfield; Charles El Mawas, 20, from Hallfield Estate, Westminster; and Kwadwo Agyei, 24, from Tower Gardens Road, Tottenham, were charged with kidnap.

The fourth man, Dwight Baker, 26, additionally from Morley Avenue, was arrested in London early last year.

All 4 pleaded guilty to charges of fake imprisonment, extort and swindling to import cocaine.

Bonsouw, El Mawas and Agyei were locked up for fourteen years each and Baker was locked up for five years at St Albans Crown Court on Friday, Hertfordshire Police said.

The box was brought after Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit officers trafficked to Ghana to accumulate justification and comprehension on the gang.

The plant was told she would not face charge for her impasse with the gang, Hertfordshire Crown Prosecution Service said.

District climax prosecutor Tamsyn Wilcox welcomed the sentences.

She said: ""This was a formidable box that compulsory the make use of of new powers to encounter with the plant at the opening to explain the inlet and border of her impasse in the swindling to move drug to the UK.""

She added: ""(These sentences) send out a clever summary to those who experience in critical and organized crime travelling general bounds that CPS Hertfordshire prosecutes these sorts of box robustly.""