Gang dressed as police officers to kidnap and attack two men

Three men from Rochdale admitted being part of a gang that dressed up as police officers to kidnap and attack two Blackburn men.

Farhan Aslam, 19, Wayne Farrell, 29, and Carl Singleton, 37, all from Rochdale pleaded guilty to abducting Naeem Mohammed, 19, and his friend Salim Mulla, 20, from   Shadsworth last December.

The other two members of the gang were Mohammed Shaikh, 22, of June Street, Blackburn, Nailem Abbas, 26, of Queen’s Road, Blackburn.

Dressed in police stab vests and armed with coshes, swords and a sledge hammer, the gang handcuffed the friends who had been smoking cannabis in their car, and bundled them into a Vauxhall Meriva, police said.

The gang, who then drove the friends around Blackburn, Haslingden and Rochdale for two hours attacking them and causing extensive bruising and swelling to their bodies, admitted two charges of conspiracy to kidnap at Preston Crown Court.

The gang members were remanded in custody until sentencing on 24 August.