A WOMAN with learning difficulties was held hostage and tortured by two women and a teenage boy in a six-hour ordeal, a court heard.
The victim, 21, was repeatedly sexually assaulted, forced to eat glass and excrement, and had bleach and boiling water poured over her after being kidnapped and taken to a bungalow.
Elisha Robinson and Jodie Colvin, both 23, were each jailed for 12 years and nine months at Norwich Crown Court for the sadistic attack.
A 17-year-old boy, who was aged 16 at the time and cannot be named for legal reasons was given six years youth detention.
The court heard how the women were high on cocaine and sent chat messages to encourage each other to subject the 21-year-old victim to ever more extreme and degrading acts.
They also filmed each other on their mobile phones as they tortured the woman and later searched the internet for ways to kill her and dispose of her body.
Judge Andrew Shaw said the victim had been “absolutely terrified” and that footage shown during a trial had been “horrific viewing” for those forced to watch it in court.
He said Robinson and Colvin had shown remorse, but had no mitigation other than having pleaded guilty.
Describing it as “amongst the most serious, unpleasant I have ever dealt with” he told them it was a “terrible, terrifying and horrific attack”.
He added that the victim who was extremely vulnerable with significant learning difficulties, was suffering serious lasting physical and psychological effects.
The judge ordered that they served at least two thirds of their sentences in jail, saying: “How you could have treated another human like this is beyond belief.”
The court was told that the trio had been persecuting the victim over her friendship with a 15-year-old.
After arranging to meet her at a cinema in Norwich on the evening of February 6 last year, she was persuaded to get into a car and was taken to Colvin’s home at Sterlet Grove in Mulbarton, near Norwich.
The gang exchanged messages in which they discussed “knocking her teeth out” and “tying her to a chair and beating her”.
Over the next six and a half hours she was punched, kicked, cut, and violently sexually assaulted with a beer bottle.
Other messages exchanged between her attackers included one saying it would be “fun” to release her and then track her down and beat her further.
They also mocked the victim, saying that she had “got off easy” and they wanted to get acid to pour over her.
Colvin and Robinson eventually “marched her out of the house” with a baseball bat at 5.30am the next morning, and threatened they would kill her mother, brother and dog if she reported the attack.
The court was told that other young children being in the property at the time.
Colvin and Robinson of Attleborough, Norfolk, admitted assault by penetration, causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, false imprisonment, and inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Robinson also admitted administering a poison or noxious substance with intent and two counts of assaulting a police officer.
The boy admitted false imprisonment and inflicting GBH. He was also found guilty of assault by penetration and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent after a trial when the victim was forced to relive her ordeal.
Judge Shaw told him although he had been young and had not actively hurt the victim himself he had been involved in the plan to “trap her and encourage as much pain as possible”.
The victim said in a statement: “I really struggle to get my head around how a human being could treat another human being the way I was treated. And why did it happen to me?
“I can barely sleep as I keep reliving the whole thing and if I do sleep, I wake up terrified from recurring nightmares.
“The knock-on-effect of the assault and the damage it has caused to myself, and my family, will last forever. Nothing will ever be the same again.”
Judge Shaw also praised the actions of a local couple who cared for the victim after she sought help at a nearby house.
He recommended they receive a £500 reward from the High Sheriff of Norwich.
Detective Sergeant Tom Cole of Norfolk Police who led the investigation, said after the hearing: “This was a horrific, calculated and vicious attack over a number of hours.
“The three defendants subjected her to a hugely traumatic event and none of us can imagine how truly awful that experience must have been for her.
“I want to thank her for showing such courage and bravery to tell us what they had done to her. I hope this sentence provides some closure and some justice.”
