by An­na-Lisa Paul

A St Joseph man who was kid­napped by four masked men from his bed­room dur­ing the wee hours of Au­gust 2, was lat­er re­leased af­ter the “boss” ad­mit­ted the wrong man had been snatched.

The 28-year-old vic­tim told po­lice he was asleep around 1.15 am, when he was awak­ened by a noise.

As he sat up, he saw four men sur­round­ing the bed.

Dragged to the edge of the mat­tress, he was blind­fold­ed and tak­en out­side to a wait­ing ve­hi­cle.

Af­ter be­ing dri­ven to an un­known lo­ca­tion in east Trinidad where he was strung up, beat­en and tor­tured as they de­mand­ed to know about a par­tic­u­lar sum of mon­ey – the vic­tim was cut down af­ter he kept deny­ing any such knowl­edge.

Af­ter a short while, the kid­nap­pers con­tact­ed the man in charge, fol­low­ing which a video call was placed and the vic­tim’s face was held up to the cam­era.

It was then that the man on the oth­er end said, “That ain't him.”

As the call end­ed, the sus­pects again blind­fold­ed the in­jured vic­tim and placed him in the trunk of the car, be­fore they drove back to Farm Road, St Joseph and left him at the side of the road.