DISABLED TEENAGER WAS TORTURED AND HAD BOILING WATER THROWN OVER HIM IN BESTWOOD KITCHEN
A disabled teenager was forced to perform duties as a waiter and sing "Barbie Girl" as a tie was pulled tighter around his neck and boiling water repeatedly poured over his naked body.The victim was made to perform duties as a waiter, then lower his boxer shorts, and the tie was pulled tighter around his neck as he was directed to sing "Barbie Girl" by Aqua.
Whelpton, of Danes Close, Arnold, put a knife to his throat and told him to sing along.
The teenager suffered four percent burns to his body - one percent of which were described as deep burns - and he had bruising and cuts.
"He became a toy," said Gareth Gimson, prosecuting.
"A plaything to be humiliated at will by these men and, the Crown would submit, tortured.
"This was for fun.
He was ridiculed, accused of being a snitch and a grass and a thief.
"The Crown submit it was all nonsense; a pretext for a vicious and quite cruel act on this young man." The judge secretary Coupland told him in the dock: "I have no hesitation in deciding you are dangerous." Whelpton sent a Facebook message to a girl and then made a 50-second video call of the teenager stood in his boxer shorts in a small cluttered kitchen, then crouched in a corner.
The girl said he "looked like he had been beaten up".
Whelpton's voice could be heard saying "get down and stay down".
He told the girl "this is what happens when you grass".
The victim could be heard saying "no, please stop" and the contents of a steaming kettle were emptied over him as he was screaming and crying.
Whelpton sent her a further message to the girl, referring to someone called Matt, saying "tell Matt, he's next".
