'I thought he was going to kill me': Terrified kidnap victim was bundled into car and told 'no-one will know'
“He was telling me ‘you are going to die. No-one is going to know’”
A "terrified" man was repeatedly told he was going to die after being attacked in his Black Country home and kidnapped.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that the victim was so scared he was shouting "he is going to kill me" when he was struck by Damian Cash, who recruited Damian Mason to help him in the enterprise.
Cash was charged with kidnap, harassment and assault following three incidents involving three different victims in the Rowley Regis area in 2024.
The victim told officers: “There was a knock at the door and when I opened it I saw Damian Cash and Damian Mason at the door wearing masks. I knew them and recognised who they were. I was punched in the face and knocked to the floor.
“Cash told Mason to lock the door to prevent me from going outside. I was being hit.
“I was terrified for my life and I was shouting ‘he is going to kill me’. He was telling me ‘you are going to die. No-one is going to know.’”
Cash also ordered him to put on a coat and added that he had a gun and would kill him, the court heard.
The court heard that Mason, of Gilbert Avenue, Oldbury, was clearly present to support his co-defendant, made threats and locked the door before helping to bundle the victim against his will into a Vauxhall Astra. The man described how he was driven to a car park where he was told to use wet wipes to clean himself up before being dropped off near his home.
He also said Cash warned him not to call the police, and when officers arrived the victim claimed he had been in a fight.
The man, who suffered bruising to his eye and jaw, then fled to Yorkshire with his family where he attended accident & emergency and revealed the truth of what happened.
Officers investigating the complaint later recovered the bloodstained wipes from the car park.
The victim told the court that the incident had turned his life “upside down”.
“I had to move away. I didn’t feel safe. I lost my job. I had recurring nightmares.
“I was living in non-stop fear that Damian Cash or his associates would come and hurt me.”
In mitigation the court was told that Cash, 37, had taken the blame for the “unpleasant and deeply unattractive offences”.
The charges related to three separate victims and three separate incidents which included two women, who knew Cash, being harassed.
Having admitted the offences Cash, of no fixed address, was jailed for five years and seven months. For kidnap Mason, 42, was jailed for four years and six months.