A TEACHER says his life was ruined by two men who tortured him in his home and threatened to kill him, claiming there was a "£5m price tag on his head".
Adam Ykhlef, 24, suffered lasting psychological damage when Jamie McLoughlin – who had been released from prison just days earlier – and another man burst into his flat on May 11, Hull Crown Court heard.
He was so terrified he considered leaping from the fourth-floor flat in The Crescent, Bridlington, which is in a block owned by his father.
Mr Ykhlef has felt unable to return to his home since, suffers flashbacks, and says he is now "a shadow of his former self".
McLoughlin, 22, and his accomplice, who has not been identified but was between 6ft 1in and 6ft 3in, appeared to be "under the influence of drugs" and punched Mr Ykhlef back into the flat when he opened the door at 6.30pm.
Forcing the teacher onto his bed, the pair claimed they were "professional killers from London" and demanded money.
Mr Ykhlef was able to scrape together £35, but they demanded more – first a cheque for £5,000 and then £50,000 in cash, Hull Crown Court heard.
McLoughlin asked Mr Ykhlef where he was born, to which he replied: "Scarborough."
McLoughlin said: "No you weren't. You're a P**i, like your dad, and I hate you."
The intruders told Mr Ykhlef to get under the duvet, and then, seeing a photograph of his daughter, the second man told him to look at it, saying it was "the last time he would see her", Stephen Welch, prosecuting, said.
He then told McLoughlin to "hand him the gun", although no gun was ever seen.
McLoughlin told Mr Ykhlef he was a traveller and could make him "disappear".
The second man told McLoughlin to bring a knife from the kitchen, but he returned instead with a bottle of whisky, which was used to jab the teacher in the eye.
The men also said they were going to "scratch out his eyes" and "tie him up and burn him", Mr Welch said.
Mr Ykhlef was repeatedly punched, headbutted after a "countdown from five" (seconds) and the second man kicked him twice in the head, once after a running jump.
The second man also told Mr Ykhlef he had just got out of prison and was going to give him "a taste of prison life" by having sex with him.
He was then ordered to sit on the toilet and the second man pulled his tracksuit bottoms down and told him to perform a sex act on him, which he refused.
McLoughlin left the flat, stealing the £35 and Mr Ykhlef's laptop, iPod, and mobile phone, items he immediately tried to sell in the street.
Mr Ykhlef then ran out, barefoot, wearing only a jumper and shorts.
Seeing him, McLoughlin dropped the goods and gave chase, although he was unable to catch him.
None of the items stolen, which were worth £350, were recovered.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Ykhlef said although his physical injuries had healed, he was deeply traumatised by the incident.
McLoughlin, of Fairfield Road, Bridlington, admitted robbery.
The court heard he had 31 previous convictions, including a violent street robbery in 2012, for which he was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders institution.
Richard Thompson, for McLoughlin, said he had been in trouble since the age of 13 and made his first court appearance at 14.
Mr Thompson said: "Clearly, something went wrong in his childhood. It might not have been his own fault."
Judge Graham Robinson noted the findings of a pre-sentence report, which said McLoughlin posed a "high risk of serious harm to members of the public", and sentenced him to eight years in jail.
The judge also imposed an extended period of licence of three years, meaning if McLoughlin is released halfway through his sentence he will be on licence for seven years.
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