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A Chinese gang member has been found guilty of kidnapping a wealthy businessman from a golf course and trapping him in a cage.
Tianfu Guo, 35, was found guilty today at St Albans Crown Court for the part he played in Dylan Huang's terrifying 30-hour ordeal.
Mr Huang was playing golf with his PA and two other women at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire when five men jumped out of a car and rushed at him.
He was assaulted and bundled into a black Audi Q7 near the seventh hole in broad daylight at gunpoint.
Prosecutor Russell Pyne told the court: 'Mr Huang was taken to a property at Thursley near Guildford in Surrey, where was blindfolded and tape was put over his mouth.
Mr Huang was playing golf with his PA and two other women at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire (pictured)
Mr Huang was assaulted and bundled into a black Audi Q7 near the seventh hole in broad daylight at gunpoint (stock photo)
'He was walked up some spiral stairs before being placed in a cage, where he could not stand up straight.
'He was given food, but was not allowed out to use the lavatory.
A ransom of 15 million US dollars in bitcoin was demanded.'
In a recorded interview with the police, Mr Huang who lives in Mill Hill, north London and Singapore, said he tried very hard to resist but was hit on the eyes and face.
He said: 'They put me on the back seat of the car with somebody holding my head and the other holding my feet. They put a cover to my head. I couldn't see anything.
'In the car I tried to resist and tried to kick the door. I was told if I tried to do this again they would kill me with a knife straight away.
'They put me down in the space between the back seat and the front seat. They put their feet on my head and my body.'
After an hour and a half the car stopped and he got the impression the men were changing the car number plates.
Speaking through a Mandarin interpreter, he told police they drove for another two hours before he was taken to a house and imprisoned in a cage
He said: 'I couldn't stand up. My legs couldn't stretch straight. My head was covered and they had already put handcuffs on my hands and legs.'
Eventually, the gang released him in a remote area near the Silvermere Golf course in Cobham, Surrey, close to the junction of the M25 and A3. Mr Huang raised the alarm at an isolated house at around 11pm on October 25 last year.
The businessman told the police that no ransom had been paid to the men either by himself or by any of his contacts.
Tianfu Guo, 35, was found guilty today at St Albans Crown Court (pictured) for the part he played in Dylan Huang's terrifying 30-hour ordeal
After being kidnapped at gunpoint, the businessman was take to a location and kept inside a cage (stock photo)
Andrew Scott, the property manager at Brocket Hall, told the jury of 6 men and 6 women he was in a meeting with the managing director when he was alerted by a noise that sounded like somebody was
