A 19-YEAR-OLD man who tried to blackmail his brothers out of £3,000 by falsely claiming he had been kidnapped has been jailed for a total of two years.
Tamjeed Ali had denied blackmailing his brothers Forhad and Tanveer between January 22 and January 25, and a further charge of perverting the course of justice.
He was found guilty of all three charges following a trial at Nottingham Crown Court last month.
Ali, 19, of Cromwell Street, Radford, was yesterday jailed for 18 months for one blackmail charge, and 18 months concurrently for the other. He also received a six-month jail term for the perverting the course of justice charge, to be served consecutively to the blackmail offence.
The court had heard evidence Forhad Ali received a telephone call from a man saying they had his brother and he had five to ten minutes to raise the cash.
A few hours later, Forhad Ali received another call to say if he did not pay he would be collecting his brother from the River Trent.
Two other men, Perry Mason, 22, of Cromwell Street, Radford, and Kieron Martt, 22, of Raleigh Street, Radford, admitted their part in the blackmail at a previous hearing.
Mason was jailed for 20 months for one blackmail charge, and handed a 20-month jail term for the other to run concurrently.
Martt was sentenced to 15 months in prison for one blackmail charge, with a 15-month jail term for the other also to run concurrently.
