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| Bus driver jailed over kidnapping colleague on single decker A bus driver has been jailed for two and a half years for the kidnap of a workmate he suspected of having an affair with his wife. Kevin Garfoot, 48, and a 17-year-old youth clambered aboard Sean Stonehouse's single-decker at their depot in Nottingham in August of last year. The pair, armed with a knife and a gun, ordered Mr Stonehouse, 40, to head into the countryside, Nottingham Crown Court was told. Then he was forced to write a note to Garfoot's estranged wife Christine ending the alleged affair. He was also instructed to send a mobile phone text message confession to his own wife Dawn. Later the kidnappers met accomplice, Andrew Coulson, 23, and the trio bundled Mr Stonehouse into a car and drove him to a house where he was bound and gagged. He was then driven to railway sidings and marched 500 yards into woodland, the court was told. He was left tied to a ladder in a sewer, but managed to free himself and ran to a pub to call police. Garfoot, of Fulwood Crescent, and Coulson, of Welstead Crescent - both in Aspley, Notts - admitted kidnap, as did the youth, who cannot be identified. The youth was earlier sentenced to 18 months in a detention centre while Coulson was jailed for 15 months. Sentencing Garfoot, Judge Michael Stokes QC, said: "This was an extremely serious offence for which you were primarily responsible. It is a seriously aggravating feature that you induced a youth to commit this offence with you." 28th January 2002 |
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