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Pensioners torture financial adviser

24/Jun/2009

news.com.au

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A FINANCIAL adviser has barely escaped with his life after being beaten and held hostage for four days ... by a gang of old-age pensioners.

American James Amburn was beaten until his ribs broke, burnt with cigarettes and hit with a Zimmer frame by the gang of five pensioners furious that he’d lost their £2 million ($4.1 million) savings.

Living in Germany, Mr Amburn was ambushed as he left a cafe and driven in the boot of an Audi to a house, where he was dumped in a cellar.

In four days, the pensioners fed him just two bowls of soup, burned him with cigarettes and threatened to kill him “again and again”, angry that he had invested their money in a failed Florida property scheme.

The “Furious Five” as they have been dubbed, face 15-year sentences for hostage-taking and torture.

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Phill Avery

25/07/2009

The Furious Five should be given a medal for self restraint - He could have been maimed for life.

Jonathan

25/06/2009

A bad financial planner should be punished for his duty. Lucky for him to escape. He should be thrown out of job .

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