A ‘barbaric’ robber who took part in the rape and torture of a young couple in their own home was jailed indefinitely today.
Gavin Gordon, 31, a drug addict who has a string of convictions for violence dating back more than ten years, was part of a gang that raped a 26-year-old woman in her home in Clapham, south London, while her boyfriend screamed as he was tortured in the next room.
The woman was leaving her flat shortly after midnight on October 26, 2008, when several men approached her and demanded money, police said.
They covered her head and forced her back inside her flat, where they made her text her boyfriend and ask him to come over.
When he arrived, they tied his hands with his belt and tortured him, wrapping computer cable around his throat, pressing a hot iron against his forehead and thigh, and rubbing lemon juice and bleach into his injuries.
He was also repeatedly kicked and punched.
The woman was forced to perform sex acts and repeatedly raped as she heard her boyfriend screaming in the next room.
The gang later escaped with an Audi A3 and a Golf GTI, a black Skype 3G mobile phone, a black Nokia mobile phone, £300 in cash and keys.
