A ‘vicious loan shark’ who kidnapped a vulnerable borrower, forcing him to travel in the boot of his car to get cash and broke his jaw during an attack when he couldn’t meet a repayment has been jailed. As he sentenced 35-year-old Richard Dawson during a Sheffield Crown Court hearing, the judge, Recorder Adrian Langdale, said Dawson ‘was clearly involved in ‘organised crime extortion racket’ and trapped his victims in a ‘cycle of debt and despair’. Simon Mortimer, prosecuting on behalf of the... Read this story
