Incredible moment bound and gagged Chidubem Emmanuel frees himself from boot of a car

A KIDNAP victim stands naked in the street moments after escaping a gang who beat him senseless and bundled him into the boot of a BMW.
Brave Emmanuel Chidubem Emmanuel, 27, is bent double in pain as a bystander aids him after he fought off four thugs.
A trial heard they stripped, beat and bound the garage boss before stuffing him in the car and speeding off.
But Emmanuel sprang from the boot of the car to battle the thugs in Buckstone, Edinburgh.
One witness said: “It was horrifying and bizarre.”
He was lured to a house by the brutes who punched, kicked and battered him with a blunt weapon — then stripped, bound and blindfolded him.
Hooman Sojoodi, Sanchez Facey, Glen Elamo and Arnold Mukueto bundled him into the 5 Series Beemer’s boot and sped off from Gilmerton, Edinburgh.
But he worked himself free as they drove and yanked fuses from an electrics box to short circuit the motor.
He told the High Court in Edinburgh of his miracle escape: “I got my face and my mouth out.

Hooman Sojoodi

Arnold Mukueto

Glen Elamo

Emmanuel gets help after his ordeal. He was pictured freeing himself bound, gagged and naked from the boot of a car

DNA snared the gang who kidnapped the 27-year-old
“I found something in the boot that I used to get the bonds on my legs off.
“Then I tried to kick my way out. That didn’t work.”
Recalling how he then attacked the BMW’s fusebox, he said: “It kills the car.”
Emmanuel said he thought someone then tried to push start the motor — but the attempt failed and the boot flew open.
When he tried to escape, the gang set about him in full view of shocked parents on the school run in Buckstone, three miles from where he was abducted.
The garage owner continued: “I didn’t see much — I just started fighting to get out. There were a few people there, males.
‘People were watching and beeping horns’
“By this time we had drawn a crowd. People were watching and a woman beeping her horn.”
He grabbed an object from the boot to attack his captors as they tried to put him back in the car.
But he added: “Too many people started stopping on the road and everyone ran off.”
Witness Julie Arbuckle, 47, told how she saw the “frantic and shocking” struggle as she drove past. She sounded her horn and called police.
Ms Arbuckle said: “They were all kicking and punching him and trying to get him into the car.
“At one point the naked guy, they had got him in the car but he got out the other door.”
She added: “It did look like it was one naked victim and four other men clothed.”
“They just kept trying to get him in the car — in the boot, the back, the front. He looked quite injured. His whole face was swollen.”
The social worker said they fled when she shouted at them to get off him because the police were coming. Emmanuel came over to her car and thanked her.
Ms Arbuckle added: “He looked terrified and injured.”
Prosecutor David Taylor told jurors: “This is happening in an Edinburgh street at 12.30pm on a Friday, school run time. This is a serious matter.”
Emmanuel was bound round his hands, legs and body with masking tape and a bed sheet was wrapped over him and taped down.
During his ordeal at the property, the gang accessed his bank account online and took out £1,200.
But he denied that he owed them money. He added: “After that incident I have had a few issues remembering stuff.
“I had an incident where I was held somewhere. I was held down by a few people.”
The gang, all from London, were convicted of assault and abduction in February.
Sojoodi, 22, formerly of Enfield, Facey, 23, of Edmonton, Elamo, 20, who is serving a jail sentence in England for drugs, and Mukueto, 22, a prisoner, had all denied the assault and abduction.
But forensic evidence from fingerprints and DNA linked them to the BMW and the house where the attack began.
Judge Lady Carmichael remanded all the men in custody.
She told Facey: “Matters have changed with your conviction which brings with it the prospect of a custodial sentence of some duration.”