A DISABLED man was tortured by a teenage neighbour and a gang of his friends who broke into his home through a boardedup window. A court heard how the friends from Hartlepool filmed some of their attacks on David Tupman on a mobile phone. Three teenagers were yesterday locked up after they admitted burglary, common assault, harassment and administering a noxious substance. A fourth was given a two-year supervision order with intensive surveillance after he pleaded guilty to all the charges except harassment. Judge George Moorhouse told them: “It seems you took some weird satisfaction or fun from treating this man in the way that you did.” Ian West, prosecuting, described Mr Tupman’s ordeal on January 27 last year, as “torment and torture”. He said the friends targeted him for their own amusement or “because there was nothing worth watching on television”.

Steven Bruce, 19, of Blakelock Gardens, was sent to a young offenders’ institution for eight months, and his brother, Liam, 16, of Colenso Street, received an 18-month detention and training order. Daniel Burnside, 16, of Pine Grove, was given a 12-month detention and training order, and Stuart Neesam, 15, of Waverley Terrace, was given a community sentence.

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Weston-super-mare: Detectives are hunting a man who attacked a disabled woman.

The 43-year-old woman victim was getting out of her car in Churchill Road when the man threatened her with a knife and assaulted her while demanding her handbag.

The woman gave the attacker the bag and he made further threats before making off towards the railway line. An e-fit of the attacker is printed above.

The attack happened at about 5.45pm on Thursday, February 15, although police have only just released details.

Attack ordeal of girl, 16 WESTON-SUPER-MARE: A 16-year-old girl was left with injuries to her face, neck and knee after she was attacked by an older woman.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the woman, in her late teens or early 20s, attacked the girl at the junction of Meadow Street and Alma Street last Monday at 5.30pm.

The woman, who attacked the girl for no apparent reason, was slim, wearing a blue jacket and with a man believed to be around the same age, who watched the attack.

M-way crash man freed AVONMOUTH: A man was released from a car by Avon Fire and Rescue crews after crashing off the M5 northbound slip road at junction 18.

The car ended up on its roof down an embankment after the accident at about 6pm on Friday.

The driver was taken to hospital for a check-up.

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