Leeds thug who threatened to shoot teen he falsely imprisoned is jailed

A THUG who subjected a disabled teenager to a terror car ride when he robbed and threatened to shoot him has been jailed for six-and-a-half-years.

Leeds Crown Court heard Neil Denny, 37, bullied the 18-year-old at a house party in Roundhay before falsely imprisoning the teenager in his car. Denny, 37, had attacked another party goer at the house before ordering the teenager, who suffers from a muscle wasting illness, to clean blood from the kitchen floor, telling him: “I will take you to the woods and shoot you.” Denny, of Victoria Avenue, East End Park, Leeds, told the “petrified” teenager to get in his car and drove him to a dark secluded spot behind the house. The teenager feared Denny had a gun and Denny told him he had explosives in the car boot before stealing his mobile phone during the incident on October 28 last year.

The offences were the last of a string of crimes Denny committed in 2016 while he was the subject of a suspended prison sentence. Denny had been handed a 20-month jail sentence suspended for two years at Leeds Crown Court in January 2016 after he was convicted of affray, criminal damage and possession of an imitaton firearm.