A convicted kidnapper has been found guilty of false imprisonment and conspiracy to kidnap after a teenager was bundled into a car and tortured at a flat in Weybridge.

Andrew Moore, 41, of Barnfield Gardens in Kingston, was found guilty on both counts by a unanimous jury at Guildford Crown Court today.

During the trial, the court heard how Abdul Hassan, 18, from Ashford, was bundled into a car by four members of a drugs gang in Ashford High Street on January 17 after he stole drugs, cash and a phone from one of them, before being driven to Gateway, Weybridge, and tortured.

Prosecutor Abigail Husbands told the court how Mr Hassan was punched, stripped and had naked photos taken by the gang.

She also told the court how he was made to stand on a chair while a member of the gang burnt his hands with a lighter and then stabbed him in the leg with a needle that he was led to believe contained heroin.

During the trial it transpired Moore had a previous conviction for kidnapping a businessman and tying him up in the boot of a car, for which he was jailed for 10 years at Reading Crown Court in 2005.

He was also convicted of taking a loaded air rifle to a Chessington World of Adventures car park with a friend in October 2015, and was given a four-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.

Moore had denied the kidnapping and false imprisonment of Mr Hassan, saying he had instead spent the day and evening with a woman with whom he was having an affair at the Surbiton Raceway.

He had admitted to meeting with other members of the gang that morning to buy drugs, but claimed he thought they were only planning to beat someone up.

Mr Moore, who has been a drug addict for the past 15 years, said he knew members of the group through drug-dealing and regularly drove cars for the gang until ringleader Dalmer Saleh found out that he was partially blind.

He lost sight in his right eye last year after an accident involving a tent pole.

A witness in the trial claimed Mr Moore was the driver in the kidnapping of Mr Hassan.

Agon Metrama, 21, of Garlinge Road, in Kilburn was also on trial for the same charges alongside Moore, and was found guilty of false imprisonment.

The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a further charge of conspiracy to kidnap.

Moore will be sentenced on September 22.