Three Slough Polish men jailed
Three Slough Polish men have been jailed for false imprisonment and making threats to kill.
Marcin Bukowski, 31, Jaroslaw Topolski, 36, and Tomasz Jastrebski, 21, all of Burlington Avenue, Slough, were sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday 11 December.
Bukowski received three-and-a-half years; Topolski was jailed for two-and-a-half years and Jastrebski for two years.
The charges related to an incident that happened on 8 March 2007. A man, who does not wish to be identified, had refused to continue working with the three men in what he believed to be acts of deception against Polish nationals. He was lured into a garage in Slough on the pretext of helping to fix a car. Once he was inside, the door was shut and the three men burst in.
They tied the victim’s hands together with cable and forced his head inside a toolbox. The men beat the toolbox with baseball bats and sticks, and also threatened him with these weapons. He was eventually released after an hour-and-a-half on condition that he returned to work with the group within a week. Over the next few days, he received a number of threatening text messages and finally contacted the police.
Bukowski, Topolski and Jastrebski were arrested, charged and were remanded in custody in April this year to await trial.
Slough Det Sgt Steve Fowler, who led the investigation into the incident, said: “The sentences send out a strong message that police and the courts take offences of this nature very seriously. We will continue to do our utmost to bring the perpetrators to justice, and would appeal to the Polish community to come forward with any information that could assist us in doing so.”
Thames Valley Police ~ Slough