A school bully came back to terrify his victim years later in a horrific ordeal which lasted for hours - after they met by chance at a petrol station.
Matthew Meehan, 26, who has a history of offending, held a former schoolmate and his friend hostage for over two hours before the incident came to a head in a McDonalds, reports the Manchester Evening News .
The 2017 ordeal involved the victims being threatened with rape, punched and robbed, as well as being urinated on and having alcohol poured on them, in what was described in court as a night of "mean, vile and gross" abuse.
The incident began when the two victims were taking some friends home, stopping off at a petrol station along the way.
Here they encountered Meehan and his associate Jake O'Reilly, 26, at around 2am.
Self-proclaimed "gangster" Meehan recognised the driver as a schoolmate he used to bully, and soon forced his way into the victim's two door car - despite there not being enough room.
Demanding to be taken to Cheadle along with his friend, Meehan said to the victims: "You know what time it is for me bro. I'm fresh out of pen. I'm a gangster."
He then told the one of the others in the car: "You look a bit shaky. You should be f***ing shaking around me."
The driver allowed his two friends to get out, promising to return within 10 minutes.
But the ordeal lasted for more than two and a half-hours, with the two victims left tormented as the defendants repeatedly assaulted and humiliated them.
During this time, one of the victim's friends rang the driver's phone, which was answered by Meehan.
He told her: "I'm gonna come back for ya, I'm gonna rape ya, you slut."
At one point, the victims were told to get in touch with some cocaine dealers and explained that they didn't know any.
As a result, Meehan and O'Reilly punched and choked one of them.
Prosecutor Paul Dockery told the court that, after failing to get inside various premises, the victims were taken back to the petrol station in Offerton.
Here the driver queued with the defendants as they bought more alcohol, some of which was then poured over the victims.
The court heard that the driver looked for help at the petrol station but didn't say anything.
When a man happened to recognise Meehan, the defendant accused the driver of trying to raise the alarm - choking him as punishment.
"You're gonna get a lot worse now. You ain't going home tonight," Meehan shouted.
"I'm gonna rape you when we get here."
The traumatic night came to an end when the defendants forced the driver to take them to the 24-hour McDonald's in Stockport town centre.
The pair caught the attention of a security guard when Meehan went behind the counter to complain about waiting for his food, with O'Reilly filming the scene on his mobile phone.
The two men then attacked the security guard, who received "numerous blows" including with kicks and a heavy chair, before they were forced outside.
During the commotion, the two victims managed to lock themselves in the disabled toilets, waiting there until the police arrived.
Greater Manchester Police made a public appeal in December 2017 to find Meehan and O'Reilly, and the pair were later tracked down to a hotel in Northenden.
Both men have now admitted several charges including robbery, affray, false imprisonment and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Meehan's defence lawyer, Ian McMeekin, said: "It's always difficult to mitigate when the facts of the offending are so mean, gross and vile.
"Bullying seems too tame a word."
However, he asked that his client's guilty pleas and expression of "shame and embarrassment" be taken into account.
Chudi Grant, defending O'Reilly, insisted that, while his client was present, he was not the main instigator of some of the threats.
He also commented that the attack was not premeditated and insisted that "none of the events would have taken place" had the defendants not encountered the victims at the petrol station.
Both men were sentenced to six years and three months for false imprisonment, and were also given an additional nine months for the affray in McDonald’s, making a total of seven years.
