A gang member who kidnapped and tortured two hostages and demanded ransom money from their families has been jailed for 20 years.

Christopher White, 29, of Bute Road, Broad Green, was part of a five-strong gang that burned its victims with irons and boiling water after snatching them from their homes.

The other four gang members were jailed at the Old Bailey earlier this month.

The group's first victim, a 27-year-old man, was kidnapped from the street outside his home in Upper Holloway and bundled into the back of a car in May 2013.

He was taken to a tower block, tied up with a sock stuffed in his mouth and badly beaten during a horrific 12-hour ordeal that left him with a broken eye socket and burns all over his body.

His kidnappers contacted his family to demand money for his release, before later dumping him in Chalk Farm. He returned home to find his house had been burgled by his captors.

Two days later, the gang kidnapped a 24-year-old man from his house in Enfield and repeated the ordeal. They shoved a sock in the victim's mouth and beat him with an iron bar and torturing him with an iron and boiling water. 

He suffered serious burns and kidney failure and spent four days recovering in intensive care, after being dumped unconscious in the back of his car in Brent Cross. 

His kidnappers had threatened to cut off his fingers unless his family paid a ransom of £30,000. 

Police tracked down the gang after the first victim described the view from the flat in Dorney, north London. where he was held hostage.

Fingerprints at the flat linked Courtney Bishop, 27, of Lambeth, to the kidnappings. 

White and Bishop were convicted of two charges each of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to falsely imprison, conspiracy to blackmail, grievous bodily harm, and conspiracy to burgle.

White was jailed yesterday at the Old Bailey and Bishop was jailed for 24 years on May 15.

Nigel Bishop, 27, of Lambeth, was jailed for 14 years after being convicted of the same charges in relation to the second victim. He was cleared of taking part in the first kidnapping.

Keith Walker, 35, of Mitcham was jailed for 14 years for taking part in the second kidnapping and Allan Smith, 28, of Islington, was jailed for 11 years for his role in the first kidnapping.