Natalie Lilley was ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service (Picture: Ross Parry)

Two women have been spared jail after they tortured a man with curling tongs, a pizza cutter and a lighter.

Natalie Lilley, 19, and Leah White, 22, were among a gang of four who lured their victim to a flat where they tied him to a chair and submitted him to a prolonged attack.

Two others, Brendan Teale, 27, and Lorraine Earles, were both given prison sentences, although Earles was released because of time on remand.

The attack took place because they believed he was seeing several women at the time.


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Among the catalogue of abuse the victim:

Had curling tongs pressed to his genitals

Was forced to drink cleaning fluid

Was burned with a cigarette lighter

Had a pizza cutter pressed to his cheek

Was punched and slapped repeatedly

Had his ear bitten

Was threatened with being suffocated with a scarf

Leah White was given a community order (Picture: Ross Parry)

His ordeal only came to an end when White and Lilley untied him while Earles, the ringleader, was sleeping, and let him go from the flat in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

They all pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Recorder Bernard Gateshill told the defendants: ‘You all participated in an attack upon (the victim) which was designed to embarrass and humiliate him.’

Earles spent five months on remand and was given a two-year community order.

Teale was jailed for 12 months. Lilley was given a community order and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. White was given a community order.