A BRITISH mother who lured a man into a threesome with her boyfriend and then watched as he was brutally tortured has avoided a jail sentence.

In October 2008, Chantelle McCluny, 23, laid a trap for her victim by inviting him to her Manchester apartment for a kinky session with her and her boyfriend, Craig Hogan, reports The Manchester Evening News.

It wasn't the first time the man had been invited for a ménage-a-trois with the pair - he also had a threesome with them just weeks before his brutal attack. Another man, Andrew Doyle was also involved in the sex session.

The victim later told Ms McCluney that he thought Mr Doyle "looked like a drug addict" and advised her to get an STD check if she had also been sleeping with Mr Doyle.

Ms McCluney told Mr Doyle, who was so angry he asked her and her boyfriend to help him get revenge.

The then 37-year-old victim was tied to a chair and forced to drink bleach, seared with a flamethrower and dunked in a urine-filled mop bucket. He was forced to pose naked outside for 30 minutes, was repeatedly kicked and punched, struck with a chair and pelted with eggs. Mr Doyle threatened to shoot his family if he told anyone about the incident

He was later found wandering around the Manchester city centre in a "stupour" with severe facial injuries.

The victim, now 42, was so traumatised by the incident that he did not speak about his torture for four years, until he when to counselling after a suicide attempt and revealed all.

He says he still has traumatic flashbacks and "can still taste bleach".

Ms McCluney, who has three children, was given an 18-month sentence (but suspended for two years with supervision), which means she does not have to serve jail time.

The judge concluded that she was now trying to overcome a deeply troubled past, including being in an "abusive" relationship with Mr Hogan during her teens, and living in fear of Mr Doyle.

Mr Doyle has been jailed for five years for false imprisonment and Mr Hogan and been jailed for four years. Both men pleaded guilty at a separate court hearing.

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