A naked kidnap victim fought his way out the boot of a car where he was being held captive by a violent gang.

Shocking pictures show the moment Nigerian-born Emmanuel Chidubem Emmanuel, 27, was bundled into the back of a car by his kidnappers in Edinburgh.

The garage owner escaped after he accessing a fuse panel in the boot of the black BMW 5 series saloon which brought the car to a halt.

The gang bundle Emmanuel Chibudem Emmanuel into the back of a black BMW in Edinburgh

During the ordeal the victim was punched and kicked and hit with a blunt weapon

The four strong gang who had held Mr Emmanuel, Hooman Sojoodi, 22, Sanchez Facey, 23, Glen Elamo, 20, and Arnold Mukueto, 22, were all convicted of assaulting and abducting him on Friday at the end of a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

During the ordeal, which took place in February, the victim was punched and kicked, hit with a blunt weapon and his clothing was cut.

He was stripped, blindfolded and trussed up at a house in the Gilmerton area of Edinburgh.

The gang also accessed his online bank account and took crash from it before putting him in the car.

He was driven through city streets before he managed to disable the vehicle of his captors by pulling out fuses and fighting with them after the boot was opened.

A passing social worker, Julie Arbuckle who saw the incident began sounding her horn and called police.

She said: 'They were all kicking and punching him and trying to get him into the car. At one point they had got him in the car but he got out the other door.'

Kidnapped: Nigerian-born Emmanuel Chidubem Emmanuel outside court

She said the incident was 'frantic and shocking'.

Ms Arbuckle said: 'They just kept trying to get him in the car - in the boot, in the back, in the front.'

She added the victim just kept trying to get away from their grasp.

'He looked quite injured,' she said. 'His whole face was swollen.'

The social worker said she shouted at the attackers to get off him because the police were coming and they began to flee the scene.

Mr Emmanuel came over to her car and said 'thank you'. She told him the police were on their way.

She said: 'He said they can't do anything for me. I think he said "They can't help me. They can't do anything for me".

'After he said that to me he went over to the car and got a bag and took some clothes out of it and started to get dressed.'

David Taylor, prosecuting, asked how she would describe the man at the time of the incident apart from being naked and she replied: 'Terrified and injured.'

Mr Emmanuel from Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, had been on the latest of a few trips he had made to Edinburgh. He had visited a female friend and had intended to go to the gym before being kidnapped.

The court heard that a black car was seen coming to pick him up but he said he did not remember. He said: 'After that incident I have had a few issues remembering stuff. I had an incident where I was held somewhere.

'I was held down by a few people.'

Sanchez Facey, pictured outside court, was convicted of kidnapping and assaulting Mr Emmanuel

Mr Emmanuel told the court that he was punched and kicked, blindfolded and tied up. He said he was struck in the face and body.

He said: 'They wanted a transfer of funds.'

He said he had an ipad with him and bank cards and about £1,200 was taken from a business account.

Mr Taylor asked him: 'Did you owe them the money?'. He replied: 'No.'

He said he was trussed round the hands, legs and body and a bed sheet was wrapped over him and taped down. 'I think I was gagged with a sock,' he added.

He was then led from the house and put in the boot of the car but started to try and free himself and got his hands out of the bonds.

'I got my face and my mouth out. I found something in the boot that I used to get the bonds on my legs off. I tried to kick my way out. That didn't work,' he said.

He then turned to the fuse box and began pulling out fuses. The car stopped and he thought someone tried to push to no avail.

He said: 'The boot was opened and we started fighting.

'I didn't see much I just started fighting to get out. There were a few people there, males.

'By this time we had drawn a crowd. There were people watching and a woman beeping her horn.'

He had taken an object from the boot to use as a makeshift weapon to try and ward off his captors who were trying to put him back in it.

Pictured from left: Gang members Hooman Sojoodi, Glen Elamo and Arnold Nuta Mukueto

He said: 'Too many people started stopping on the road and everyone ran off.'

Sojoodi, formerly of Enfield, North London, Facey of Edmonton, North London, Elamo, who is currently serving a jail sentence in England for drugs, and Mukueto, a prisoner, had all denied the assault and abduction.

But forensic evidence from fingerprints and DNA linked them to the BMW and the house in Hyvot Loan where the attack began.

Facey, who was the only one on bail throughout the trial, asked for it to be continued ahead of sentencing next month following the preparation of background reports on the four.

But the judge remanded him in custody with the other three.

She told him: 'Matters have changed with your conviction which brings with it the prospect of a custodial sentence of some duration.'