Three evil bullies who subjected a vulnerable teenager to a horrific three-day ‘torture’ ordeal have walked free from court.

Jack Bolton, Andrew Griffin, and Nathan Marshall used a mobile phone to film themselves carrying out depraved assaults on their 17-year-old victim. They kicked and stamped on his head, repeatedly punched him in the chest, beat him with a tennis racket, scratched his arms and leg with sandpaper, and threw him down a steep hill.

The terrified teenager – who suffers from autism and Asperger’s Syndrome – was also pelted with dog mess and forced to drink alcohol until he passed out. Mobile phone footage showed Bolton, Griffin, and Marshall, all 18, laughing and joking as they made him endure other abuse involving his own dog. And, in a final humiliating assault, they applied tape to his genital area before ripping it off.

The vicitm has now fled his home and is living in another part of the country. But the gang are back on the streets after a judge decided NOT to jail them.

Despite admitting the attacks were ‘grotesque’ and could ‘almost be called torture’, Judge Jonathan Geake instead handed out community service orders and three-month curfews as ‘an intensive alternative to custody’.

Victim's family: 'Torture' sentence is a joke

MP Hazel Blears' concern over gang's sentence

The decision was branded a ‘joke’ by the victim’s gran. And his aunt said: "He is just going to feel let down – like the boys have got away with it.They are bullies and they are known for it. They are scum." Hazel Blears, MP for Salford and Eccles, said she was shocked at the sentences and pledged to raise the issue with Justice Secretary Ken Clarke.

Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard how the victim had been ‘in total fear’ of the gang he had originally thought were his friends.

The assaults took place at Griffin’s house over three days in May when his parents were away on holiday. In harrowing footage of the abuse played in court, the victim could be heard begging tearfully: ‘Please don’t hurt me’.

The gang told police they carried out the attacks for no reason and because they were bored.

Bolton, of Winchester Road, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault. Griffin, of Appley Grange, Eccles, and Marshall, of Verdun Road, Eccles, admitted the same charges.

A police source said: "These people should have received a more severe sentence after what this young man had to endure."