Inside the scam gangs taking UK students ‘hostage’ in sick blackmail plot to fleece families out of thousands of pounds

WITH bloodied bandages wrapped around his head, the 19-year-old pleads for money from his mum and tells her: "If you refuse, they will cut off my fingers." The chilling footage was every parent's worst nightmare - the university student, who had been missing for ten days, revealed "my whole body is in pain" and "I'm...