"It is now agreed that each of you fall to be sentenced on the basis that you each became involved in the offence of false imprisonment during the course of which violence was used from a time prior to the abduction of Logan Balshaw on the early evening of 4 March, 2023. Whilst each of you may have had different parts to play, it is accepted that you were each jointly involved in the abduction and the violence that followed."
"It seems to us that relevant factors in accessing the gravity of cases of this type will include the length of detention; the circumstances of detention, including location and any method of restraint; the extent of any violence used; the involvement of weapons; whether demands were made of others; whether threats were made to others; the effect on the victim and others; the extent of planning; the number of offenders involved; the use of torture or humiliation; whether what was done arose from or was in furtherance of previous criminal behaviour, and any particular vulnerability of the victim whether by reason of age or otherwise."