Woman kidnapped over £100 deal

12 April 2012

A woman was kidnapped and held hostage by gunmen over an unpaid drugs debt of less than £100.

The woman, believed to be the girlfriend of a drugs dealer, was held in a flat in Southwark for about 24 hours before being freed by armed police last night.

She had been seized from a house in Woking after three drug dealers went to collect money on a deal involving two rocks of crack cocaine.

When the man who was supposed to pay them failed to turn up, the dealers took his girlfriend instead.

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