A PETRIFIED kidnap victim jumped from a moving car and suffered multiple fractures to his limbs as he was so scared of what his captors would do to him.

The father-of-two still endures flashbacks and nightmares more than a year after he was snatched from his home in Middlesbrough and taken on the terror ride.

Yesterday, instigator Abdul Rabi was jailed for four-and-a-half years, and his friend Kevin Manning got 18 months for driving the Volkswagen vehicle last August.

Rabi, 34, was owed money by the victim's brother and threatened to harm his family in a series of chilling telephone text messages, Teesside Crown Court was told.

Manning was said to have gone along knowing there would be demands for the debt to be paid, but did not realise it would be so serious until he was told to drive.

The 29-year-old's barrister, Duncan McReddie, said: "He had no part in the planning, he had no interest in the money, he wasn't to gain anything from it."

He said Manning had been out of trouble since the incident, had a young family, and after starting work for his father's company, was the household's chief earner.

Ian Brook, for Rabi, told the court that he "lost it" when he went to the door of the debtor's brother - because he needed the £3,000 for a business venture.

The man who had been looking after a £15,000 stash of cash was said to have used it on a gambling addiction, was unable to replace it, and has since moved away.

Mr Brook said: "He accepts it was wrong to take the law into his own hands. He ought to have gone to the police. He saw red. He wanted the money back."

In an impact statement, the victim says the surgery he has had so far to insert metal pins in his shattered limbs has not worked, and he will require more.

Rabi, of Stirling Way, and Manning, of Thorntree Road, both Thornaby, near Stockton, admitted kidnap. Rabi also pleaded guilty to a later charge of affray.

Judge Peter Bowers told Rabi it was "tragic" he had picked on an innocent man, who was so terrified he leapt from the car and suffered three breaks to his leg.

He told Manning that he had been "drawn into" the affair, but said he should have known how serious it would get when Rabi headbutted the victim on his doorstep.