A blackmail gang who held a football stars' barber hostage with a machete while demanding £500,000 have been jailed for a total of 27 years.
Quentin Cepeljac was rescued by police at St Pancras train station in the early hours of June 6, last year after he was held captive in a basement Airbnb flat in Shepherds Bush, west London, for nine hours.
Mr Cepeljac is known for cutting footballers' hair including Ajax winger Mika Godts and Anderlecht FC midfielder Mario Stroeykens, and has also been photographed with rapper Central Cee on his Instagram account.
The 21-year-old had been lured to London from Brussels after he was identified by Davina Raaymakers, 20, as a 'useful target' on TikTok.
Blonde Raaymakers promised him a weekend with her a luxury tenth-floor flat, but the barber was lured to the Airbnb where her ex-boyfriend Adlan Haji, 28, Alexander Khalil, 30, and Omar Sharif, 24 were waiting.
