A teenager has revealed how she thought about leaping 50ft from an eighth floor window in an attempt to escape from three sadistic thugs who tortured her for more than eight hours.
Summer Gregg, 18, was spat on, beaten and repeatedly slapped by the trio, who also attacked her with metal chain and forced her to act like a dog as one demanded they film her ordeal at the flat in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, as his 'birthday wish'.
She was also urinated on, punched in the face and even overheard the gang discussing how they would kill her during the degrading assault, which left Miss Gregg with horrendous bruising, a fractured elbow and burst blood vessels in both of her eyes
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'I didn't think I was going to make it out of the flat alive and thought jumping out of the window would either kill me or save me,' said Miss Gregg, who was 17 at the time of the attack.
'At that point I began to think it was my only way out.'
Miss Gregg had considered Jay Blades, 20, James Canning, 20, and 21-year-old Amy Gaines to be her friends, only for them to turn on her after she visited Blades's flat hoping she could stay the night because it was too late for her to make it back to her parents' home.
The trio have now been jailed for nine-and-a-half years at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading guilty to false imprisonment and wounding.
Miss Gregg's night of torture began when she called at Blades's town centre flat in the early hours of December 22 last year, and found him there with Canning and Gaines.
She said she considered Gaines a friend and thought Blades was a 'nice guy' - but she sensed 'something was wrong' as soon as she entered the flat.
She had met the pair two years ago through her boyfriend, Andrew Smith, but had only met Canning twice.
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'My instinct was saying this isn't right, but I know them so I thought it would probably be okay,' she said.
But before long, the trio began 'plotting' and were sending messages to one another via their mobile phones.
They began telling Miss Gregg that her boyfriend had been cheating on her and became 'aggressive' when she refused to believe them.
'I started saying I wanted to go home and tried to leave,' she said. 'But Amy stopped me and blocked the door and said that because she was a mother she couldn't let me leave at that time in the morning.
'She started smacking me around and pushing me into the wall and started saying "It's me being a good mother".
'They were kicking me, punching me, slapping me and shouting things at me. At one point Jay had one of those motorbike chains and he started hitting me with it.
'I kept thinking what have I done to make them change? What have I done to make them want to hurt me that bad?'
The sick gang even filmed the attack, with Blades telling his accomplices it was his 'birthday wish', while Canning urinated on her.
'Jay started doing martial arts moves and said it had been his birthday wish to try them out so got the others to film it,' said Miss Gregg.
'I wasn't allowed to sit on the sofa because they said they didn't want to catch anything from me and told me to get on all fours and act like the dog I am.
Miss Gregg (pictured after her ordeal) was spat on, beaten and repeatedly slapped by the trio, who also attacked her with metal chain and forced her to act like a dog
'I was so terrified, I kept thinking they're not going to let me live.
'James started weeing on me, all in my hair.
'I begged them to stop it all but they just didn't care.
'My eye had got all swollen up from where they had been punching me, and they started squirting lemon juice in it.'
The terrified teenager revealed her most terrifying moment came when she heard the thugs discussing how they wanted to kill her.
Miss Gregg spent three days in hospital following the horror attack, and her arm was in a cast for 6 weeks. She also suffered cuts and bruises on her legs, back, chest and arms
She said: 'They were talking about killing me and then getting a van and abandoning it with my body in it in the middle of nowhere or maybe driving it into the river where no-one would ever find me.'
The attack only came to an end when the group called a fourth friend over at 10.30am to 'finish the job' on the victim - only for her to call an ambulance instead.
The fourth girl and Blades then followed Summer to the hospital after they had instructed the girl to tell the police she had been attacked in the street.
But they were overheard by a hospital worker discussing deleting their videos and photos from the night.
Miss Gregg spent three days in hospital following the horror attack, and her arm was in a cast for 6 weeks. She also suffered cuts and bruises on her legs, back, chest and arms.
Gaines, Canning and Blades initially denied charges of false imprisonment and wounding before admitting to what Judge Julian Goose described as a 'prolonged and degrading attack'.
Miss Gregg says she still has flashbacks to the horrendous assault,
and was left with a cyst in her eye which could eventually blind her
He also branded the assault 'an appalling episode of cruel and violent behaviour to a vulnerable woman'.
Gaines, of Denaby, Doncaster and Canning, of Askern, Doncaster, were sentenced to five years in a Young Offenders' Institution. Blades, also from Doncaster, was sentenced to four and a half years in a Young Offenders' Institution.
'I am just relieved they have been locked away but I'm terrified every day,' said Miss Gregg. 'What happened keeps flashing through my mind. I lose my temper and get angry very quickly now and keep having arguments with my boyfriend because of it.
'Every time I look down at my legs and see the scars from where they hit me I think of it. I have a cyst in my eye that I got in the attack which the doctors say could make me blind if it gets bigger.
'I think they should have got longer sentences because they could be out in two and a half years, which just isn't enough for what they've done to me.I also think they should have gone to an adult prison because they were adults when they did it.
Source: Mail Online
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