A DRUG dealer kidnapped a client over an unpaid debt and ‘humiliated’ him by filming his terrifying ordeal and posting it on social media.

Serial Newport heroin and cocaine trafficker Ansar Hussain was jailed for 10 years after he held Richard Noble captive and “terrorised” him.

He abducted his victim from the streets of the city, bundled him into the boot of a car and beat him at a secluded spot in Caerleon, punching him in the face.

Hussain threatened heroin addict Mr Noble and screamed at him that he would make him “beg for mercy” over a £140 bill.

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A jury at Cardiff Crown Court heard how Hussain took his victim hostage after he started dealing drugs as soon as he was on licence after being released from prison.

He had only recently been freed following a custodial sentence of more than five years for possessing heroin with intent to supply in 2014 and this current offence was his third conviction for dealing class A drugs.

As well as the abduction, he was found guilty by a jury after a trial of being concerned in the supply of both heroin and cocaine and three counts of supplying class A drugs.

The 28-year-old, of Hampden Road, had pleaded guilty to kidnapping Mr Noble on September 3, 2018.

His co-defendant, Mohammed Ahmed, aged 44, of Conway Road, Newport, was found guilty by majority verdict of kidnap as part of a “joint enterprise” with Hussain.

Ahmed was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on March 15 after the judge adjourned his case for a pre-sentence report.

Prosecutor Nuhu Gobir said that Hussain had another drug trafficking conviction from 2011 for supplying crack cocaine with intent to supply.

John Ryan, mitigating for the defendant, said there was an “absence of weapons” used in the kidnapping.

He added: “There is a history of drug dealing in his family. He was put on the streets to deal at a young age.”

Judge David Wynn Morgan blasted, Hussain who had bowed his head in the dock following the jury’s guilty verdicts.

He told him: “Stand up straight. Look me in the eye. The supply of class A drugs is a despicable crime, targeting the most vulnerable with the community.

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“Your attitude to it is pitiless. You went straight back to it after your release from prison on licence.

“You acted to enforce a drug debt owed to you by Richard Noble by kidnapping him and you filmed it.

“In this film you acted with criminal self-aggrandisement – you terrorised him.

“You then put it on social media to humiliate him.”

Judge Wynn Morgan sentenced Hussain to an extended prison sentence for public protection, jailing him for 10 years in total.

A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing is due to be held on April 30.