Four people have been found guilty over charges relating to the death of a man doused in petrol and set on fire.
Tomasz Samel was kidnapped in 2019 from his home in Birmingham by an organised crime group who believed he was responsible for the loss of £1m worth of illicit cigarettes. He was driven to the Liverpool area and brutally attacked.
Tobiasz Kozlowski, of Kirby, Merseyside, and Neil Jones, 48, of no fixed address were found guilty of murder following the death of the 45-year-old who was kidnapped, falsely imprisoned, tortured and set on fire.
Two more men, Kevin Wooden, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, and Kye Arthur, from Bristol, were cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.
All four men will be sentenced on 9 October.
Samel was kidnapped from his Handsworth home by Wooden and Arthur and a third male. They had posed as Interpol officers executing a European arrest warrant.
He died from his injuries in hospital about three months later.
Opening the case earlier Prosecutor Harpreet Sandhu KC told the court after he was kidnapped, Samel was “falsely imprisoned, he was placed in a white Peugeot Boxer van and he was driven to Merseyside.”
It is there where he was tortured and he seriously harmed.
“As part of that torture his body was set on fire.
“After he was subjected to that torture, his body is likely to have been dumped in a remote rural location.
“Miraculously he was able to walk to the home of strangers who saw the state he was in and who called for an ambulance.”
