Wayne Kavanagh, 32 and Thomas Sitek, 27, received the sentences at Basildon Crown Court on Thursday 27 April after admitting several serious charges.

In the early hours of the morning on Sunday 22 January, a woman arrived at an address in Canewdon, Rochford, to find the two defendants with the victim, a young man they had only met that night.

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