Men guilty of torturing drug dealer
Four Sydney men have all been found guilty of the "fly-in, fly-out" torture of a drug dealer, whose battered body was dumped near rubbish bins in a Perth park.
Brothers Cyrill and Serj Mansour, Andy Mannah and Niraj Singh had all been accused of the kidnap and brutal beating of Gary Visanich in Bentley in November, 2011.
A fifth man, Stanley Nicholls, was accused of helping dump the critically injured Mr Visanich after the prolonged bashing.
After a three-week trial, the Mansour brothers, Mannah and Singh were found guilty of the beating, and Nicholls of dumping Mr Visanich.
They will face sentencing in December this year.
The trial had heard how the 43-year-old Visanich had been importing methylamphetamine oil and then transforming it into a saleable form for the Perth streets.
But he had failed to pay his drug suppliers in the eastern states, and then ignored threats of the impending attack.
The victim received increasingly threatening text messages in the days before the attack from a phone connected to Cyrill Mansour, warning him of the consequences of non-payment.
One bragged that the men were "like a pack of wild lions chasing their prey".
Within hours of a payment deadline passing, the Mansours and the two other men flew west and lured Mr Visanich to the home of a friend, Nicole Stokes.
There he was detained and brutally attacked, leaving him with injuries so severe he was not able to testify at the trial.
When was found, Mr Visanich had facial fractures, serious head injuries, cuts to his stomach, hand and forehead, and burns to 12 per cent of his body from boiling fluid.
Doctors also found his kidney was failing and at least one cigarette butt had been put inside his mouth.
The alleged attackers then flew out the same night.
Defence lawyers claimed police had run an "incomplete investigation" and arrested the wrong men, and also pointed to links between Mr Visanic, Ms Stokes and the Rebels bikies.
