German Seniors Still Show That Can-Do Attitude

A group of elderly Germans were charged with illegal kidnapping and grievous bodily harm after they abducted their financial adviser and chained him up in a cellar for four days during which they tortured and abused him.

American-born James Amburn, 56, was ambushed outside his home in Speyer, western Germany, bound with masking tape and bundled into a car boot after being bashed in the head with the Zimmer frame of an elderly client.

‘’It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath,’’ said Mr Amburn.

The kidnappers, upset by losses of nearly $1 million, face a minimum of five years in jail if convicted.