Two schoolboys faced the terror of being interrogated, gagged and handcuffed together during a seven-hour nightmare, a Court was told.

Prosecutor Simon Mallett told Bradford Crown Court how the boys, aged 15 and 14, had been assaulted by 51-year-old David Procter and Joseph Henry, 19, after the two men had spent the night drinking.

The youngsters' parents had given permission for them to stay the night at Procter's home in Hardy Street, Wibsey, after Henry had asked them to go with him to a car boot sale early the next day.

But when the men came back to the house in May last year Procter became angry about damage he believed had been done to the front door.

"The result of that was that from about 12.05am to about 3.30am there was really a process of interrogation carried out by both Procter and Henry," said Mr Mallett.

He described how the boys were held in the cellar at various times and then taken upstairs where they were slapped about the face and head during questioning about the damaged door.

The boys alleged that at one stage hot water from a kettle was thrown down the cellar towards them and that threats were made to kill them.

The 14-year-old even made up a false story about the supposed damage to the door after seeing his 15-year-old friend "gagged" with a tea-towel.

After the three-and-a-half hours of "interrogation" Henry handcuffed the two boys together in the study where they remained until about 7am.

Mr Mallett said the boys did in fact go to the car boot sale the next day, but did not feel as though they could try to escape.

It was only later that evening that they were picked up by a friend and reported the incident.

Both boys had suffered minor injuries, including black eyes and bruising, but as he locked up Procter and Henry, Judge John Cockroft noted: "The emotional damage that these two boys suffered can hardly be imagined or overstated. They must have been terrified."

Procter, who used to run the Curiosity Shop in Church Street, Keighley, was jailed for a total of three years and nine months after he admitted offences of false imprisonment, assault and possessing amphetamine.

Henry, of Clapham Street, Denholme, received a 15-month sentence in a young offender institution after he pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and assault.

Procter's barrister Nadeem Bashir suggested that his client's behaviour had been caused by a cocktail of drink and drugs that night and his mental problems resulting from a delusional disorder.