'Enforcer' with gun beat wrong man for drug theft

“PROFESSIONAL enforcer” who was in possession of a sawn-off shotgun carried out a horrifying attack on an innocent man who he mistakenly believed had taken kilograms of cocaine.

- PHILIP DEWEY

> Michael Dumbuya

He and two men brutally beat his victim and filmed himself standing on the man’s chest, saying: “Where’s my food?”

Michael Dumbuya, 37, travelled from London with two associates to a house in Blackwood on May 20 where they carried out a terrifying assault on Cody Hudd.

The defendant had been employed by a wholesale drug dealer based in Columbia to use violence and to intimidate Mr Hudd, who they mistakenly believed was responsible for the loss of six kilograms of cocaine.

A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday heard Mr Hudd was woken at around 1.15am by a man grappling him by the face and throat, who said: “Where's my food?”

Mr Hudd asked the man “what he was talking about” and he was forcefully slapped to the face, as the man continued to ask where the “food was”. The victim told the man he was “not the person he was looking for” but the man shouted “Where's my coke?”

Mr Hudd again told the man he didn’t have it but he was punched to the left side of his face. The man told him, “You're going to help us find it” and punched him to the face again.

Prosecutor John Ryan said the victim noticed two other men standing in the doorway, before a hand was placed under his neck and he was forced onto his feet and pulled by the neck out of the bedroom, downstairs and out of the rear door.

He was taken into the back garden and was asked again “Where are my bricks of coke?”