Torturers plead guilty

For 17 days, a mentally challenged man was held captive and tortured in a Corktown apartment. Yesterday, the last two of three people charged in the case pleaded guilty in a Hamilton courtroom.

One afternoon during his three-week ordeal, the torture victim's tormentors invited a woman up to the squalid attic apartment on Aurora Street in which they were holding him captive.

Anita McMenemy climbed the fire escape with the couple to the rear door. She stepped inside and looked around at the deplorable state of the kitchen. A sickly odour of rotting food and filth assaulted her nostrils.

A young goth with long black hair greeted them. Nathaniel Jug had stayed to guard their captive while his roommates, Stanley Brown and Dakota Thompson, went out.