Now Gotland's district court has sentenced the four men to imprisonment and to varying degrees have been guilty of gross abuse, people's robbery, illegal detention and narcotics offenses.
The 22-year-old, among other things, must have been taken down into a basement where he "was forced to kneel and was struck with a blow to the face". The reason for the abuse and the abduction must have been partly drug debt and partly a controversy surrounding a jacket stolen from one in the gang.
Two of the men - 28 and 27-year-old - were, according to the district court, the most driven in the abuse of the 22-year-old and sentenced to two years and six months in prison each, as well as to pay jointly and severally SEK 30,000 in damages.
The 39-year-old is sentenced to one year and six months in prison, the 25-year-old to one year.
All four will also jointly pay an additional SEK 45,000 in damages to the 22-year-old.