Chilling photos released of house where 80-year-old kept two women and tortured them
Having escaped justice for over three decades an 80-year-old man is likely to spend the rest of his days behind bars after imprisoning and torturing two women in his home.
Vincent Agar fled the UK in 2000 to live in Thailand and had avoided police attention until last year, when he was extradited and brought back to face the consequences of his horrific actions.
He established a 'house of horrors' where he kept two women locked inside while torturing them in his cellar, and it is only now that he has been officially found guilty.
This week saw the disturbed former drug dealer sentenced to 19 years in jail after he was found guilty of six charges including grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment, threats to kill and drug dealing.
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Police have now released some of the horrific images from inside his flat in Middlesbrough, which showed drugs on the table splattered blood on the walls and clumps of hair on the floor.
A trap door can also be seen, which allowed him to lock away women inside the dingy dungeon when he left the flat.
Jailing him at Durham Crown Court, Judge Richard Bennett branded Agar 'a violent and sadistic bully'.
He said: “Your offending has now caught up with you. You revelled in holding power over some of the most vulnerable women in our society.
"Your flat was like a fortress. You had installed a number of doors to the interior to prevent access. They also prevented escape.
"I reject your evidence that these doors were installed for either draft exclusion or because you were being burgled.
“These were classic security measures of a drug dealer designed to prevent the police getting into your flat before you could dispose of drugs.
"That anti-police security also created a barrier which prevented [first victim] from escaping.
"You got away with committing these serious offences for 25 years and this has now caught up on you."
The court learned that Agar tortured the women for two years between 1998 and 2000, with one of the women threatened with a gun and abducted after she spotted another woman tied to the radiator.
One of the women revealed during the case that the elderly man would cut her with hot knives, burn her with an iron and a crackpipe gauze, while another occasion saw him beat her so hard with a metal hoover pole that it broke.
Agar utilised a number of other torture methods, keeping the women strapped into a chair and pouring boiling hot water on them, or breaking their fingers.
Detectives first began investigating Agar's crimes back in 2019 and brought him back to the UK from Thailand so he could properly face justice.
Topics: Crime
James Moorhouse