Its hard to imagine why a fully grown man was being beaten, held prisoner and finally murdered in an ordinary housing estate in Newcastle.
Jimmy Prout was a happy-go-lucky chap and a father of two when he moved in the shared house in St Stephens Way North Shields. He soon made friends but of the wrong kind- Zahid Zaman,Ann Corbett,Myra Wood and Kay Rayworth were neighbours with unusual relationships. Zaman,known as Zed and despite being in a wheelchair controlled the group, at first meeting Ann Corbett on Facebook around 2010 and within a few years she was working as a carer for Zaman and also as a cleaner. Zaman held on to her carers allowance and wages, she said.
In her account Zaman was the ringleader with a violent temper demanding Ann perform perverted sex acts with dogs and drink his urine. Jimmy fell out with Zaman over an accusation of stolen tools and was subjected to a hammer attack which knocked out Jimmy's front teeth. Jimmy began to record his injuries on facebook including an horrific injury to his shoulder, black eyes and scratches. A cctv video shows Ann Corbett pushing Jimmy along the road to number 35 where he was subjected to torture by the gang which included having his scrotum cut open and the testicle removed and made him eat it. He was beaten to death and his body was dragged to a piece of waste ground and set fire too.
The house where Jimmy Prout lived before he was murdered in number 35
