TWO step-brothers have been jailed for subjecting a 16-year-old boy to a torturous four-hour long beating and kidnap ordeal.

Perry Revell, 39 and Jamie Whale, 35, punched, kicked and stamped on the boy in the back of a van before putting a hood over his head and driving him to a house where they tied him up.

Midway through the attack, they even stopped at a Harvester restaurant, in Southend, for a pint, leaving the terrified youngster bloodied and beaten in the vehicle.

They also poured drinks over the boy’s head and even stopped to pick up a friend, who got in the van and sliced the victim’s hand with a broken bottle.

Basildon Crown Court heard how the pair carried out the revenge attack because they believed the boy had stolen up to £60,000 from Revell.

The boy’s mum had been stashing packages of cash for Revell under her bed for sometime.

When some of the money went missing, Revell saw red and blamed the youngster, enlisting his step-brother Whale to help him carry out the attack.

Appearing in the dock at Basildon Crown Court yesterday, Revell, of Craven Avenue, Canvey, was sentenced to three years and eight months in jail.

Whale, of Church Road, Basildon, was given three years.

The incident began at 7.30pm on Friday, December 3, last year when Revell and Whale went to the boy’s house in Shoebury to confront him.

The court heard the money in question had been earned through Revell’s secondhand car business. However, Judge Alan Saggerson said: “This seems like a very unlikely story to me”.

Whale frogmarched the lad into the back of a van and the pair then drove him around Southend for some time, stopping several times to beat him up.

Revell at one point said: “I’m gonna get out and give this boy a beating”, before stamping on his chest.

Eventually the pair drove to a restaurant and went for a drink, before driving to a house in Ness Road, Shoebury, where they sat him on a stool in the kitchen and tied his hands behind his back.

At 1am, the boy was finally untied and he asked if he could go home. He was told: “OK, but it’s not over.”

The boy then called a cab and alerted the police.

Whale handed himself in and later admitted kidnap and causing actual bodily harm. Revell also admitted both offences.

Judge Saggerson told them: “You specifically targeted a vulnerable 16-year-old boy. You continued to imprison him in the van, with other people even joining in the process.

“It’s small wonder that at the end of the ordeal, which must have lasted more than four hours, this 16-year-old had been, and remains, significantly traumatised by what you did to him.”

He told Revell, who was given a six-year prison sentence in 2005 for possessing a firearm: “You were the prime mover in all this.”

Turning to Whale he said: “You were brought into this by your co-defendant, but you were willing to participate.”