A Brisbane man has been sentenced to four years in prison for kidnapping a driving instructor at knifepoint as part of a plan to abduct his ex-girlfriend.
Key points:
- His plan, he told the instructor, was to hide in the boot of the car while the instructor drove to the ex’s house and picked her up
- The driver escaped and contacted his family, who contacted police, and Ali was arrested a short time later
- In the months prior to that incident, the judge noted Ali had assaulted and abducted his ex-partner for almost three weeks
Abdel-Aziz Hussein Ali pleaded guilty to deprivation of liberty,…