Deng Chol and Hiang Lay front court over horrific beating

Two thugs stripped a man down to his underwear and donned him women’s attire and forced him to lick his own blood during a horrific 10-hour beating over a perceived drug debt.

Two thugs have gone to jail over a horrific, 10-hour beating of a man at Deer Park they accused of owing them a drug debt.

A construction worker fears for his life after he was stripped down to his underwear, bound, tasered and forced to lick his own blood during a 10-hour beating over a perceived drug debt.

Mohammed Malik, 29, is still unable to work and suffers PTSD more than a year after the vicious beating at the hands of two thugs who have since been sent to jail.

Deng Chol and Hiang Lay were this week sentenced in the County Court after pleading guilty to charges of false imprisonment, intentionally causing injury and theft.

Chol was sentenced to at least two years and two months in jail, with a maximum term of three years and six months.

With the same maximum jail term as Chol, Lay will have to serve at least two years before he’ll be eligible for parole.

Mohammed Malik was tasered a number of times during the horrific beating.

Mr Malik’s troubles began when he stopped over at a Deer Park house to buy drugs from Lay on his way to work on December 31, 2023.

Lay accused Mr Malik of owing him from previous drug purchases but the latter denied any debt.

Mr Malik was hit on the head with a metal rod and while on the ground he was kicked and punched by Lay and another person.

Lay demanded the injured man lick his own blood off his white shoes before Chol and two others forced Mr Malik to strip down to his underwear, cutting his clothes and putting him in a women’s singlet and skirt.

They then forced him to sit on a chair with his hands and feet bound with a duct tape.

Chol put on a pair of boxing gloves and began punching Mr Malik who was also tasered and his forearm and thigh slashed.

Chol made a number of video recordings of the beating and was captured saying: “you are going to die today man. Have you got your last words. What do you want me to break first? Pick, or I’m gonna pick. I’m gonna choose your neck.”

Deng Chol put on a pair of boxing gloves to beat up Mohammed Malik.

In another recording, he said: “Give me $20,000 and you will get out of here. I am gonna cut off one of your fingers to make sure you don’t call the police, I don’t trust you.”

When he was released, an unknown man gave Mr Malik a pair of trousers and a shirt. In his victim impact statement, Mr Malik said he lived in fear of being killed and stayed in his room all day.

At night, he said he relived the trauma of being tasered.

Judge Sandra Davis said while the physical injuries on Mr Malik were relatively modest, it was clearhe remained in a state of terror and fear and had suffered permanent physical and psychological damage.