Southern trio’s Hangover-style night out of hookers, brothels and a Vietnamese stranger passed out in their car in Middlesbrough lands them in court
Chase Harman, 26, Robert Naidoo, 32 and Michael Sharland, 32, ended a wild night out in a Middlesbrough casino last year by visiting a brothel in the town's Gresham area
THREE Londoners got more than they bargained for when their Hangover-style night out landed them in court.
Chase Harman, 26, Robert Naidoo, 32 and Michael Sharland, 32, ended a wild night out in a Middlesbrough casino last year by visiting a brothel in the town's Gresham area.
But soon after leaving the house of ill repute, the men noticed their mobile phones were missing.
Drunk and disorientated, they took it out on two "hapless" men who were trying to help them find their way back to the sordid spot.
After realising their phones were missing, the group approached two locals to ask if they knew a man who let his home be used by sex workers, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The men said they did and took them to a nearby house - but it was not the same one the group had spent the night in.
Trouble soon escalated as the group banged on the empty house's door at 4.30am on November 29 last year.
It resulted in the Londoners bundling one of the men who tried to help in a car and threatening him.
Naidoo told the man to "get in the car or you will be shot", before adding: "You'd better get into the car or you're going to get hurt.
"If you don't get our phones back we're going to hurt you."
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The victim was driven off but freed as his friend had called police, who arrested the trio.
Unemployed bricklayer Sharland, who punched the victim in the ribs during the ordeal, racially abused the police officer who arrested him.
In echoes of comedy film The Hangover, a drunk Vietnamese man the group picked up on their travels slept through the fracas in the car.
All three men were cleared of kidnapping charges after admitting affray.
Sharland told police he had come to the area to buy a car and the three ended up at a casino.
After, they "had some fun with girls" before realising their phones were missing.
Sharland had 53 offences on his record, Harmand had 32 and former heroin and crack addict Naidoo was given a 10-year prison sentence in 2007 for "a series of armed robberies on building societies with a Gat gun".
All three men had been remanded in custody since their arrests.
Judge Peter Armstrong told the defendants, appearing in court via video link to Holme House Prison: “What the three of you were up to this particular night remains something of a mystery, but the background of it seems to have been the loss of these phones.
“You indulged in what I take to be bullying behaviour. Fortunately for you no serious injury was done.
“If there had been you might have had to spend a good deal longer in custody.
“You’ve spent some time in custody so far. I think it is sufficient as an immediate punishment.”
He gave each a six-month prison sentence suspended for two years and ordered them to pay £100 compensation each to the victim.
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