AN 11-year-old boy was repeatedly tortured by two schoolgirls during a terrifying kidnap ordeal, a court heard yesterday.

The pair, aged 13 and 14, were labelled "sadistic" by a judge after they stubbed out cigarettes on the youngster, beat him, tied him to railings and forced him to strip.

During the shocking two-hour ordeal, the boy was bitten and was choked to the point of collapse with a wire noose.

The ordeal left him severely traumatised and needing anti-depressants.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how the girls dragged him around five locations in Sunderland, looking for a secluded spot to carry out the attacks.

And when they were challenged by concerned passers-by, the pair acted as if they were helping the youngster after finding him bleeding and battered.

Prosecutor Penny Moreland told the court how the schoolboy's life had been shattered by the attack and he is now afraid to leave his home.

The boy's mother, in a statement to the court, said: "It will take him years to get over and we are now having to leave our home because he no longer feels safe there."

The court heard the attack happened on December 2 last year when he was grabbed by one of the defendants and told: 'If you try and run away I will kill you'.

Miss Moreland said: "He was first taken to an alley.

"One girl asked him if he knew what it felt like to be choked and put around his neck a length of clear plastic.

"She pulled it so he felt like he was being choked and released it before he was unconscious."

The boy was then taken to the back of a jobcentre where he was tied to railings with telephone extension wire.

He was then punched and kicked before the girls shared a cigarette and stubbed it out on his hand.

The youngster eventually managed to escape and made his way home, where a search party was already looking for him.

Judge David Hodson ordered that the pair, who had sought to blame each other, be detained for three years. He said: "This was prolonged, brutal, callous and it seems to me had elements of the sadistic about it."

The girls, who live in Sunderland but cannot be named, had pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assault at an earlier hearing.