In the early hours of Sunday 2 April 2023, Vincent Jordan was lured to a flat in Nottingham by a woman he knew. He went to bed. He fell asleep naked. He had no idea three men were on their way through the door.

What followed lasted two hours.

By the time Vincent Jordan escaped that flat, bleeding, onto the forecourt of a petrol station, he had been stabbed 9 times, his ankle was fractured, his hand was broken, and chunks of his dreadlocks had been hacked off and stuffed into a clear plastic sandwich bag. Part of what was done to him had been filmed on a mobile phone and posted to Snapchat. His attackers had been singing.

When the police arrived, Vincent Jordan gave them one sentence. "Attacked by three persons with knives and poles." And then he went silent. He never testified. He never made an impact statement. He gave the system almost nothing.

They were convicted anyway.

In this episode we walk through the planning, the lure, the two hours inside the flat, the police chase 48 hours later that ended with a sandwich bag of hair thrown from a Mercedes, the loaded American military pistol recovered nearby, the trial that one defendant refused to attend, and the April 2026 Court of Appeal judgment where another defendant claimed the trial judge had been poisoning him with liquid radiation.

And we sit with the question at the heart of all of it. When a victim won't tell his own story, who gets to tell it for him? And what do they leave out?