A Chinese gang member has been found guilty of kidnapping a wealthy businessman from a golf course and trapping him in a cage.

Tianfu Guo, 35, was found guilty today at St Albans Crown Court for the part he played in Dylan Huang’s terrifying 30-hour ordeal.

Mr Huang was playing golf with his PA and two other women at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire when five men jumped out of a car and rushed at him.

He was assaulted and bundled into a black Audi Q7 near the seventh hole in broad daylight at gunpoint.

Prosecutor Russell Pyne told the court: ‘Mr Huang was taken to a property at Thursley near Guildford in Surrey, where was blindfolded and tape was put over his mouth.

Mr Huang was assaulted and bundled into a black Audi Q7 near the seventh hole in broad daylight at gunpoint (stock photo)

‘He was walked up some spiral stairs before being placed in a cage, where he could not stand up straight.

‘He was given food, but was not allowed out to use the lavatory.

A ransom of 15 million US dollars in bitcoin was demanded.’

In a recorded interview with the police, Mr Huang who lives in Mill Hill, north London and Singapore, said he tried very hard to resist but was hit on the eyes and face.

He said: ‘They put me on the back seat of the car with somebody holding my head and the other holding my feet. They put a cover to my head. I couldn’t see anything.

‘In the car I tried to resist and tried to kick the door. I was told if I tried to do this again they would kill me with a knife straight away.

‘They put me down in the space between the back seat and the front seat. They put their feet on my head and my body.’

After an hour and a half the car stopped and he got the impression the men were changing the car number plates.

Speaking through a Mandarin interpreter, he told police they drove for another two hours before he was taken to a house and imprisoned in a cage

He said: ‘I couldn’t stand up. My legs couldn’t stretch straight. My head was covered and they had already put handcuffs on my hands and legs.’

Eventually, the gang released him in a remote area near the Silvermere Golf course in Cobham, Surrey, close to the junction of the M25 and A3. Mr Huang raised the alarm at an isolated house at around 11pm on October 25 last year.

The businessman told the police that no ransom had been paid to the men either by himself or by any of his contacts.

Tianfu Guo, 35, was found guilty today at St Albans Crown Court (pictured) for the part he played in Dylan Huang’s terrifying 30-hour ordeal

After being kidnapped at gunpoint, the businessman was take to a location and kept inside a cage (stock photo)

Andrew Scott, the property manager at Brocket Hall, told the jury of 6 men and 6 women he was in a meeting with the managing director when he was alerted by a noise that sounded like somebody was being beaten up.

He said he saw three or four Asian people on top of a guy.

‘I saw handcuffs on his wrists,’ said Mr Scott, ‘they dragged him across to a black car. He was very frightened. He was screaming.’

Mr Scott described the abductors as very smart wearing dark trousers and white shirts and one man was bald.

He said the three women who had been with Mr Huang had sore eyes and a red face.

‘They had some sort of spray in their face. All 3 had sore eyes red face. Pepper spray had been mentioned,’ he said.

In a statement, another member of staff, Sarah Reeves-Hart said she saw the victim on the floor.

She said: ‘They were punching him in the torso. He was face up.

‘The three males had loose cotton masks covering a large chunk of their face.

‘The victim had been handcuffed. They dragged him to a parked car and bundled him in.’

Tianfu Guo, of no fixed address, was convicted of conspiracy to kidnap on or before 24 October last year and conspiracy to blackmail.

He was cleared of possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He was aided in court by a Mandarin interpreter.

Mr Pyne told the jury six other suspects are on the run. They are Liang Tang, Wen Ji Nan, Xianchao Chen, Yazhou Tao, Yuan Gui Jin and Hanzhi Jiang.

Guo had been arrested in Chinatown in London an hour before the time of Mr Huang’s release.

He had been driving an Audi Q5 car that the day before had been tracked on an ANPR camera travelling in convoy with the Audi Q7 that had false registration plates, close to Brocket Hall Golf Club.

The next day the Q5, a hire car with a genuine registration plate, had been tracked to an area just off the A3 south of Guildford.

Police followed it into London where Guo was arrested and found with more than £4,000 on him.

The police also found Chinese passports and identity cards belonging to others.

There was a video camera in the driver’s door pocket, an SD card and a small telescope.

Mr Pyne said on the SD card the police found evidence that Mr Huang was under surveillance, adding: ‘He was being watched by members of kidnap group.

‘Both at his home, following his car and watching him playing golf at Brocket Hall.’

Aided in court by a Mandarin interpreter, Guo said he was visiting the UK for two or three months and ‘was just a tourist.’

The married dad-of-one, who had previously worked as a fruit wholesaler and recruitment agent, came from Xi’an to Heathrow Airport on July 9 2023 on the recommendation of a friend.

Guo was living in Edgware and on the afternoon of October 24 he said he was asked to drive a man to Welwyn Garden City in a Q5 car.

After dropping him off, he said he stayed in the area for several hours.

He said he rested at home and was called and given the postcode of an address near Guildford.

At around 4.30pm Guo said he collected some food from the Tesco supermarket in Guildford before arranging to meet the man and hand it over.

He said left the area and headed towards Chinatown, where he was subsequently arrested.

Detective Inspector Justine Jenkins, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: ‘I am glad that the jury have reached this decision today.

‘It continues to be a complex and challenging case and our officers were working around the clock to find the victim safe.

‘He was put through a traumatic ordeal and he has been supported by our specially trained officers. I hope that today’s result goes some way in helping him to recover from his ordeal.’

Guo is due to be sentenced on Thursday 25th April.