Two young women were tortured with a hot iron at a Bromley hostel after they were accused of stealing £50,000 from a friend’s bedroom, the Old Bailey heard.

Kelli Kalberg and pregnant Megan Willcox-Johnson were allegedly assaulted at the hostel where they lived before being bundled into a black BMW.

It is claimed Rhys Bryan, 21, along with Horace-Junior Brown-Downie, 23, and Morgan Riley-Kidney, 21, burst into the girls' accommodation demanding to know where the money was.

Riley-Kidney's girlfriend, 19-year-old Aanika Zaman, had told the men the women were responsible for stealing a gun, cash and drugs, from her room, a jury heard.

The court heard how she had earlier told her friends the £50,000 cash, black handgun with gold bullets, cannabis and crystal meth had been left there by her boyfriend.

Prosecutor Annabel Darlow told the court the men produced a handgun and used an iron to torture the women to try to force them to reveal information of the money’s whereabouts.

Ms Darlow said Riley-Kidney held the iron, which belonged to Ms Willcox-Johnson, so that steam streamed into her face, burning her eyes.

He also used the hot iron on her bare skin to burn her chest, breasts and the top of her arms, it is alleged.

Riley-Kidney held the iron against Ms Kahlberg’s face, punched her in the face and held the iron against her neck, the court heard.

The women, who were seriously injured, were escorted from the hostel and forced into a waiting BMW, the jury was told.

The attackers, suspecting Ms Kahlberg’s boyfriend, Alex Mujica, had something to do with the theft, ordered him to meet them at Elephant and Castle, the court heard.

Once there, Mujica was allegedly threatened with a handgun and ordered at gunpoint to get into the BMW.

The court heard Ms Willcox-Johnson managed to escape at this point, telling her captors she was miscarrying.

Mr Mujica was ordered to get hold of the money so he called a friend, who had the sense not to come alone, Ms Darlow told the jury.

She told the court Mr Mujica was repeatedly beaten by Mr Bryan and his companions, stripped to his underwear and threatened with sexual assault and shooting.

In the early hours of the morning, Ms Kalberg was dropped back in the vicinity of the hostel in Bromley.

But the jury heard how Mr Mujica was put into the boot of another car, before finally being released the following morning wearing just his boxer shorts.

He was handed some change to get home and told to “disappear”, Ms Darlow said.

Zaman, of Grosvenor Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex, and Bryan, of College Road, Crystal Palace, deny two charges of kidnapping and one of false imprisonment.

Bryan also denies three charges of causing GBH and one charge of possessing a firearm.

Riley-Kidney and Browne-Downie have both pleaded guilty to all seven counts and are not standing trial, the jury were told.

The trial continues.