Two sadistic friends have been locked up for putting an autistic teenager through a humiliating and degrading sexual ordeal.

Luke Esposito and Rachel Elliott lured their 18-year-old victim to an address in Medway with an invitation to a party but he was then assaulted with an aerosol can.

To add to the victim's distress, the terrifying incident was filmed and photographed by others and posted on the Facebook social network site.

The clip was shown to the judge in private with both Esposito and Elliott out of court.

Esposito, 20, was sentenced to five years and three months youth custody and 19-year-old Elliott to three years four months after Judge Charles Macdonald QC told them: "This is an appalling case and requires a sentence of deterrence."

He added: "The facts are almost unbelievably unpleasant. It is clear you were both involved in planning the humiliation of the victim."

Esposito, of Wainscott Road, Wainscott, admitted a serious sexual offence and he and Elliott, of Maidstone Road, Rochester, admitted sexual assault.

Their names will appear on the sex offenders' register indefinitely and they will be banned from working with children and vulnerable adults.

For full shocking report see Friday's Medway Messenger.