Apprentice contestant Jessica Cunningham's uncle is former jailbird who was once kidnapped and tortured by gangland thugs in drugs row

Alec Cunningham (inset), 47, was snatched from his home in Burnley and subjected to a 10-hour ordeal by gangsters in Manchester, in 2003. 


Cunningham was brutally tortured by his captors, enduring a stabbing, having cigarettes burnt on him and boiling water poured over his legs. The shocking revelation comes just a week after Apprentice hopeful Jessica (left and right) discussed her past as a £300-a-night lap dancer at an upmarket strip club in Liverpool.