A gang is accused of kidnapping a 71-year-old man after a burglary at his home in Torquay. According to reports, the offenders broke into his property after targeting him, allegedly because of social media posts showing him wearing expensive watches. The accounts say the man was taken and placed in the boot of his electric car. He was later left there after the car’s battery ran out of power, leaving him unable to move or escape immediately. The reporting describes the incident as a botched burglary that escalated into a kidnapping, with the perpetrators abandoning the victim rather than completing whatever plan they had in mind. The matter is being treated as a serious criminal case. The available information does not include details from other outlets beyond the same account, and it does not provide confirmed names of suspects or information on arrests. Authorities are expected to investigate the circumstances of the break-in, the kidnapping, and why the electric vehicle ran out of power while the victim was in the boot.