X-Men star James McAvoy's brother Donald is jailed

X-Men star James McAvoy's brother Donald is jailed

The brother of X-Men star James McAvoy has been jailed for nine months for abducting and beating a father-of-four over an unpaid drug debt.

Donald McAvoy, 27, from Drumchapel, Glasgow, and his friend Stephen Killen, 30, locked their victim Zahid Sattar in a car and drove him around for hours.

Mr Sattar, 39, who said he feared he would die in the attack, was repeatedly hit while the duo demanded £5,000 in drug money owed by a mutual friend.

Donald McAvoy, 27, from Drumchapel, Glasgow
X-Men star James McAvoy

Donald McAvoy (left, the half-brother of X-Men star James McAvoy, right), from Drumchapel, Glasgow, and his friend locked their victim in a car and drove him around for hours

According to The Sun, Mr Sattar said: 'I thought they were going to kill me. I have nothing to do with drugs, but this has changed my life forever.'

Former chef Mr Sattar had been at a friend's house in Denny, Stirlingshire, when Donald McAvoy and Killen stormed in and asked him for the money.

Their victim asked them to calm down, but they took him to a cash machine where he could only withdraw £200 â€" and then bundled him into a Vauxhall Zafira.

He was then driven around for two hours by a third man, who has not been named, and was left covered in blood following the horrifying assault.

Mr Sattar told The Sun: 'McAvoy wouldn't shut up and Killen kept calling me a 'black b******'. Killen was just repeatedly punching me so I was covered in blood.'

James McAvoy is thought to have never met his half-brother - but they share a father, roofer James McAvoy Snr (pictured), who was interviewed by The Mail On Sunday in 2008

James McAvoy is thought to have never met his half-brother - but they share a father, roofer James McAvoy Snr (pictured), who was interviewed by The Mail On Sunday in 2008

Mr Sattar tried to convince them that he could get hold of £5,000 if they took him back to his home in Denny, but police were tipped off and arrested the pair in April.

Donald McAvoy was jailed for nine months for abduction, while Killen got 27 months for abduction, racist remarks demanding money and assault at Stirling Sheriff Court.

James McAvoy, 38, who has starred in films including Filth, Atonement and Trance, is thought to have never met his half-brother, with whom he shares a father.

The actor had a hard childhood on a notorious council estate in Glasgow, and has not spoken to his father, roofer James McAvoy Snr, since his childhood.

McAvoy Snr told the Mail On Sunday in 2008: 'It has been hard on me not being in his life, but I'm just glad that he seems happy. I hope one day he'll get in touch.

McAvoy was brought up in a council house on the graffiti-decorated Drumchapel estate in Glasgow in the 1980s, where children are pictured playing football at the time (file photo)

McAvoy was brought up in a council house on the graffiti-decorated Drumchapel estate in Glasgow in the 1980s, where children are pictured playing football at the time (file photo)

'I was amazed he'd done so well… James was a real daddy's boy - we would go swimming and play football together. We didn't have a lot of money, but we got by.'

Life of crime: Donald McAvoy's rap sheet 

2016: Jailed for six months failing to stop for police and driving while disqualified and without insurance

2014: 20 months in jail after £13,600 of cocaine w as found in his flat 

2007: Jailed for 30 months for stabbing a man ten times outside a bar

McAvoy Jnr was brought up by his maternal grandparents James and Mary Johnstone in a council house on the graffiti-decorated Drumchapel estate.

They took him in aged seven after his mother Elizabeth split from his father. McAvoy Snr said of the divorce: 'Our son took it hard. He just wasn't the carefree little boy he'd been before.'

After the split, McAvoy Snr moved in with a new lover, Mary McKinnon, but his eight-year-old son then refused to have anything to do with his father.

McAvoy Snr said previously: 'He started refusing to see me because he didn't like Mary. In the end I took a step back rather than upset him.'

 

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