The jury in the trial of lapdancers from Hampshire accused of kidnapping a club boss has retired to consider its verdict.

Curtis Woodman, 34, claims he was bundled into a BMW, beaten up and forced to transfer £4,800 into a bank account during a “terrifying” two-hour ordeal.

Mr Woodman had refused to pay the women and their manager more than £42,000 for work carried out at his pop-up nightclub during the Cheltenham Festival in March 2012.

The businessman claims the women are not entitled to the money as they stripped off despite agreeing to wear nipple tassels and bikinis at all times, resulting in the club being shut down.

On September 3 2012, Devaney, 34, travelled to his business premises in Tewkesbury, Glos, with lapdancers Mandy Cool, 29 and Rachel Goodchild, 24, both from Southampton, and Stephanie Pye, 31.

The women – dressed in miniskirts, Daisy Duke shorts and stilettos – were accompanied by Southampton brothers Alexander Morris, 23, and Robert, 27, when the alleged kidnap took place.

Alexander Morris, from Thornberry Avenue, Southampton, has admitted carrying a bladed article, namely a Stanley knife.

He denies robbery, along with Robert Morris, from Itchen View, Southampton.

Devaney, from London; Pye, from Sutton Coldfield; Cool, of Warren Road, and Goodchild, of May Road, each deny a charge of kidnap on September 3 2012.