TWO bouncers who were jailed after kidnapping a festival-goer and abandoning him on a busy road will not be leaving prison early.

Brownstock reveller 32-year-old Paul Wickerson was killed in Lower Burnham Road after he was hit by several cars. 

Security guards Gregory Maxwell and Brian Atkins were jailed in June last year, for three years and three years and nine months respectively, for the kidnapping of the 32-year-old Brownstock reveller in 2013.

They pair appealed the length of their sentences at the Court of Appeal on February 2, but their appeals were dismissed.

Mr Wickerson, who lived in Australia, was driven off the Stow Maries festival site and had been handcuffed by his hands and feet by Atkins, 50, of Gordon Road, Ilford, and Maxwell, 34, of Masefield Crescent, Romford, before being left at the end of the Lower Burnham Road on August 31, 2013.

He had taken a cocktail of cocaine, LSD and ketamine and was hit by four cars before his death.

During the trial it was alleged the pair had joked that they were taking the victim to do a “bushtucker trial”.

Trial judge Karen Walden-Smith described the case as “truly tragic”.

Speaking to the pair, she said: “Your actions during half-an-hour between 10.15 and 10.45pm had the result that a much-loved and talented young man lost their life.”

She said Mr Wickerson had been “plainly” vulnerable and they had failed in their duty to protect revellers.

Alongside the kidnapping charge each man faces, Atkins faces an additional six months in prison for possessing CS spray, which he is serving consecutively.