VANCOUVER - At no time during his eight-day ordeal was kidnap victim Graham McMynn more afraid for his life than during the first days he spent bound, nearly naked in a bedroom closet.

He'd been grabbed from his car outside his parents' posh Vancouver home on April 4, 2006, while heading to university with his girlfriend.

His captors then blindfolded him, made him strip and confined him to the closet for three days. They were cold and threatening, McMynn told the trial of five men accused of kidnapping him.

One suggested he might be raped, then laughed. At one point they talked about chopping off a hand and one of the kidnappers put a semi-automatic pistol to his head and pumped a round into the chamber.

"I never knew what was going to happen when they opened the door of the closet,'' McMynn said Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court, where Justice Arne Silverman is trying the case without a jury.

McMynn would be moved twice during his captivity before being rescued by police on April 12, ending a massive effort to find him that eventually involved 400 officers.

But those first days were the worst, he suggested.

"I was a lot more afraid of them,'' McMynn said. "As it went on, it was less and less so.''

In more than two days of testimony, McMynn has painted a picture of a group who alternately toyed with him and tried to convince him they were serious professionals.

They initially referred to each other by numbers but quickly slipped out of the routine. One of his captors mentioned the name Jackson, only to be shushed by one of the others, McMynn said.

The man McMynn believes was the leader of the kidnap gang tried to explain why he'd been targeted. His family was wealthy, the leader said, and could afford to pay for his release.

"He was having a conversation where he compared himself to Robin Hood, with him taking from the rich and giving to the poor,'' McMynn told Crown prosecutor Richard Cairns.

"And you were the rich?'' Cairns asked.

"Presumably,'' said McMynn.

"And he was the poor?''

"Him and his group of friends.''

Anh The Nguyen, Van Van Vu, Joshua Ponicappo, Jose Hernandez, and Sam Taun Vu _ all between 19 and 22 years old when they were arrested _ are being tried on one count each of kidnapping and unlawful confinement.

The McMynns owned a bus-leasing company but it was embroiled in legal problems before the kidnapping.

Cairns wrapped up his direct examination of McMynn on Wednesday morning but the 24-year-old former computer science student won't return for cross-examination until Monday.

Silverman now must deal with demands that the Crown turn over additional evidence defence lawyers say is relevant to their case.

Lyndsay Smith, who represents Hernandez, asked for a number of items, including all car rental agreements involving Robert McMynn, Graham's father, with the same rental agency the kidnappers used.

Smith said police notes show Robert McMynn rented a car similar to the suspect vehicle, whose licence plate number was one digit away, from the same car rental agency about a month before the kidnapping. The officer's notes suggest the elder McMynn rented more than one car from the agency.

Smith also noted that when police rescued Graham McMynn from a suburban Surrey home, he was not blindfolded, gagged or restrained in any way.

And while he was being held there was a burglary at the car rental agency, she said.

"What did they take? Computers? Money? No. Rental contracts dating from 2004.''

She and other lawyers also want the Crown to turn over unedited police notes, the transcript of a pre-trial interview with Graham McMynn and details about what the police know of the news media's early tipoff to the kidnapping.

McMynn testified he tried to convince the purported kidnap leader to let him go, arguing the family had recently avoided bankruptcy by selling off part of its business interests.

But the leader's response was that they could sell off the rest to pay the ransom, or perhaps it might be covered by insurance.

McMynn testified earlier the leader told him his group was contracted to do the kidnapping and had already been paid, and that another group was responsible for collecting the ransom.

"The leader believed that this was just one of his jobs,'' McMynn said. "After he'd done it, he'd have other jobs.''