5 males who used courting app Grindr to focus on and rob males in a collection of robberies have been jailed.
Demalji Hadza, 21, Abubaker Alezawy, 21, Ali Hassan, 20, Wasim Omar, 24, and Mohammed Sharif, 22, lured males into assembly earlier than assaulting them and stealing their belongings.
The gang were convicted last year of stealing £100,000 from males in Birmingham and Derby over a 10-month interval.
Decide Sarah Buckingham mentioned: “It’s clear that there was lengthy lasting penalties on the boys who’ve finished nothing to deserve what occurred to them.”
Police mentioned victims have been inspired to return to a location underneath the pretence of assembly with a professional person on Grindr, a courting app for homosexual and bisexual males.
However once they arrived they have been set upon by an armed gang, who sought to steal cash, automobiles, home keys and identification paperwork.
Some victims have been held for hours in opposition to their will and left fearing for his or her lives whereas their accounts have been raided, detectives mentioned.
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, 2025-01-13 16:41:00
