Gang who used Grindr to rob victims jailed

Five men who utilized dating app Grindr to people and rob men successful a bid of robberies person been jailed.

Demalji Hadza, 21, Abubaker Alezawy, 21, Ali Hassan, 20, Wasim Omar, 24, and Mohammed Sharif, 22, lured men into gathering earlier assaulting them and stealing their belongings.

The pack were convicted past year of stealing £100,000 from men successful Birmingham and Derby implicit a 10-month period.

Judge Sarah Buckingham said: "It is wide that determination has been agelong lasting consequences connected the men who person done thing to merit what happened to them."

Police said victims were encouraged to travel to a determination nether the pretence of gathering with a morganatic idiosyncratic connected Grindr, a dating app for cheery and bisexual men.

But erstwhile they arrived they were acceptable upon by an equipped gang, who sought to bargain money, vehicles, location keys and recognition documents.

Some victims were held for hours against their volition and near fearing for their lives portion their accounts were raided, detectives said.

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