Andrea SannaThe five members of the ‘Grindr’ gang have finally been arrested and sentenced.
A gang of five men used the gay dating app Grindr to groom and rob their victims over a ten-month period between Birmingham and Derby.
According to the BBC, the gang was made up of
Demalji Hadza, 21 (16 years and two months);
Abubaker Alezawy, 21 (16 years and five months);
Ali Hassan, 20 (16 years and nine months)
Wasim Omar, 24 (17 years and three months)
Mohammed Sharif, 22 (12 years).
The gang were convicted last year after a ten-month rampage between Birmingham and Derby, during which they robbed their victims of £100,000.
Authorities said several victims were lured to secluded locations under the pretext of a meeting after being contacted through Grindr, a dating app used by the LGBTQIA+ community.
Once at the meeting place, the victims were attacked by the gang, who robbed them of money, vehicles, house keys and identification documents.
Many of the victims were held against their will for hours and threatened with death, while their bank accounts were emptied by the criminals.
