A 24-year-old woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison after using dating apps to lure men into hotels where she and accomplices bound, assaulted and robbed them.
Caprice Brown, who worked as a sex worker and has no fixed address, targeted two victims in Birmingham and Coventry in 2020, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
The attacks saw victims restrained with masking tape and handcuffs before being subjected to violence.
Brown previously pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery, fraud and assaulting an emergency worker.
Caprice Brown targeted two victims in Birmingham and Coventry in 2020
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WEST MIDLANDS POLICE
Her accomplice in one of the attacks, Karissa Alfrez, 25, who now uses the name Damani Scott-Slue, received a six-year prison term after being convicted of robbery at trial.
The first victim was attacked at the Jurys Inn in Birmingham on July 25 2020 after Brown, then 19, posed as a woman called Zara on the dating app Badoo.
After the man booked the hotel room and took a shower, Brown and an unidentified female accomplice produced masking tape and bound his wrists and ankles.
When he could not provide his phone password, the attackers pressed a heated iron against his upper right arm, shoulder and back on multiple occasions.
Birmingham Crown Court heard the attacks saw victims restrained before being subjected to violence
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GOOGLEProsecutor Mark Kalpinski told the court: “He immediately jumped with the shock and started to remove the tape.
“It was the same female who ran at him and punched him around his face.”
The victim sustained serious burns and had his wallet stolen, along with an Aston Villa season ticket and his bank details were subsequently used to buy a phone worth nearly £1,000 from Argos.
Two months later, Brown struck again at the Britannia Hotel in Coventry, targeting a man who had connected with a woman calling herself Maia on Tinder.
Karissa Alfrez, 25, received a six-year prison term after being convicted of robbery at trial
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WEST MIDLANDS POLICE
The victim arrived at the hotel first and briefly left to purchase alcohol after Maia appeared. Upon his return, Brown and Alfrez emerged from the bathroom and restrained him using both masking tape and handcuffs.
The pair demanded access to his mobile phone, threatening him with scissors if he refused to comply.
Mr Kalpinski said: “He was threatened with a pair of scissors if he did not give them details about his phone.”
After the attackers fled with his belongings, the man managed to escape the room whilst still bound and gagged, eventually obtaining assistance.
Judge Simon Drew KC, passing sentence, described the crimes as “really nasty offences.”
Addressing the Birmingham attack specifically, he said: “It involved a man being tied up and attacked with an iron. He was badly burned. It was multiple times.”
The judge noted the victim “suffered serious physical harm with injuries to his shoulder, back and side” and emphasised that luring him to a hotel room made him particularly vulnerable.
He added: “It was obviously planned and went on for a considerable amount of time.”
The court heard the first victim was forced to leave his job and relocate as a consequence of the attack, whilst the second man experienced what the judge termed “extreme degradation.”
Police traced Brown through her IP address after the stolen bank card was used, and recovered items taken from the first victim when searching her property.
