Friday, 7 June 2019

03 boys robbed by arranging a get-together through dating website

Three guys have been centered in a series of robberies after the usage of a homosexual relationship website to arrange conferences.

They had been forced handy over belongings including bank cards, cash, mobile phones and wallets by a man who contacted them on the site Fabguys.Com.

Police stated during one of the robberies a person became threatened at knifepoint and that they agree with the three crimes are related.

Two of the victims have been from Reading and one became from Frimley in Surrey.

The first sufferer, aged in his twenties, arranged to meet a man online at about 22:00 GMT on nine February in Victoria Park in Reading.

A guy arrived, threatened him with a knife, and demanded his smartphone and financial institution card, which he used to withdraw money.

'Be careful online'
Then on 14 February, a fifty-six-year-old man organized a assembly in his domestic in the Tilehurst location at about 02:00 GMT.

The suspect asked his sufferer to turn off the lighting and light a candle, then demanded his pockets and additionally stole his bicycle.

Both suspects were black, slender, 5ft 8ins to 6ft tall, and aged 20 to 25-years-vintage.

A man in his 40s arranged a meeting in the dark at the identical day his domestic within the Warren Rise vicinity of Frimley after moving into contact via the website online's the app.

When inside his house the suspect robbed the sufferer of his pockets, cell cellphone, and iWatch.

PC Jim Bone from Reading CID said: "I would love to remind everyone of the want to be careful whilst you are arranging to fulfill humans online."

A police spokeswoman brought that human being the use of different dating websites can also be targeted.

A spokesman from Fabguys.Com stated: "We're with the aid of some distance the biggest gay web page within the UK so whilst tens of heaps of fellows are arranging meets every day, there's the potential for bad encounters.

"We're operating with the police to help them with their inquiry."

He brought that tips for secure meetings have been provided to customers through its website.