Overview
- Birmingham Crown Court jailed Caprice Brown on December 15 after she admitted two robberies, fraud and assaulting an emergency worker.
- In July 2020 at Jury’s Inn on Birmingham’s Broad Street, a victim was tied up and burned with a hot iron before his card was used to buy a £999 iPhone.
- In September 2020 at Coventry’s Britannia Hotel, a man contacted via a Tinder profile called “Maia” was taped, handcuffed and threatened with scissors, and £1,000 was later transferred from his account.
- The court was told Brown targeted men through dating profiles during the pandemic and lured them to hotel rooms.
- Accomplice Karissa Alfrez, who now identifies as Damani Scott-Slue, was convicted of one robbery and sentenced to six years.