People from Cambridgeshire used the Grindr app to kidnap and target subjects.

For robbing people they set up using a queer dating apps, two people have been sent to prison.

Between May and June 2022, Jack Walker, 21, and Eden White, 22, planned burglaries using WhatsApp.

They planned to meet up with men in Cambridgeshire at night and rob them of their possessions using Grindr as a trap.

Walker from Everard Papworth was imprisoned for three centuries and four times, while White from Lower Cambourne received a five-year sentence.

These people planned every aspect of these burglaries using WhatsApp, according to Det Con Rebecca Halls, and finally made jokes about them later.

A person in his 30s who had planned to meet” Toby” at the playing field in Everard Papworth at around 02:00 BST on May 27, 2022, reported the first assault.

According to the police, two people in dark clothing carrying knives robbed the victim, who was blind, of his mobile phone and budget after asking him to reveal his home address.

Similar strategies were used to target another female patients in Bourn and Cambourne.

The smart range that was connected to White’s phone and used to call one of the victims was found by the police.

White, of Quidditch Lane, Lower Cambourne, was arrested at Huntingdon Law Court last week after entering a guilty plea to conspiring to undertake assault, being involved in the source of class B medications, and committing fraud by false picture.

Walker of Papworth’s Cromwell Crescent admitted to planning a assault.

One man is awaiting word, and two other men have already received sentences.

Mackenzie Wales, 18, of Anson Road in Upper Cambourne, admitted to conspiring to undertake assault and was given a 20-month prison sentence that was suspended for 18 weeks.

A 12-month children appointment order was given to another adolescent.

Harrison Carter, 26, of no fixed tackle but originally of Cambridge, admitted to planning a assault and is scheduled to be sentenced later.

They consciously preyed on people of the Gay area, according to Det Con Halls.

Targeting victims with Grindr because they knew they would meet up alone, at times and places where no one else was around, and they thought they would n’t be as likely to report the incidents to the police.

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