Masked gang grabbed student from street and robbed him in alley

THEY DELIBERATELY STRUCK ON SAME DAY HED RECEIVED HIS LOAN

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

FOUR masked robbers kidnapped a Nottingham student on the day he received his student loan, grabbed him from behind and frogmarched him to an alleyway.

Nottingham Crown Court was told how, once there, the quartet sealed it at both ends, went through his wallet and phone and drained his entire bank account of the money he'd just got that day.

In a victim impact statement the student, who was held at the scene ofthe crime for 45 minutes, told how he “came to Nottingham to better myself but now I wonder if I came to the wrong city as Nottingham is not safe’

Now the gang - Aqeel Hussain, Sefa Duzgun, Adeel Din and Oliver Sapounoy, who were all Nottingham Trent University students themselves - have all been jailed.

Judge Michael Auty KC said: “This attack was, on any view, clearly planned and, in some regards, meticulously planned.

“Tt was done out of greed. He was grabbed from behind, put in a choke hold and told not to say anything.

“He was led away and taken into a secluded alleyway in the depths of St Ann’s which was secured at both ends, making him imprisoned there.

“He was told to give over his mobile phone and told, under threat, to give the details of his bank account.

“He was inevitably terrified and he chose compliance to discover how far his attackers were prepared to go.