Robbers who ‘humiliated’ victims in TikTok videos jailed

Two men who “tortured” and “humiliated” party guests during a robbery before posting a video of their offences on TikTok have been jailed.

Leicester Crown Court heard on Monday that Richile Vangu, 20, and Oluwatobiloba Akinrinola, 19, were both part of a plan that saw party-goers forced to take part in a dance for social media after being threatened with a knife at a gathering in North Kilworth, Leicestershire, on 21 November 2025.

Vangu demanded each person transfer him £1,000 before later filming himself whipping some of his victims with a belt.

Akinrinola, of Slippers Place, London, and Vangu, of Bowes Road, London, were jailed for seven and 11 years respectively.

Sentencing the pair, Judge Steven Evans said Vangu, 20, had planned to rob people at the party and “recruited” a group of men to help, including Akinrinola.

At the party, they had forced at least eight men into a bedroom before threatening them with a large “zombie-style knife” while stealing designer clothes and an iPhone.

Vangu then tried to force each of them to pay him £1,000, telling them he would stab them in the leg if they did not, before forcing them all to perform multiple takes of a TikTok dance while he took pictures of their student identification, confirming where they lived.

Evans told the court Vangu introduced himself as ‘Trixta’ “like a villain from the movies”.

He added that although Akinrinola was “subservient” to Vangu, he played “an essential part” in the offences.