Ana Khan has been jailed for three years (Picture: NTI)

Two women have been jailed after they robbed a man at knifepoint and ordered him to twerk to rap music.

Ana Khan and Tanieka Higgins humiliated Christopher Pugh, 26, ordering him to dance while a third person filmed.

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A court heard that he was wearing a Pokemon onesie at the time and the pair were effectively holding him hostage.

He eventually managed to escape through a window and alerted police. Khan, 28, and Higgins, 25, have now admitted robbery at Nottingham Crown Court.


Judge Jeremy Lea, said: ‘He was, in effect, falsely imprisoned and this was really cruel, bullying behaviour.

Tanieka Higgins was also jailed over the attack (Picture: NTI)

‘He was humiliated, he was made a figure of fun for your own amusement and then you filmed him.



‘Knives were produced by both of you, not just once, but on a number of occasions. His ordeal lasted for about an hour-and-a-half.

‘It only came to an end, in that he was so frightened he managed to escape through a window.’

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Judge Lea imposed a five-year restraining order on the women to stay away from the victim.

He told them: ‘You are not young teenagers. You are mature women in your twenties and it is shocking to see you do this sort of thing.’

The court heard Khan lived in the same shared three-storey house as Mr Pugh in Radford, Nottingham, when he was attacked on March 14 this year.

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She knocked on his door at 11am and asked to borrow his phone because she had no credit on her own.

He handed the mobile to her, then followed her into her room to collect it, only to find mother-of-three Higgins from Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, in her room.

Prosecutor James Armstrong-Holmes said: ‘Both defendants told him they did not have his phone.

‘They denied having it for 15 minutes. They both became aggressive and said they needed money and that he had to buy his phone back.’

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The women then pulled out knives and told Mr Pugh they were going to stab him.

Mr Armstrong-Holmes said: ‘He was frightened and feared he was going to be stabbed.

‘They both grabbed his wallet from his jacket, took £40, his house keys, headphones, pouch of tobacco and lighter.

‘After he was kept in the room, both women went with him to his room and stole a Pokemon toy and a duck-shaped soap-on-a-rope. He was taken back to Khan’s room.

‘They demanded he dance to gangster music. They ordered him to twerk and ordered him to dance or “this [the knife] is going into you”.’

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The court heard Khan had two who had two previous convictions.

Gregor Purcell, defending Khan, said she admitted she had ‘behaved utterly reprehensibly.’

Daniel Church, defending Higgins, who also has previous convictions, said: ‘I accept this is nasty bullying behaviour and demonstrable of immaturity on the part of Higgins. To them it was a joke that went too far and got out of hand.’

Detective Constable Raj Johal of Nottinghamshire Police said afterwards: ‘This is a good result.

‘The victim was humiliated and put in fear throughout the ordeal, so I am happy that the offenders have been brought to justice.’