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Two Midland women robbed a man at knifepoint, held him hostage and then ordered him to TWERK to gangster rap.

Ana Khan, 28, and Tanieka Higgins, 25, attacked Christopher Pugh, who was wearing a Pokemon onesie, before keeping him hostage at their home.

During his 90-minute ordeal, a court heard, the pair forced the terrified 26-year-old to dance and twerk while another person filmed him.

Mr Pugh finally raised the alarm and called the police when he managed to escape by climbing out of a window.

Jailing Khan and Higgins for three years each at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Lea said: “He was, in effect, falsely imprisoned and this was really cruel, bullying behaviour.

“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.”

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 that Khan lived in the same shared three-storey house as Mr Pugh in Beckenham Road, Radford, when he was attacked on March 14 this year.

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 mum-of-three Higgins, of Burhill, Cotgrave, 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.

“He was frightened and feared he was going to be stabbed,” said Mr Armstrong-Holmes. “They both grabbed his wallet from his jacket, took £40, his house keys, headphones, a pouch of tobacco and a 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, where they demanded he dance to gangster music.

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

Gregor Purcell, defending Khan, said she admitted she had “behaved utterly reprehensibly.”

Daniel Church, defending Higgins, 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.”

Det Con 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.”