They left at around 1.15am at which point the victim went back to work. They again had sex after talking for a while, with Ilyas encouraging him to confide his fears about why he was nervous about meeting up. This enabled him to set up a hidden camera in the room and for them to be photographed arriving together by Khan who was parked nearby.
The pair eventually arranged to meet at a hotel again, with Ilyas arriving first and coming outside to meet him. Evil carer's staff called disabled young woman 'liar' after rape arrest.After a spate of Lytham St Annes burglaries, these two have finally met justice.He bought gifts of flowers and chocolates as part of the efforts to convince him to meet up. Ilyas reassured him that he was only contacting him “because he was such a nice client and he wanted to meet again”. He made persistent requests to meet up which gave the victim “a bad feeling” after another experience in which an escort tried to ask him for money. A week later, Ilyas, who was still using the fake name, contacted the victim asking to meet up again. Ms Haque said the pair chatted for a while before having sex, for which the victim paid £120 in cash. They met at the Britannia Hotel in Manchester Piccadilly in a room which had been booked by Khan and would later be linked to his home address when the police investigation took place. In October 2020, he arranged to meet with Ilyas who was on one of the websites under the name of Daniele Khan. She said he worked until the early hours of the morning and had used male escort websites named ‘Sleepy Boy’ and ‘Manchester Lads’ to arrange secret meet ups. Prosecuting, Sarah Haque said the victim in the Manchester case was a married father and comes from “an ethnic community where homosexuality is not permitted”. The trio went before Preston Crown Court after admitting offences relating to the plots at earlier hearings. Ilyas was assisted by Aman Khan, 33, in blackmailing a man from the Manchester area and by both Khan and Khalil Chaudry, 29, in a separate plot involving a man from Burnley. One victim was “effectively held hostage” in a bedroom while being recorded before being driven round for around three hours amid threats to go to his home and tell his wife and children. They made false accusations of paedophilia against both men as part of the intimidation tactics.
READ MORE: Park Hall Hotel set for liquidation after botched asylum seeker plan as company blames Covid They were convinced to meet up but soon found themselves victims of blackmail plots in which they were ordered to pay up or face consequences. The scheme involved threatening to tell the wives of the victims and share explicit footage of the sexual encounters on social media.īoth victims were married to women but directly contacted Ilyas who was using false names both on male escort websites and the dating app Grindr. Kamar Ilyas, 34, slept with the two victims, who felt compelled to keep their sexuality a secret from their communities, before the plot developed into aggressive threats. A blackmail gang attempted to extort tens of thousands of pounds from two married businessmen after having sex with them, a court heard.