A Leicester Crown Court in the United Kingdom has sentenced a 19-year-old Nigerian student, Oluwatobiloba Akinrinola, to seven years’ imprisonment after convicting him of robbery, blackmail and assault in connection with a violent attack on partygoers in Leicestershire.
Gatekeepers News reports that Akinrinola was sentenced alongside Richile Vangu, a 20-year-old student, who received an 11-year jail term. According to the court, the pair orchestrated a planned attack at a house party in North Kilworth on November 21, 2025, where several guests were threatened with a large knife, robbed of designer clothing and an iPhone, and extorted for money.
During the trial, Judge Steven Evans said Vangu recruited Akinrinola and others to carry out the scheme. Victims were allegedly forced to transfer £1,000 each under threats of being stabbed, before being made to perform TikTok dances. Those who failed to pay were later ordered to report to student accommodation on Bath Lane, where they were subjected to further humiliation and assault.
The court heard that at the accommodation, Akinrinola forced some of the victims to perform physical exercises, including star jumps and high knees, before repeatedly punching them. Vangu was also found to have whipped some victims with a belt, shot them with a BB gun, threatened to cut off their dreadlocks if they refused to pay, and later uploaded videos of the abuse to TikTok.
Although the judge described Akinrinola as being subservient to Vangu, he ruled that the Nigerian student played “an essential part” in the offences. Vangu was convicted on four counts of robbery, 10 counts of blackmail and one count of actual bodily harm, while Akinrinola was found guilty of nine counts of blackmail, four counts of robbery and two counts of actual bodily harm. He was acquitted on one count of blackmail.
