Girls kidnapped at knifepoint, robbed and dumped in a lane

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Two young women were jailed at Warwick Crown Court for a total of 11-and-a-half years

Two teenagers were kidnapped at knifepoint, held in a car and threatened with being stabbed in the face, then robbed before being dumped in an isolated lane without their shoes.

One of the young women who had abducted them then went on to try to rob two other girls the following day, Warwick Crown Court has heard.

Lana McMahon, 19, and Amie Tomlinson, 20, both of Pondthorpe, Willenhall, pleaded guilty to two charges of kidnapping and two of robbery.

McMahon, who also admitted two further charges of attempted robbery, one of possessing a bladed article, and being in breach of a suspended sentence was jailed for a total of six years and seven months.

Tomlinson was jailed for five years, and they were both made subject to restraining orders banning them from contacting their victims in any way for ten years.

Jailing the two women, Recorder David Chinery told them: “For the victims of these offences there can be nothing more serious in their minds than the situations in which they were put, in particular the first two.

“It is very difficult to see any mitigation beyond your guilty pleas. Lana McMahon, I regard you as the prime mover in this. Inevitably the sentences must be custodial, the only issue is length.”

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Unmasked: Evil kidnappers who robbed terrified girls at knifepoint and dumped them in a lane



Police have released mugshots of two young women who kidnapped and robbed two terrified younger girls at knifepoint before dumping them in a lane without their shoes.

As we reported on Wednesday, one of the young women who had abducted them then went on to try to rob two other girls the following day.

At Warwick Crown Court, Lana McMahon, 19, and Amie Tomlinson, 20, both of Pondthorpe, Willenhall, pleaded guilty to two charges of kidnapping and two of robbery.

McMahon, who also admitted two further charges of attempted robbery, one of possessing a bladed article, and being in breach of a suspended sentence was jailed for a total of six years and seven months.

Tomlinson was jailed for five years, and they were both made subject to restraining orders banning them from contacting their victims in any way for ten years.