DG sorry for your experience and thank you for all the correct things you've done since. I will be more careful in future.
For the real inspector hounds on here, can you tell us how close you got to this flat before you we're jumped? E.g. could you see it boarded up or if there were any lights on?
Anything suspicious you didn't pick up as a warning at the time that you can pass on?
Do you feel they were waiting for your booking time or just for the next punter?
remember that they used her own telephone number...or she did.
that is a small fact that i feel some arent using to show the scope of involvement and planning
the only thing that would make it that they were waiting for just any random punter would be that they have the same location and scam for DIFFERENT working girls with different numbers...but i am going to say that they are not so stupid enough to double or tripple book and armed robbery
so chances are that they were waiting for his booking once he arrived.
Common sense would say that they would have to be organised better than most working girls in brothels......which is quite ironic...cause
1. the confirmed the booking
2. gave address
3. most likely once he arrived they switched off the phone to finish of the robbing equivalent of a working girls punt to avoid a string of people lining up and waiting (double booking)
4. after the whole thing was fininshed ...they either make a run for it or they switch it on for the next guy
this thing could not have been random as much as people might think...you have to make sure you hit the right guy otherwise its pointless.... them asking "you here for girls yeah?" is just a final confirmation its the right guy
the boys are local..simple as that. the fact that they have not switched on the phone since means that they know the police got called. No police means they can do it to the next guy that comes through with text messages......
.....infact i would say that if in the few days before DG got rolled over if people called her....and it rang or if they were getting text responses but then trying to call her or text her a bit later it went straight to voice mail or there was significant radio silence...they could have been carrying out another robbery ...after which they turn it back on if no police gets called.
then again DG said they were young so probably short sighted and pulled this thing 1 time and made a run for it. them being young kind of fits in line with her age peers in a council block