Pit bull couple ‘in Blackberry sex blackmail plot’

AN alleged call girl and her boyfriend lured two men to their flat before attacking one and trying to blackmail the other out of £5,000, a court in York heard.

Emily Anne Akers, 31, took money from the would-be clients before her boyfriend Carl Wesley Mason, 33, jumped out wearing a balaclava and a pit bull-type dog, as one of the men was undressing.

York Crown Court heard how Mason screamed: “Get out, pervert!”, grabbing one of the men in a thumb lock and forcing him out of the house.

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Tom Storey, for the prosecution, told the jury how, the other man, identified to court only as Mr Brown, had already paid £160 and then accidentally left his Blackberry phone behind.

Mason and Akers used to the phone to contact him at a London hotel to blackmail him by threatening to send pictures of Mr Brown with Akers to all of his work contacts.

They told him to hand over the £5,000 in a supermarket car park, but Mr Brown told police before going to meet the couple, where police arrested Mason as he was on the phone to his victim.

The court heard how Akers advertised herself under the name of Jessica of York with the words “I just love sex” and a phone number on a “blonde escort” website that featured women in underwear or in the nude.

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She brought both men back to her house in York at the same time, ten days before the arrest, where one of the men paid her £140 for sex.

Giving evidence at court, the client said: “I was in shock. Everything had been so quick, so fast. I was in shock. I started screaming ‘Give me my money back.’”

A police community support officer cycling past intervened and, after speaking to Mason and Akers, told the client to go home and regard it as an expensive lesson because he could be implicated in an offence of “looking for sex”.

The client said that he was angry after the officer had gone and banged on the couple’s door again.

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He said that Mason came out waving a golf club in one hand and holding the dog on a lead in the other, then Akers sprayed him with something red that gave him a rash.

Mr Storey told the jury: “Whatever your views might be about both of these men’s morality, they were both, the prosecution say, in a vulnerable position and that vulnerable position was abused by both these two defendants.”

The first client alleged he arranged to meet Akers at her home for sex after seeing her internet ad on September 11. On arrival, she asked for and got £140 for an hour and led him into the bedroom.

There he was unzipping his jacket when Mason suddenly appeared and forced him out of the house, the court heard.

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In police interviews both Akers and Mason claimed the payments to her were only for her companionship and that both Mr Brown and the other man wanted more. So Mason had intervened to protect her.

They each deny conspiracy to steal, blackmail and threatening Mr Brown by phone. Mason also denies two charges of assault.

The trial continues.