A crook caught throwing a snapbag of drugs away when visiting a prison inmate was involved in a series of vile ‘hostile’ dating app robberies months later.

Wasiim Omar and a group of others targeted gay men on Grindr in order to violently rob them.

They stole more than £100,000 from their victims during a ten-month rampage in Birmingham as well as an incident in Derby where they used another scam to attack two men at knifepoint.

The group were jailed for a combined total of 80 years.

However, just three months before, Omar, 24, visited a prisoner in HMP Forest Bank, in Salford, having driven over from Birmingham.

“Whilst he was waiting to gain entry to the prison he underwent security checks,” prosecutor Kay Driver said.

“He was seen throwing a white package out of his clothing whi

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