‘I lost a huge part of myself ’: 27-year-old assaulted in ‘Grindr hookup gone wrong’

An alleged hookup ended in a nightmare ordeal for a 27-year-old Gauteng resident who was beaten and robbed by a person he claimed was pretending to be someone else online.that he had been chatting to a man called James on the dating app Grindr, when he offered to call him an Bolt in the early hours of Saturday morning so they could “hang out”.

“I couldn’t really see his face because he had a hoodie on with a hat and a big denim jacket. I got out and went inside with him into a scary, dark building,” recounted Maurice. He said he eventually found an escape route and ran until he bumped into the building’s security guards who helped him get home.

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