A cruel couple who inflicted pain on two women and a man, with one victim made to consume human urine and another held against her will in her residence, have received a 25-year prison sentence.
Imaan Coley, 37, and her boyfriend Mohammed Khan, 24, both from Sparkbrook, terrorised two victims together in offences over three months.
The couple stormed one of their victim’s HMO, beat her up and forced her to strip before stealing her belongings, including her three cats.
Coley had previously kept another woman captive in her own home for more than two months, during which she set her on fire and made her drink bleach.
In a separate incident, Khan carried out a ‘vicious’ hammer attack of his own on a man
Both were convicted of a string of offences including wounding with intent, administering a noxious substance and burglary.
At Birmingham Crown Court on Monday, March 17, Coley, formerly residing on Benton Road, was given a 14-year sentence, while Khan, who previously lived on Barrow Road, was handed an 11-year prison term.
Both also received four-year extended licence periods after being declared ‘dangerous’ by Judge Peter Cooke.
Imaan Coley, 37, kept a woman captive for more than two months and forced another to drink human urine
The crimes were committed in 2023. Following her release from prison for another crime, Coley resumed her relationship with Khan, who admitted to being involved in drug trafficking.
The first victim, a woman, ended up saddled with her boyfriend’s drug debt to Khan after he left her.
Coley had initially befriended the woman but soon turned against her and ‘cuckooed’ her home, effectively moving herself in and allowing Khan to use it as a supply base.
Coley proceeded to throw out her mattress and make the woman, who was disabled, sleep on a hard floor.
For weeks on end, between May and August that year, the victim’s movements were ‘severely curtailed and controlled’, said Judge Cooke who added she was not allowed to leave ‘unsupervised or unchaperoned’.
He continued: ‘During that ordeal she was assaulted with conspicuous cruelty by Imaan Coley.’
Coley punched, slapped and kicked her in front of her gang of drug users.
In further incidents she set fire to her hair before shaving and cutting it, telling her she would look like the popstar Rihanna.
Instead, the woman was ridiculed and asked if she was a boy or if she was transgender.
On one occasion she was told to drink a glass of ‘vodka’, which was in fact bleach.
When she refused Coley poured it in her face causing it to burn her throat and stomach.
The woman also had her glasses taken from her and was deprived of food while being forced to watch her pizza being fed to dogs.
‘In the end she was reduced to eating scraps she could find in the bin,’ said Judge Cooke who added: ‘Had that been the measure of Imaan Coley it would have been bad enough but there’s worse to come.’
On June 11, 2023, Khan attacked a man with a hammer in a separate incident.
The victim did not cooperate with the investigation but Khan claimed he was asleep in a friend’s car when the man, who supposedly had a knife, tried to steal the vehicle.
Khan chased him down the street to a doorway where CCTV captured him repeatedly strike the victim with the hammer.
Mohammed Khan, 24, attacked a man with a hammer in a separate incident
He knocked the man to the floor and continued to inflict blows with the weapon as well as ‘three distinct stamps’, the court heard.
Judge Cooke said the victim suffered ‘horrible’ injuries in the ‘especially vicious and sustained attack’.
The third victim, a woman, was attacked by the couple together.
By this time Coley had moved to a HMO in Yardley Road and had taken a dislike to the victim.
On August 12 that year Khan kicked in her door and stormed her flat with Coley, while two other people watched on.
Judge Cooke said: ‘What was done over at least the next four hours or so to her was horrific.
‘Previously, I have used the word torture. I don’t resile from that.
‘It was the most appalling display of cruelty to a completely helpless and defenceless person.’
The woman was twice forced to take showers and strip while her body piercings were removed in ‘circumstances of extreme humiliation’.
She had cat food smeared in her face, was forced to drink Flash floor cleaner and had her nose broken, which Coley ‘celebrated’ as blood poured out.
Judge Cooke said: ‘Then in what was perhaps the single most degrading aspect of the whole episode (the first woman), herself a victim of these pair, was escorted into the room and instructed to squat over (the second woman) and urinate in her mouth, which she did.’
He continued: ‘Having heaped violence upon violence, indignity upon indignity on this woman, the two of you then effectively emptied her flat of her belongings.’
That included taking the victim’s three cats, one of which had not been returned to her since.
A Birmingham Crown Court, the couple were sentenced to a combined 25 years behind bars
Judge Cooke said ‘vicious’ Coley had treated her two victims in an ‘astonishingly inhumane fashion’.
Following a trial she was found guilty of false imprisonment, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and administering a noxious substance in relation to the first victim as well as inflicting grievous bodily harm and two counts of administering a noxious substance concerning the second woman. She had admitted burglary.
Daniel Oscroft, defending, confirmed she maintained her denials. He said: ‘This was a toxic relationship (with Khan) and the behaviour she displayed that was so severe was something that wouldn’t have taken place if not for the nature of the relationship.’
The barrister also told the court that mother-of-five Coley had an ‘awful upbringing’ and became addicted to drugs but remained clean for 13 years only to relapse upon suffering post-natal depression.
Mr Oscroft said she descended into drug and alcohol addiction which led her to prison for a series of burglaries in 2019 where she targeted vulnerable people.
He said she ‘fell into the orbit’ of Khan after being released and having nowhere to live.
Khan, who was the subject of a £10,000 Crimestoppers appeal, admitted two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, two counts of administering a noxious substance and one of burglary.
Jasvir Mann, defending, said he was ‘immature’ at the time.
He said Khan worked as a delivery driver and came from a ‘decent family’ but lost contact with them after taking class A drugs, which he began dealing to fund his own addiction.
The barrister said Khan was ‘genuinely sorry’ for his actions.
