A Cambridge woman has pleaded guilty to committing two kidnappings and a robbery in one day, both taking place when New Zealand was under level 4 lockdown.
Jasmine Blake, 35, entered guilty pleas to two charges of kidnap and one charge of robbery at Rotorua District Court on Tuesday.
All charges stem from a series of offences committed by Blake on April 7, starting at 6.28pm at the Countdown supermarket in Cambridge.
That's where the first victim was motoring along until Blake walked in front of his vehicle, causing him to stop.
According to the police summary of facts, she then entered the vehicle and told the man 'just f...... drive, just drive”.
'I'll stab you if you don't drive,” she said.
'Just drive if you want to live.”
The summary says the man felt scared for his safety, especially when Blake was 'muttering words to herself”. He carried on driving until Lake St, when he noticed Blake had become distracted so stopped the vehicle and escaped with his keys.
Blake then left the vehicle, walked down an alleyway off Lake Street and encountered her second victim, getting into his vehicle as he prepared to drive home from work.
When he told Blake she was in the wrong car, she replied 'it's not a nice day to die” and demanded he drive her to the highway.
She also told him she possessed a gun and a knife. The victim could see the knife partly concealed up her sleeve.
'She became more aggressive and irritated and instructed him to continue driving to Rotorua.”
On the drive to Rotorua the man tried to engage Blake in conversation, but without eye contact 'to avoid aggravating her”.
'At one point the defendant said to the complainant that he was lucky because she could have stabbed him and taken his vehicle,” the summary says.
Blake also vomited in the car on the journey.
Jasmine Blake, 35, pleaded guilty in the Rotorua District Court to two charges of kidnap. Image: Stuff.
The summary also notes they encountered a police check point while driving into Rotorua, which Blake instructed the man to avoid, performing a U-turn, before seeing a second checkpoint.
Then Blake told him to take a side road, and they made their way into the CBD where the man was directed towards a bank ATM.
He withdrew $350 for Blake, who demanded $500.
His card then declined a further withdrawal, so he used another account to draw out a further $50 for Blake.
She then asked him to drive her to a Tarewa Road bus stop.
'At which point she exited the vehicle and walked off, taking his phone and money.”
The man then returned to the police checkpoint to report what had happened.
Blake later told police she had arranged to meet her second victim on Tinder, before discovering he was married 'at which point she blackmailed him for the money”.
Blake, who has previously appeared before the court, was remanded in custody until sentencing on November 6.
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