I’ve been bundled into a van, held hostage and threatened at knifepoint aged 18 because of my job – but I’ll never quit

A YOUNG pistillate has been robbed astatine knifepoint and held hostage portion doing her occupation - but says she won’t discontinue arsenic she’s making excessively overmuch money.

Amy, 23, has been successful her enactment of enactment since the property of 18 and has described immoderate of her astir harrowing experiences, including being bundled into a van.

She is an escort and claims galore of her customers person been the affluent and famous, revealing however she gets paid to be lavish parties and mingle with A-list guests.

Amy - who did not privation to springiness her afloat sanction - told The Sun: “You tin dice doing this job. That's wherefore I archer radical not to bash it, you tin virtually die.”

Asked if that doesn’t scare her, the Londoner said: “I mean, it’s done present isn’t it. You tin dice anywhere. I’m older now, the brainsick guys thin to target the caller girls - I’m amended astatine spotting the reddish flags now.”

She refuses to uncover however overmuch she’s making annually - but since July she’s been surviving successful Australia wherever escorts connected mean complaint overmuch much than the UK.

“When I was a teen it was either this oregon moving successful a warehouse for f***ing Amazon oregon someone,” Amy said.

“I thought, moving 12 hours consecutive for £9.50 an hr - there’s nary mode I’m doing that.”

She added: “It was conscionable astir the money, initially, and I recovered I’m bully astatine it.”

Amy began moving successful the big manufacture anterior to the Covid pandemic and was making £140 an hour, often seeing six clients a time connected average.

“I would instrumentality a period disconnected here, a period disconnected determination due to the fact that I was earning enough,” she said.

“Before Covid the rates were little but due to the fact that of inflation, it’s similar treble now.” 

Amy started doing ‘out calls’, which saw her carrying retired bookings astatine clients’ homes oregon hotels.

During the pandemic - aft lockdown measures were partially lifted successful summer 2020 she adjacent met joined customers successful alleyways oregon down the broadside of their homes.

“The weirdest 1 was a children's playhouse successful a man’s garden,” she explained. 

“It was truly weird, but you conscionable person to marque bash with what you have.”

Amy said their wives and children were usually wrong the homes astatine the time, adding: “It’s f***ed up.”

Asked if the men’s partners ever knew astir the bookings, she said: “I presume not. If they cognize it’s happening the woman is usually successful the booking arsenic well. I’ve seen a fewer couples.” 

Amy advertises her services connected assorted sites, which often complaint astatine astir £150 a week.

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She present mostly does in-calls, which sees clients travel to her home.

When she started successful the industry, she signed up to an bureau which provided her with a driver.

“They dispersed the enactment retired truthful that they'll lone springiness girls similar 2 jobs a night, truthful that they support coming backmost for much money,” she explained. 

“If the girls get bully wealth successful 1 nighttime they won't travel backmost the next day.”

She said she was sat successful the car with her operator 1 nighttime and was getting offered backstage bookings.

“I said let’s ditch the bureau and we’ll conscionable spell bash these ourselves and I’ll wage you myself.

“I fundamentally conscionable poached him from an agency. He's a bully guy.”

Amy’s bookings person ranged from 15 minutes to overnight - with her operator besides acting arsenic her bodyguard.

“The operator sits extracurricular and you bash similar check-ins with them. If you don't cheque in, past the operator comes into the gathering and comes and gets you,” she said.

Without this support, Amy said she would surely beryllium dead.

Sinister clients person tried to douse her with drugs, portion others person robbed her oregon adjacent held her hostage erstwhile they couldn’t spend to wage the complaint for a meeting.

“A radical of guys erstwhile tried to enactment maine successful the backmost of a van - immoderate volition support you hostage,” she said.

“If they can't wage to widen the bookings, but they privation to support going they'll conscionable fastener you wrong the house, and past your operator has to travel successful and prevention you.”

She added:  “You tin dice doing this job. That's wherefore I archer radical not to bash it, you tin virtually die.

“The brainsick guys thin to target the caller girls, truthful they'll spell aft teenagers oregon the girls who person conscionable started out. 

“Now I hardly person immoderate problems due to the fact that I'm older truthful there's little risk. I've got much experience.”

Amy has go bully astatine spotting the reddish flags, adjacent arsenic soon arsenic imaginable clients archetypal interaction - and successful specified cases volition not hold to a booking. 

“Sometimes you tin archer successful the mode they message, which you don't cognize erstwhile you archetypal start. “When you person experience, you tin conscionable tell, particularly successful London. 

“But if you garbage 1 booking, idiosyncratic other volition capable the slot - similar there's truthful galore people. It's conscionable it's ne'er ending.”

If a lawsuit wants her to support her determination longer than the booking, she said they’ll support asking for “five much minutes” oregon if she wants different drink.

“They'll conscionable travel up with immoderate dumb happening to accidental to support you there,” she said, but she ever refuses if they haven’t paid and she feels unsafe. She said the cardinal is to “keep my cool”, which she’s learned the hard way.

“I utilized to footwear disconnected and I've been like, no, fto maine f*** retired - and that's erstwhile it escalates.”

Amy said it’s not needfully arsenic convulsive arsenic radical imagine.

She described however immoderate men volition “keep you determination with knives” but usually if they don’t privation her to permission they conscionable artifact disconnected the mode retired oregon adjacent fastener the door.

However, she ever ensures she has her telephone and tin alert her driver.

“It's ne'er taken him longer than similar 5 minutes,” Amy said. 

“You ne'er springiness distant your telephone ever, and you ever support it by you. That's his job. His occupation is operator and security. If I don't continually connection him, past helium knows something's incorrect anyway. 

“We person systems successful place. Obviously, I don't privation to archer excessively overmuch due to the fact that past everyone volition cognize my system, and I’ll die,” she said laughing.

When specified encounters occur, she said she’ll instrumentality a interruption for arsenic agelong arsenic 3 months to realign.

“If you're astute with your wealth and you prevention it, past you tin instrumentality clip disconnected erstwhile atrocious things happen,” she said.

But, peculiarly successful the UK, Amy said immoderate men volition simply marque a fake booking with the volition of robbing an escort, peculiarly the younger ones.

“It conscionable happens consecutive distant arsenic soon arsenic you unfastened the door,” she said.

“It could beryllium 1 guy, oregon 2 oregon 3 crook up. At the extremity of the day, radical presumption escorts arsenic casual wealth if they’re working. That they tin bash immoderate they privation to us.”

One of her astir horrific experiences portion moving saw her astir bundled into a van by a radical of men during a booking astatine a house. 

“I was halfway done the booking, and they indispensable person been waiting and watching, I don't know,” Amy said. 

“But past a large radical conscionable swarms in, and they take maine out to the backmost garden… there's an alleyway and they were threatening maine but I don’t truly retrieve much.”

Amy said primitively her clients were often overmuch younger, but arsenic her prices person gone up and she’s moved to Australia, they thin to beryllium older. 

“I'm getting older, it's mostly my property and the mode I look,” she added, referring to her tattoos.

And portion she continues to escort, Amy has besides done porn and successful 2022 signed up to OnlyFans.

Her moving patterns are overmuch much flexible, and she charges betwixt £300 and £350 an hr for her sex services, not including extras.

She said her household and friends are supportive of her enactment of work.

“I'm precise lucky, my friends enactment me,” she said, adding that contempt her adjacent calls: “I've ne'er had an brushwood with anybody wherever they've been genuinely horrible to my face, telling maine I’m vile oregon whatever.”

Instead, it’s online trolls who springiness her the astir abuse. 

“The worst 1 I got was idiosyncratic messaged maine and said ‘I anticipation you get quality trafficked and get HIV and dice a dilatory death’. 

“I was like, that's conscionable crazy, broski. That's a brainsick happening to accidental to somebody.

“And to permission the integer footprint of it arsenic well… that's successful achromatic and white, it’s conscionable dumb.”

However, she said she’s heavy skinned astir it all. “I don't truly care, I ne'er have,” she said.

“These are the aforesaid guys who are drooling and getting semis successful nationalist erstwhile they spot anybody remotely attractive. They’d emotion maine if I didn’t charge.”

In presumption of her ain emotion life, she said she had her lone fellow aft she started successful the manufacture but is presently happily single.

“I'm lone 23, I don't truly privation a narration due to the fact that I deliberation I'm excessively young. I person had 1 boyfriend, which I was excessively young for. But it was a nice relationship, if I had been older and much mature it mightiness person lasted longer. 

“Most of the enactment workers that I cognize are married, truthful it's not uncommon to beryllium successful a committed relationship.”

And portion she won’t uncover immoderate specifics, Amy said she’s had celebrity clients too.

“Rich radical emotion hookers,” she said. “We're known for discretion. They prosecute america for parties wherever fractional the clip we conscionable locomotion around, beryllium connected people's laps. You don't adjacent person to bash much. 

“It was much communal erstwhile I was younger, due to the fact that evidently I was 18 - I didn’t person the tattoos yet and wasn’t arsenic recognisable.”

Asked however overmuch she earns a year, she laughed and said: “I volition ne'er reply that question.”