Young mum Tyla Oxborough avoids jail over Facebook sex plot robbery

A man who agreed to meet a young mum hours after becoming Facebook friends online was robbed by her brothers, in a crime a judge described as “pathetically amateurish”.

A young mother who baited a stranger on Facebook with sex so he could be robbed by her brothers welcomed the victim into her home wearing nothing but a coat, a court has heard.

Tyla Oxborough helped her two brothers and their pal “entrap” the man just hours after making ‘friends’ with him on social media.

In a crime described by a judge as “pathetically amateurish”, the random man was invited to the siblings‘ Williams Landing home, where threats were made to “cap you with my gun” unless he handed over cash, in 2019.

The last of four offenders, all aged in their 20s, were this week sentenced over the “foolish escapade”.

The County Court heard Brandon Oxborough, his half-brother Seth Hoober and co-accused Justin Siaoloa devised a plan to “lure” their victim through Tyla’s Facebook account ”on the pretext of a sexual encounter at which point the male would be robbed”.

Their mark was chosen at 7.30am on November 2, 2019, and three hours later, upon being asked to come over and bring drugs, the man parked his ute behind the family’s home and walked into their open garage.

Described by Tyla “as a 40-year-old man with drugs trying to get young girls”, she welcomed him with an embrace and he kissed her on the cheek.

“He noticed she was not wearing any clothes under her coat,” the court heard.

Tyla’s brothers looked in the man’s car before entering the home.

The stranger and Tyla, then 24, sat on the couch in the garage while her brothers and Siaoloa looked in his car.

When the trio then entered the garage and surrounded the victim, Tyla left.

The court was told that Brandon – confined to a wheelchair after becoming a paraplegic from a motorcycle accident – spoke “about his sister not being a s**t and what he would do to the next guy she brought over”.

As the man tried to leave, Brandon, then 22, said, ‘You’re not going anywhere. Maybe I’ll cap you with my gun.”

Following demands for $1000, which he didn‘t have, the victim was threatened with an extendable baton and told he would be “f***ed” if he didn’t hand over cash.

After robbing him of his phone, smartwatch and ute – which contained his wallet, a laptop and iPad – he was told to wait on a nearby corner for his car, which was never returned.

Posing as the victim, Brandon then used the man‘s phone to message his mother and demanded $500 – a transfer that was ultimately traced to his account by police.

Tyla claimed she was a “young widowed single mother of a seven-month-old baby”.

The next day, Siaoloa was a passenger in a stolen car pursued by the cops and was found hiding near the abandoned car with the victim‘s ID and stolen iPad.

Siaoloa told police “it was all Brandon‘s idea”, and that he had spoken to the victim via his sister’s Facebook page.

Judge Frank Gucciardo sentenced all four offenders and described their crime as “pathetically amateurish, not well thought out, bound to fail and essentially foolish”.

In 2021, Tyla – a “young widowed single mother of a seven-month-old baby” – was spared jail because she would “find imprisonment extremely distressing”.

Her brother Brandon was sentenced to nine months jail while Siaoloa, then 26, received seven months behind bars.

On Tuesday, Hoober – just 19 at the time of the crime – was handed a two-year community corrections order after Judge Gucciardo found his impaired mental functioning could further deteriorate in custody.