Woman who had one-night stand with Nigerian man she met in night club is ordered to pay him £25,000 after she accused him of r@pe

A woman who had a one-night-stand with a businessman she met in a nightclub has been ordered to pay him 25,000 after she launched a horrific campaign of harassment and falsely accused him of r@ping her. A sour High Court battle that Cynthia Chia refused to participate in came to an end when she was ordered to pay energy trader Idowu Ogunkanmi, 44, the five-figure amount for both harassment and libel. The court heard how Mr Ogunkanmi, who lives in Dubai but travels regularly for work, met Ms Chia in a London nightclub in 2015, but within months she began a sustained, relentless, and vindictive campaign of harassment that lasted almost nine years. Mr Ogunkanmi has been awarded 25,000 in damages after the High Court judge ruled he had faced years of harassment and malicious intent. Speaking to DailyMail, Ogunkanmi, a father-of-three, said: “When I met her she seemed perfectly normal. For someone to be that persistent for so long on a lie, I pray for her. There’s definitely something wrong with her, I don’t know what it is. “I met this person for less than 12 hours, that was it… to me that’s been the scariest part.” Mr Ogunkanmi says he was left traumatised and shocked by the allegations, explaining: “I think she is a very hateful and troublesome person and she lied for so many years about something like that, reposting the same thing.  “There were so many accusations: r@pe, stealing her kids, conniving with the Met Police, getting her pregnant. It was all just baseless accusations. The accusations were beyond belief. I only ever met her once in my life. “She probably thought I had a lot of money and was looking to extort me. Because I refused to be extorted, she started this hateful Instagram campaign on me and her friend.   “It’s unbelievable that anyone could come up with these kinds of things.” Mr Ogunkami says he is relieved by the legal victory but believes he should have been awarded more, “as it does not fully account for the depth of damage to my reputation and well-being.” Court documents show the pair met when Mr Ogunkanmi asked one of Ms Chia’s friends, Prisca Okoye, to pass on his number to her.They partied together at the Steam Bar in the Hilton Hotel, Paddington, west London, and proceeded to have a one-night stand in his room later that night.Mr Ogunkanmi then flew back to Dubai the following day, and despite only meeting once, they stayed in contact.However, by early 2016, their relationship exploded when Ms Chia accused him of having sx with Prisca Okoye, which they both denied. It was at this point that Ms Chia then began to repeatedly confront Mr Ogunkanmi about allegedly having sx with her friend, including threatening to destroy him and asking him to send her thousands of pounds. Mr Ogunkanmi, who admits he continued to speak to her about other matters, says he transferred her 250, which he believed was to cover her phone bill.However, the intimidating messages from Ms Chia then escalated with her threatening to tell his friends and repeatedly calling his workplace, sometimes more than 100 times a day, the court heard. Distressed by the harassment, Mr Ogunkanmi returned to London in May 2016 to report Ms Chia to the Met Police. She was arrested and questioned over the allegations in June that year before being bailed on the condition that she did not contact him or his colleagues. But just six weeks later, Ms Chia texted one of his colleagues, saying Mr Ogunkanmi “will spend the rest of his life in jail.” However, this was only the start. Mr Ogunkanmi’s world would come crashing down when Ms Chia then accused him of r@ping her in September 2016. He returned to London for a voluntary police interview in October 2017 and was subsequently cleared when detectives told him that no further action would be taken over the r@pe allegation. But by January 2018, she started to bombard him with calls again before setting up multiple Instagram profiles – with names including cindylicious11 and u_smell-nice-witch – where she would post defamatory statements, the court heard. In the flurry of posts, she repeatedly accused him of being a r@pist and shared his name and photo publicly. She also alleged that he had paid police officers and medical staff to destroy evidence. Ms Chia continued to share defamatory posts on Instagram over several years between January 2018 and at least December 2021. On December 31, 2021, she shared a photo of his face and claimed he had “drugged, r@ped and impregnated” her. In September 2022, the harassment continued on Twitter, now X, where she repeated the allegation that he was a r@pist.  She then made an Instagram account with the username rapist_trying_to_avoid_justice where she again shared photos of his face and published eight defamatory posts.  Amid the bombardment of false allegations, she also claimed he had abused her child, tagging the Met Police, Dubai Police and National Crime Agency.  Mr Ogunkanmi sued her for defamation amid her online claims that he was a r@pist, drugged her, bribed police officers and medical staff to destroy evidence, conspired to pervert the course of justice and abused her child. Mr Ogunkanmi also sued Ms Chia over harassment following her repeated calls to him and his workplace as well as threatening, damaging messages to his family and friends. Ms Chia did not appear in court and was not represented. Deputy High Court Judge Susie Alegre said she “has not engaged at all with the proceedings,” which resulted in a default judgment being ordered.The judge, therefore, only had to rule on the amount of damages to award against Ms Chia and whether any injunctive relief was required against her.Ms Chia was convicted of common assault in February and sentenced to 10 weeks in prison with a restraining order for five years.The judge also ruled that injunctive relief was justified to protect Mr Ogunkanmi’s reputation and his right to a private life. The judge added: It is clear that such injunctive relief is a necessary and proportionate measure to put a stop to the ongoing attacks on the Claimant.  The post Woman who had one-night stand with Nigerian man she met in night club is ordered to pay him 25,000 after she accused him of r@pe appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.