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After engaging in a horrifying campaign of harassment and accusing a businessman of r@ping her, a lady who had a one-night encounter with him in a nightclub was ordered to pay him £25,000.

Cynthia Chia was forced to pay energy merchant Idowu Ogunkanmi, 44, the five-figure sum for both harassment and libel, ending a bitter High Court battle in which she declined to take part.

The court heard how Ms. Chia started a persistent, unrelenting, and vicious campaign of harassment that lasted nearly nine years after meeting Mr. Ogunkanmi, who resides in Dubai but travels frequently for work, in a London nightclub in 2015.

After the High Court judge determined that Mr. Ogunkanmi had endured years of harassment and malicious intent, he was granted £25,000 in damages.

Ogunkanmi, a father of three, told DailyMail: “She seemed completely normal when I first met her. I pray for her because she is the kind of person who will stick to a falsehood for so long. I’m not sure what it is, but there’s clearly something wrong with her.

“I met this person for less than 12 hours, that was it… to me that’s been the scariest part.”

Mr. Ogunkanmi adds, describing how the accusations traumatized and horrified him, added: “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.”

Despite his relief at the court’s decision, Mr. Ogunkami feels he should have received a larger award since “it does not fully account for the depth of damage to my reputation and well-being.”

According to court records, the two first connected when Mr. Ogunkanmi asked Prisca Okoye, a friend of Ms. Chia, to provide her his phone number.

Later that evening, they had a one-night stand in his room after partying together at the Steam Bar in the Hilton Hotel in Paddington, west London.

The next day, Mr. Ogunkanmi took a plane back to Dubai, and although though they had only met once, they continued to communicate.

Their relationship, however, fell apart in early 2016 after Ms. Chia accused him of having sex with Prisca Okoye, something they both disputed.

At this point, Ms. Chia started to approach Mr. Ogunkanmi on several occasions regarding the supposed s£x she had with her friend. She even threatened to destroy him and demanded that he send her thousands of pounds.

Mr. Ogunkanmi, who acknowledges that he kept talking to her about other things, claims that he sent her £250 because he thought it would pay her phone bill.

However, the court heard that Ms. Chia’s intimidating communications soon became more severe, with her threatening to notify his friends and calling his office numerous times, sometimes more than 100 times a day.

In May 2016, Mr. Ogunkanmi, distressed by the harassment, went back to London to inform the Met Police about Ms. Chia.

In June of that year, she was taken into custody and interrogated over the accusations; she was then released on bond, provided she did not get in touch with him or his associates.

However, Ms. Chia texted one of his coworkers six weeks later, stating that Mr. Ogunkanmi “will spend the rest of his life in jail.”

But this was just the beginning. When Ms. Chia accused Mr. Ogunkanmi of r@ping her in September 2016, his entire life fell apart.

When investigators informed him that no further action would be taken over the r@pe allegation, he was cleared after returning to London for a voluntary police interview in October 2017.

However, the court heard that by January 2018, she had resumed calling him and then created many Instagram accounts, including cindylicious11 and u_smell-nice-witch, where she would write disparaging remarks.

She publicly posted his identity and photo and accused him of being a r@pist on multiple occasions in the barrage of posts. In addition, she claimed that he had paid medical personnel and police officials to remove evidence.

From January 2018 until at least December 2021, Ms. Chia persisted in posting disparaging content on Instagram for a number of years.

She posted a picture of his face on December 31, 2021, and said he had “drugged, r@ped, and impregnated” her.

The harassment persisted in September 2022 on Twitter, which is now X, where she reiterated the claim that he was a r@pist.

After that, she created an Instagram account under the handle rapist_trying_to_avoid_justice, where she posted eight disparaging remarks and once more included pictures of his face.

She also accused him of abusing her child amid the barrage of unfounded claims, blaming the National Crime Agency, Dubai Police, and the Met Police.

In response to her internet accusations that he was a r@pist, drugged her, harmed her child, plotted to sway the course of justice, and bribed police officers and medical personnel to erase evidence.

In addition, Mr. Ogunkanmi filed a harassment lawsuit against Ms. Chia after she harassed him and his place of employment repeatedly and sent him derogatory and threatening letters to his friends and family.

Ms. Chia was not represented and did not show up for court. Judge Susie Alegre of the Deputy High Court said that she “has not engaged at all with the proceedings,” leading to the issuance of a default decision.

Therefore, the judge just needed to decide how much money to give Ms. Chia in damages and whether she needed any kind of injunction.

In February, Ms. Chia was found guilty of common assault and given a 10-week prison sentence along with a five-year restraining order.

In order to safeguard Mr. Ogunkanmi’s reputation and his right to privacy, the judge also decided that injunctive action was warranted.

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.”

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