A judge has slammed his ‘wicked’ lies
A City banker who “made up” false claims he had been sexually harassed by a manager while wearing a string vest at work has been sent to jail and given a 150,000 court bill.
Damilare Ajao worked for German finance giant Commerzbank in its client life cycle management team in London in 2019 before being sacked in November of that year.
He claimed he was pestered by a female manager who “flirtatiously” told him she could see his nipples and tried to touch his Gucci belt buckle in the staff canteen.
Ajao subsequently brought an Employment Tribunal claim against the bank, including claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault against the manager, identified in court only as “Ms Q”.
The allegations centred on claims that the manager had made a sexualised comment about a string vest that he was wearing being visible through his shirt, and that he had been forced to slap her hand away when she reached out towards his designer belt.
His claim was thrown out, however, with the tribunal judge Anthony Snelson finding that the sexual harassment and assault allegations “were false and in large part made up”.
The case subsequently went to the High Court, where Mr Ajao was on Friday jailed for 20 months by Mr Justice Martin Spencer for “serious contempt of court”.
The judge also handed the separated father-of-two, who lives in Medway, Kent, a 150,000 bill towards the bank's lawyer's costs of bringing the contempt case.
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A judge has slammed his ‘wicked’ lies A City banker who “made up” false claims he had been sexually harassed by a manager while wearing a string vest at work has been sent to jail and given a 150,0...