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28 year old Spa owner Kayode Modupe-Ojo
said he lost everything after he was arrested and put in jail for
alleged rape. Something he never did and said if the police had checked
his phone when they were investigating the false accusation, they would
have realised that.
The businessman, who once dated David
Beckham's sister Joanne Beckham, said his reputation has been destroyed
and he lost his business because of this false claim by a woman he met
on the internet and is now suing the police for failing to investigate
properly,
malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment.
According to UK Daily Mail,
Modupe-Ojo,was arrested at his home in Cheshire shortly after spending two days with the woman. His
accuser gave a harrowing but entirely false account of being tied up
and moved around the north-east of England against her will, after a
sexual encounter turned terrifyingly violent.
Kayode, who has lived in Britain since the age of three, was
dragged from his bed by the police, handcuffed and questioned for three
days without legal representation before being charged with multiple
counts of rape and kidnapping.
On the basis of the woman’s lies, Durham Police declared he was ‘a danger to women’ and he was remanded in jail for three weeks.
Last
week the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee called for people
accused of sexual offences to be given anonymity. Mr Modupe-Ojo’s lawyer
has referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Paul
Schofield, of Farleys Solicitors, said: ‘It illustrates the flaws of a
legal system that names and shames those accused of sex crimes, without
giving them any protection when the accusations turn out to be untrue. Even
though it was obvious in court that the woman lied and lied, she is
still protected by the legal system because no criminal charges have so
far been brought against her.
'As things
stands she has a lifetime anonymity while my client remains tainted by
the abhorrent stigma of a rape charge. It’s also clearly a case that
would not have gone to trial if the police had done their jobs
correctly. It was as if they couldn’t be bothered.’
Mr
Modupe-Ojo was acquitted when his trial at Newcastle Crown Court
collapsed last year due to glaring discrepancies in the prosecution
case.
But
he said that by then the damage had already been done. ‘The judge
directed the jury to acquit me, but my reputation was left in tatters,’
he says. ‘There are people out there who think, “no smoke without fire”.
‘It is
grossly unfair that my details have been in the media, while my accuser
gets away without a blemish to her name. Rape is one of the most
repulsive crimes there is.
‘A
false claim not only ruins the lives of innocent men, but it damages
their families. I did nothing wrong and yet this case almost destroyed
me.’
He
is supporting demands that men accused of rape also
remain anonymous, unless convicted.
What Mr Modupe-Ojo describes as ‘the most
terrifying period’ in his life began in August 2013 when he responded to
a ‘friend request’ on Facebook from a beautiful blonde woman he had
never met before. The law prevents us from naming her even though the
court found her allegations to be entirely false
He says:
‘She was very attractive. We texted and Skyped each other before
meeting. She was the driving force behind our meeting and I was
flattered by her attention.’
During
their time together Mr Modupe-Ojo took the woman to restaurants, a club
and they stayed in two hotels which she booked and paid for. He also
drove her home to pack an overnight bag and spent 30 minutes talking
with her mother.
‘My
accuser was alone in her room upstairs and could have used her phone to
call for help if I had been the mad rapist she made me out to be,’ he
added. ‘I told all of this to the police questioning me.
'I also gave them the passwords to my phone and laptop so they could check the correspondence between us.’
He
still has text messages she sent after they parted. There were also
numerous CCTV images of the pair cuddling, kissing and holding hands.
Source: UK Daily Mail
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