A gold digging Zimbabwean nurse has been ordered by a court in the UK to pay back her wealthy fiancé £100 000. She had been found in bed w...
A gold digging Zimbabwean nurse has been ordered by a court
in the UK to pay back her wealthy fiancé £100 000. She had been found in bed
with another man.
Trish Garikayi, 37, was so angered by the ruling that she
hurled her engagement ring across the court to her finance. She had claimed
that she was a “kept woman” during her six-year relationship with 58-year-old
businessman Wisdom Penfold, receiving presents including a Porsche 911 and a
£100,000 diamond bracelet,
The Evening Standard reports that Mr Penfold insisted Miss
Garikayi “misappropriated” money while he was blinded by love, spending large
sums that he had earmarked for them to buy a home together.
The couple split in 2015 when Mr Penfold found her in bed
with another man, leading to a bitter court fight over money. Judge Alexander
Hill-Smith yesterday ruled in Mr Penfold’s favour, ordering Miss Garikayi to
pay back £116,000, hand over 20 per cent of her £340,000 home, and settle
£62,000 of legal bills.
Central London county court heard the couple got together
after meeting in a hospital cafe in 2009, and they became engaged four years
later. But Mr Penfold was left
devastated when he returned home in 2015 to find Miss Garikayi in bed with
another man.
Miss Garikayi claimed the couple had already split, but
Judge Hill-Smith said he believed Mr Penfold’s “compelling” account of the end
of their “perfect” relationship.
The court heard £218,000 had been paid into Miss Garikayi’s
account after Mr Penfold sold two investment properties, but she insisted it
was a gift because “if I wanted something, I would get it”.
It was claimed Mr Penfold whisked her away on luxury
holidays to Paris, Spain, Indonesia, and Dubai, and bought her a Porsche, a BMW
and a Mercedes and the £100,000 bracelet.
But Mr Penfold denied being so generous: “I think if I gave
£100,000 for a bracelet I would quite remember it. I think it would be welded
in my brain for the rest of my life.”
He accepted buying Miss Garikayi presents, including a
Burberry coat and Jimmy Choo shoes, but denied handing over large sums of money
or ever buying her a car.
His barrister Richard Alford said Miss Garikayi insisted on
the £218,000 deposit into her account to mark “the seriousness of their
relationship”.
“He did as requested, instructing her that the funds were
to be held in the account and not used unless he said so”, said Mr Alford.
However Miss Garikayi then spent money on herself,
including £91,000 to buy a property in Harare, Zimbabwe, without his
permission, the court heard.
The judge ruled that Mr Penfold had also paid a £35,000
deposit on Miss Garikayi’s property in Guildford which she bought for £275,000
in 2015, and funded refurbishments and two mortgage payments. This spending now
entitled him to a share of the property.
Miss Garikayi now has six months to buy her ex out of the
Guildford property or it will be sold and the proceeds divided. evening standard
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