Lawyer had sex to ‘punish’ date for her saggy breasts
A jilted lawyer was arrested at his plush London offices after he told an internet date he only had sex with her to punish her for being fat and having saggy breasts.
Victor Kruchinkin, 32, called Christiana Amao a ‘gobby ethnic from Zone 8’ in a series of abusive Facebook messages.
Kruchinkin worked for Adams & Remers Solictors in Pall Mall and met Ms Amao, from Fulham, on the dating app Bumble.
They hooked up twice before Ms Amao decided to end their affair.
Kruchinkin then sent her a series of messages, saying he was a pyschopath and she was ‘lucky to still be alive.’
Prosecutor Gregor McKinley told Southwark Crown Court: ‘A series of messages were sent on social media to Ms Amao all on 28 December last year.
‘The defendant met Ms Amao on a dating application called Bumble some time around the middle of December last year.
‘They met on two occasions, the 26 and 27 of December but on the 28 December Ms Amao came to the conclusion that this wasn’t a relationship that she wanted to continue.
‘She sent a message in the evening saying she didn’t think it had a future. The defendant sent her this stream of messages that form the facts of this case.
‘He said she was ‘lucky to still be alive’.
‘He said ‘You’re lucky I decided to leave my machete at the hotel on this occasion’.
‘He referred to her as something he called a gobby ethnic from Zone 8,’ explained Mr McKinley.
Kruchinkin added: ‘I f**ked you as punishment for wasting my time, for being fat and for having saggy tits, for having a loose pussy and for being overweight.
‘You genuinely nearly made me throw up.
‘You invited a psycho into your bed, you had no idea.
‘This is the very definition of recklessness. You’re lucky to be alive right now and I suggest you make the most of the life you still have.’
Mr McKinley said Kruchinkin told her he had created a false Facebook account to seduce her and she would never be able to trace him.
Ms Amao went to the police and they found Kruchinkin was a practicing solicitor.
Kruchinkin was arrested at the office on January 8 and admitted sending the messages but denied they were designed to cause ‘annoyance or anxiety.’
In a statement read to the court Ms Amao said: ‘I was unable to leave my house for the first few days for fear he was around the corner.
‘I was extremely worried he would try and take my life. I believe that the crime was motivated by race because he used the N word.’
Defence counsel Tahir Ali said: ‘He did make a veiled threat. He met her on a dating website and he shared a night of intimacy with her.
‘In relation to whether this offence was racially aggravated, it is my submission that it was not.’
Mr Ali told the court Kruchinkin ‘dished out insults,’ but he said: ‘The motivation for that wasn’t really her ethnicity.
‘The majority of the messages that you have heard or read are something you would expect to be written by adolescent boys – they were crude.
‘Mr Kruchinkin was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, he has a propensity to speak his mind without thinking through the consequences.
‘That may explain why Mr Kruchinkin wasn’t able to hold himself back – quite strange for a solicitor who worked for a commercial firm in the city.
‘He is a newly qualified solicitor, he has to bear the punishment that this court will impose.
‘He was employed by Adams & Remers solicitors. He was arrested at his work place and humiliated.
‘He has lost his job. He faces proceedings at the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal and that will commence one these proceedings conclude,’ explained Mr Ali.
‘His career and all he has worked for is now in jeopardy.
‘He is somebody who, in my view, is socially inept. He may be good academically, he may be good at his job but socially? Not so much.’
‘The sad reality is he will be unemployable.
‘Mr Kruchinkin was displaced, what he takes to be displacement, by being sent to boarding school and he takes that to be a rejection by his parents towards him.
‘He has suffered rejection in life and doesn’t take too kindly to it.’
Kruchinkin was originally sentenced at magistrates’ court to six weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months along with 100 hours unpaid work and 25 days of rehabilition activity.
He appealed against sentence and his suspended prison sentence was lifted along with a restraining order that barred Kruchinkin from contacting Ms Amao.
Judge Sally Cahill told him: ‘We take the view that you showed remorse, you have a positive good character. This was an isolated incident carried out on one day.
‘We revoke the restraining order imposed by the magistrates’ court. To that extent this appeal is successful.’
Kruchinkin, of Fordwych Road, Kilburn, northwest London, had admitted a charge of persistently making use of the public communications network to cause annoyance or anxiety.
His sentence was reduced to a 12 month community order, 100 hours of unpaid work and 15 days of rehabilitation activity.
