(Simon Lyons)
On October 23, local time, the British "Daily Mail" reported a ridiculous case: a 43-year-old CEO of a real estate company not only sent hundreds of abusive and offensive messages to them and their relatives and friends after falling out with two partners, but also sent a bag of feces to a colleague's lawyer through Amazon, and the once accomplished business person is currently paying a price of 300,000 pounds (about 2.67 million yuan) for court proceedings. Advance payment of 190,000 pounds (about 1.7 million yuan).
(Simon Lyons and Farid Arizadeh)
The protagonist of this case is Simon Lyons, 43 years old, graduated from Clifton College, Bristol's top public school, and in 2004, Lyons invested millions of pounds in his early 20s with his peer friend Farid Alizade to set up Enstar Capital Ltd, a real estate investment firm in London's West End, England. The two have worked on projects worth more than £100 million (about 890 million yuan).
(Andrew Rahamingyue)
Andrew Rahamim, 36, joined the real estate investment firm as an employee in 2012, and in 2017, Mr. Lahamel became a director and minority shareholder, at which point Mr. Lyons and Mr. Alizadeh together owned 40 percent of the company.
The company was already running vibrantly, but since 2017, the relationship between Lyons and the other two co-directors, Alizadeh and Rahamel, has "broken violently", and by May 2021, the relationship between the two parties has been "completely broken".
As it happened, since 2017, Lyons' behavior has become "problematic", he often "rude" and "abused" directors, employees, customers and others in the same department, including Alizadeh and Rahamel, and after being refuted by the other side, Lyons launched a larger "harassment campaign" against the two partners, targeting themselves, their families (including Rahamine's 70-year-old father), their business contacts, Leaders of their religious groups sent hundreds of abusive emails.
Lyons has been cursing unscrupulously in the mail. Multiple emails shown in court by Judge Jaron Lewis showed Lyons calling his former friend Arizadeh useless like a pair of old panties, "farting" all morning and claiming that "my fart is more useful than this guy's fart."
In an email copied to Rahamel, Lyons wrote that Alizadeh walked in at 1:22 with lunch, was busy all day, did nothing, created zero business for us, and "even if I had been smoking marijuana for the next 1,000 years, I was more efficient than this clown." ”
In another email, Lyons said everyone knew Arizadeh was a "dishonest bastard" and "useless like worn-out panties."
On May 21, when Lyons was suspended from the company and his email account was locked, Lyons did a hilarious thing by going to his office, locking the computer and furniture in the boardroom, and leaving with his only key.
In addition to sending hundreds of attack emails to Alizadeh and Rahamel's contacts and friends around the world, Lyons also committed an even more outrageous act by sending a package through Amazon to a lawyer for the Alizad family trust company containing "two shovels, fake money, farm fertilizer (aka poop) and handcuffs."
Alizadeh, Rahamel and their 70-year-old father took Lyons to court, and all said the harassment had had a serious impact on them, such as feeling stressed, distressed and fearful, and even afraid of email.
(Farid Alizadeh)
Lyons denied his harassment, but Justice Lewis ruled last week that Lyons' conduct constituted harassment and barred him from harassing the three men, and the judge also said Lyons had to pay the legal fees of the others, paying £190,000 before a full assessment, for an expected total of £300,000.
SOURCE: DAILYMAIL, BING