Man testifies how he lost 339K to a woman he met at a Lavington club
James Mwangi Kiaritha has tendered his evidence in court of how he met a lady, Laura Oyier Ogolla, at a club in Lavington on March 15, 2025, and proceeded to have coffee with her, where he lost his senses and woke up to insufficient funds in his accounts.
Appearing before Milimani Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi on Thursday, October 9, 2025, Mwangi said that it was the first time he met with Laura at the club, and they were seated at separate tables before she joined him at a coffee shop where he was drinking beer (White Cap) and coffee.
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He told the court that it was at the coffee shop, after the lady joined him, that he started experiencing dizziness that he could not explain.
Mwangi told the court that he later paid for the drinks they took at the coffee shop, and he went on to drop Laura at her house at the Winchester Gardens apartment along Riverside Drive.
“I went to drop her off at Riverside, and when I got there, I remembered the gate because my cousin lives there. However, when I got to the door of the house, I got dizzy,” Mwangi told the court.
“When she opened the door, I saw a lot of alcohol at the table, and the living room was empty; that is the last memory I remember of that house,” Mwangi stated in his testimony.
He later woke up at 5 pm, fully dressed, but his phone was dead.
Mwangi then left for his house, and when he got there, he tried ordering food online but was shocked when the orders could not go through since his accounts had insufficient funds.
He checked his messages and could not see any transactions he had made. He decided to contact his bank immediately, which confirmed there were money transfers to one number registered under Laura Oyier.
“I checked messages, and nothing showed any transactions. I contacted my bank, and they told me the money was wired to one number.
He later checked the recycle bin, and he found the messages of transactions there, and they were all done to 072****01 registered under Laura Oyier.
Mwangi told the court that the bank transactions were done in bits of Ksh10k, 100k, 4k, 200k and 21k and another one of Ksh4,900 from his phone that totalled Ksh339,900.
The court heard that Mwangi later notified his bank to cancel any online transactions because he was expecting some money to be sent to his account.
However, he revealed that he did not contact Laura or engage her to return the money to him but later resorted to reporting to police for further investigations and to recover the money.
Mwangi revealed to the court that Laura threatened him, warning him to handle their issue right since she knows how to go about it.
“She even went ahead to threaten me and told me that if I’m not going to handle this right, it’s because she is used to this and she knows how to go about it,” Mwangi told the court.
He further told the court that her calmness when they were at the police station and how she conversed with them after all she had done really scared him.
Hearing of the matter will proceed on December 8, 2025.
