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Bank worker harassed his female boss 'because she flirted like Sharon Stone'

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 09:21 EST, 20 October 2011

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Victim: Sonya Reddy was harassed by Richardo Vinagre at RBS, the court heard

A computer expert at a bank harassed his female boss because he thought she was behaving like Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct, a court heard yesterday.

Ricardo Vinagre, 38, believed Sonya Reddy had flirted with him, wearing deliberately provocative clothing.

When his contract was not renewed he was seen hiding behind pillars outside the RBS offices in central London.

Vinagre also insulted Mrs Reddy to colleagues when she rejected him, City of London Magistrates’ Court heard. He approached them and ‘ranted’ about her, claiming she was having an affair with her boss.

A fellow worker warned Mrs Reddy to avoid bumping into Vinagre in a dark alley because he was ‘out to get her’.

Mrs Reddy denied she had flirted with Vinagre at any time and told how she suffered a panic attack and was unable to sleep because of his behaviour.

Vinagre denied harassing his manager but was found guilty.

In the 1992 thriller, Sharon Stone plays a novelist who attempts to seduce a detective played by Michael Douglas.

Vinagre had told the court that Mrs Reddy had acted like ‘something out of a Sharon Stone movie’ at a contract renewal meeting last November.

He claimed she had dressed provocatively for the occasion, in a low-cut white t-shirt.

‘She was talking to me and sometimes she was bending over, eyes wide open as if I was saying something really amazing. It looked like an act, it was not real,’ he said.

‘It looked like she had prepared it and she had dressed in a way to emphasise the way she was moving.

‘She was trying to get me to renew my contract by acting as if she was attracted to me, but it just didn’t resonate as fact.’

Guilty: Ricardo Vinagre, 38, thought married IT project manager Mrs Reddy was flirting with him

Guilty: Ricardo Vinagre claimed he thought married IT project manager Mrs Reddy was flirting with him

Edward Lewis, the presiding magistrate, said Vinagre would have known his comments to former colleagues would get back to Mrs Reddy.

Provocative: Court was told Mrs Reddy was behaving like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

Provocative: Vinagre alleged that Mrs Reddy was behaving like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct

He added: ‘These communications did amount to harassment.’

Vinagre, from Islington, north London, was given a two-year conditional discharge and a restraining order banning him from contacting the victim.

He was also ordered to pay her £250 compensation and make a £125 contribution towards court costs.

Mrs Reddy, who has been married for 18 months and is six months pregnant, said Vinagre stormed out of a work ice skating trip early because he felt she wasn’t paying him enough attention.

He also sent her a series of internet chat messages in December last year. Then in January, he phoned her at work when his contract with RBS was not renewed.

She told the court: ‘He said it was because he had feelings for me and that he felt I used to flirt with him in work.

‘He said I used to dress provocatively and wear revealing clothing to try and seduce him.’

Asked if there had ever been a romantic relationship between them, Mrs Reddy replied: ‘Of course not.’

She said: ‘I told him that I felt it was completely inappropriate he would ring me up in the workplace and say things like that. I asked him not to contact me or anyone I worked with again.’

But even after Vinagre left her team he continued to contact former colleagues and criticise her behaviour.

‘I felt he was trying to jeopardise my marriage,’ she said.

‘I work in such a male-dominated environment already and I just felt that you have to work much harder as a female to be taken seriously.’