Popular Curvy Ex-Policewoman Linda Okello Wins Sh6.5m in Case Against Standard Media Group

A former Police officer Linda Okello has won Sh6.5 million in a case filed against the Standard Media Group over improper use of her image and likeness and the use of image for commercial and or publicity.

Through lawyer Tom Ojienda, Okello had moved to court seeking general damages for libel, aggravated and exemplary damages and costs of the suit.

Okello filed the case against the media group at a High Court in Nairobi in 2014.

Justice Asenath Ongeri granted her prayers in the case dealing a blow to the Standard Media Group.

"Judgment be and is hereby entered in favour of the plaintiff against the defendants jointly and severally in the sum of Sh6,500,000 together with costs of this suit and interests at court rates from the date of this judgment until payment in full," Justice Asenath Ongeri said.

Justice Ongeri also issued a mandatory injunction for the Standard Media Group to publish an apology.

The court also issued a permanent order against the defendants for carrying any publication using words or innuendo deemed libellous to Okello.

"A permanent injunction be and is hereby granted against the defendants whether by themselves, their agents and/or employees by publishing the defamatory words by innuendo similar in effect and/or substitute to the plaintiff."

In a statement after the ruling, Lawyer Ojienda said:

"We have just won an award of 6.5 Million for Linda Okello a former police officer improperly degraded by the improper sharing of her image and likeness and the use of her image for commercial gain and or publicity," he said in a statement on Twitter Wednesday evening.