TikTok star wins £16,000 after Zara staff pulled back curtain
A TikTok influencer who makes videos of herself trying on new clothes has won 20,000 euros in compensation after claiming she was effectively branded a thief by staff in a flagship Zara store.
Irish traveller Krystal Joyce, 20, claimed she was left upset when a female security guard pulled back the curtain of a changing room cubicle while she was partly dressed inside.
She told a court that she was held against her will in the changing area before being ‘interrogated’ in front of other shoppers, despite having done nothing wrong.
Ms Joyce claimed she was a victim of defamation as it had been implied within earshot and sight of other people that she had been ‘engaged in criminal activity’.
A judge agreed that she had been wronged and ordered that she be paid 20,000 euros in damages by Zara bosses and their security company.
Ms Joyce who has more than 122,000 followers on TikTok claimed she was falsely made out to be a criminal while trying on an outfit at Ireland’s largest Zara store in Blanchardstown shopping centre, Dublin.
