A saleswoman faked a doctor's note about cancer treatment and lied about evidence of sexual assaults in two failed employment tribunals, a court has heard.
Louise Gallagher made a sex discrimination claim against distribution and outsourcing company Bunzl after leaving her job there in 2018, and later made an unfair dismissal claim after leaving her job at health product supplier Essity in 2023.
In both cases, she made "strikingly similar" claims she had been sexually harassed, but these were dismissed when she was found to have repeatedly lied.
At Wood Green Crown Court on Tuesday, 50-year-old Gallagher, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, admitted three counts of perverting the course of justice.
She was bailed ahead of sentencing on 19 May.
Two further allegations of perverting the course of justice, relating to her disputed claims of sexual assault, are set to lie on file.
A 2024 employment tribunal ruling sets out how Gallagher alleged she had been sexually assaulted by a Bunzl colleague, shortly after an investigation was launched into whether she had submitted a fraudulent bill for a hotel stay on expenses.
While mounting a case against the firm in 2020 and 2021, she made a series of false claims that Transport for London (TfL) had CCTV footage to support her sexual assault allegation.
But TfL denied providing Gallagher with information, and told Bunzl's lawyers that any CCTV footage would already have been wiped.
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