A travel agent has been ordered to pay an 85,000 court bill after making 'extraordinary' false claims that her male boss stabbed her in the hand with a pen at her desk.
Parivash Kiani, 52, sued travel marketing company Aviareps PLC, based in Brentford, claiming the employers were liable for failing to protect her in February 2015.
The mother-of-two said she had been left mentally scarred and produced two photographs showing puncture wounds to her right hand - allegedly caused by her line manager.
However, close analysis of one of the images showed a document in the background dated a significant period of time after the incident, before Ms Kiani admitted that the pictures were fake.
Her former employers took her to the High Court last week accusing her of contempt in using the faked photographs to bolster her claim during an employment tribunal with the company.
After losing the initial tribunal fight over the allegations and being found 'fundamentally dishonest' in a subsequent county court claim, Ms Kiani has now been handed an 85,000 bill and suspended sentence for contempt of court at the High Court.
Outlining the case, Mr Justice Martin Spencer told the court: 'She must have deliberately in 2017 stabbed herself twice in the hand, waited for the stab wound to scab over, and then either herself - or through another person - taken these pictures of her hand in order to pretend that they were photos taken in February 2015 two years earlier, and represented the position as...
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