A former airline representation firm employee has been ordered to pay £85,000 after making false claims that her male boss stabbed her in the hand with a pen.
But Parivash Kiani stabbed herself and blamed her manager in an attempt to win a payout, according to a High Court hearing.
Kiani had sued her employer Aviareps, claiming the company was liable for her line manager stabbing her twice in the hand with a pen at her desk in February 2015, The Telegraph reported.
The mother-of-two produced two photographs, supposedly taken soon after the incident, showing puncture wounds to her right hand, and claimed she was mentally scarred by the ordeal.
But close examination of one image disclosed a document in the background of the photo dated long after the incident, and Kiani ultimately admitted the photos were fakes.
After losing an employment tribunal over the allegations in 2017 and then being found “fundamentally dishonest” in a subsequent county court claim in 2020, she was handed an £85,000 bill and a suspended sentence for contempt of court at the High Court in London.
Her former employers took her to the High Court in London, accusing her of contempt in using the fake pictures to bolster her claim against the company.