Travel agent lied that boss stabbed her with a pen and now it’s cost her £85,000

Parivash Kiani was discovered to be dishonest in courtroom (Image: Champion Information)

A lady has been spared jail after making up a narrative about her boss attacking her with a Biro at work.

Parivash Kiani sued journey company Aviareps, saying her line supervisor, Fawad Shaida, stabbed her within the hand twice with a pen at her desk in February 2015.

She confirmed photos of puncture wounds to her proper hand and sued for psychological scarring.

Nonetheless, a doc within the background that was dated lengthy after the alleged incident proved that she was mendacity.

Kiani has now been given a suspended jail sentence for contempt of courtroom and was handed an £85,000 courtroom invoice.

Decide, Mr Justice Martin Spencer, mentioned: ‘She should have intentionally in 2017 stabbed herself twice within the hand, waited for the stab wound to scab over, after which both herself – or via one other individual – taken these photos of her hand to be able to faux that they have been photographs taken in February 2015 two years earlier, and represented the place on account of the alleged assault.’

It emerged that Kiani had been disciplined in January 2015 for breaching consumer confidentiality. She was sacked in December that 12 months and launched an unfair dismissal declare.

She claimed Mr Shaida attacked her when she walked from her desk to the fax machine.

She mentioned: ‘He mentioned one thing to me so I finished, he walked in direction of me and was standing in entrance of me when he grabbed my hand after which stabbed it randomly with a pen twice.’

Kiani mentioned she had nightmares and flashbacks, suffered persistent ache and had to make use of her proper hand.

Mr Shaida mentioned there have been some jokes within the workplace and he had ‘picked up her Biro and gently tapped her hand leaving an ink mark.’

The employment case was thrown out in 2017, however Kiani continued together with her £3,000 compensation declare saying her bosses failed to guard her from her violent boss.

Her case was thrown out in March 2020 because it ‘defied logic’.

Aviareps took her to the Excessive Court docket the place she lastly admitted contempt.