A MUM has been forced to fork out £85,000 after falsely claiming her travel agent boss stabbed her at work with a biro.

Parivash Kiani, 52, even faked pictures of her alleged bloody wounds and said she was left traumatised by the trumped up incident.

She concocted an "extraordinary" tale that her line manager Fawad Shaida pierced her hand twice as he got up from his desk at the travel marketing company Aviareps PLC in February 2015.

The mum-of-two said the incident forced her to rely solely on her left hand and she suffered from chronic pain, nightmares and flashbacks.

But after scrutinising the two snaps of her wounds – supposedly taken soon after the assault – a document was spotted in the background of the pic dated long after the alleged attack.

Kiani then admitted the pictures were fakes after her scandalous ruse was rumbled.

She lost an employment tribunal fight over the allegations and was later found to have been "fundamentally dishonest" in a subsequent county court claim.

The 52-year-old has now been slapped with an £85,000 court bill and a suspended sentence for contempt of court.

Her former employers took her to the High Court in London last week, accusing her of using the phoney pics to bolster her bogus claim.

Mr Justice Martin Spencer said Kiani "must have deliberately in 2017 stabbed herself twice in the hand", waited for her wounds to scab over, and then took the pictures to pretend they were from two years earlier.

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He suggested the shameful case stemmed from an incident in January 2015 when the former travel agent was disciplined.

She was reprimanded for breaching client confidentiality before her post was later "terminated" in December later that year.

Kiani took her employers to an Employment Tribunal alleging unfair dismissal, where she made the outlandish claim against her innocent boss.

She claimed: "He said something to me so I stopped, he walked towards me and was standing in front of me when he grabbed my hand and then stabbed it randomly with a pen twice."

But Mr Shaida insisted he was simply "joking around" with his colleague and he had only "picked up her biro and gently tapped her hand leaving an ink mark".

Mr Shaida had even expressed sorrow for the loss of his former friendship with Mrs Kiani, having attended family birthdays at her home.

'FUNDAMENTALLY DISHONEST'

Although her case against Aviareps PLC was thrown out, she pressed on with a £3,000 compensation claim, saying the company failed to protect her.

Her lies were then rejected at Central London County Court in March 2020, with Judge Heather Baucher saying her account "defied logic".

On top of that, Judge Baucher ruled that Mrs Kiani "deliberately manufactured the photo evidence" to exaggerate the "minor office incident."

Throwing out her "fundamentally dishonest" case, she ordered Kiani, of North Finchley, London, to pay £35,000 in court fees.

Aviareps’ lawyers then hauled Kiani to the High Court, alleging a deliberate contempt of court in cooking up the photo evidence.

Kiani ultimately admitted attempting to "interfere with the course of justice" and was given a six-month suspended sentence.

The judge decided to suspend her sentence after noting that her actions were not motivated by greed, as she had only sued for £3,000.

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He also highlighted her "significant psychological condition" and suggested she had wanted to "achieve some vindication" after losing her job.

On top of the £35,000, Mrs Kiani was ordered to pick up her former employer’s legal fees for the committal hearing, which are estimated to tally up to £50,000.

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