A MUM was forced to pay £85,000 after falsely claiming her travel agent boss stabbed her with a biro at work.

Parivash Kiani, 52, even faked pictures of her alleged bloody wounds and claimed the fabricated incident had traumatised her.

She made up a “extraordinary” storey about her line manager Fawad Shaida piercing her hand twice as he stood up from his desk at the travel marketing firm Aviareps PLC in February 2015.

The mother of two claimed that the incident forced her to rely solely on her left hand, and that she suffered from chronic pain, nightmares, and flashbacks as a result.

However, after closely inspecting the two photos of her wounds, which were allegedly taken soon after the assault, a document dated long after the alleged assault was discovered in the background of one of the photos.

Kiani later admitted the photos were forgeries after her scandalous ruse was exposed.

She was found to be “fundamentally dishonest” in a subsequent county court claim after losing an employment tribunal battle over the allegations.

The 52-year-old is now facing an £85,000 court bill as well as a suspended sentence for contempt of court.

Her former employers sued her in the High Court in London last week, accusing her of fabricating photos to support her bogus claim.

Mr Justice Martin Spencer stated that Kiani “must have deliberately stabbed herself twice in the hand in 2017,” waited for her wounds to scab over, and then took the photos to make them appear to be from two years earlier.

He claimed the heinous case stemmed from a January 2015 incident in which the former travel agent was disciplined.

She was reprimanded for violating client confidentiality before being “terminated” in December of that year.

Kiani filed an unfair dismissal claim against her employers at an Employment Tribunal, where she made the outrageous claim against her innocent boss.

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

Mr Shaida, on the other hand, insisted he was just “joking around” with his colleague and had only “picked up her biro and gently tapped her hand leaving an ink mark.”

Mr Shaida had even expressed regret over the loss of his former friendship with Mrs Kiani, having attended family birthdays at her residence.