Singapore jails woman who faked assault to get back at ex-boyfriend

However, another employee roped into the lie broke under police questioning and revealed the truth.

Sophia Gill, a 53-year-old Singaporean, was jailed for three months on Monday. She pleaded guilty to one charge each of giving a false statement to the police and giving false evidence to a magistrate, with another two charges taken into consideration.

The court heard that Gill ran an employment agency called Raffles Human Resource (RHR) in Bali Lane.

She was in a relationship with the victim, a 42-year-old man, from 2015.

In 2016, they ran a restaurant called iKebab at 23 Bali Lane at RHR’s premises, and they were both directors of the company.

The couple broke up, and the man married another woman in January 2017. He began running iKebab alone under a different company.

From end-March 2017 to May 2017, the former lovers made multiple police reports against each other for harassment and assault.

The man obtained an expedited protection order against Gill on April 11, 2017. Under the order, she was not to contact or attempt to contact him or his wife, directly or indirectly.

When the order expired, he obtained another that prohibited Gill from attempting to contact him or his wife and from making any threatening, abusive or insulting action near iKebab.

On May 23, 2017, the day the new order was issued, Gill entered iKebab’s premises with her employee, administrative officer Nicole Chng Jin Wen, then 21.

Gill began arguing with her ex. She picked up an iPad at the shop and said it was hers.

Her ex then took a laptop Gill and Chng had brought with them and said he would return it when Gill returned the iPad.

Gill and Chng were told repeatedly to leave, but would not.

Eventually, the man locked the main door to the restaurant while Gill