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Wanting to get back at her ex-boyfriend who had married someone else, a woman in Singapore got her employee to beat her up and lied to the police that her ex-boyfriend was the culprit.
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.
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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.
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Gill and Chng were told repeatedly to leave, but would not.
Eventually, the man locked the main door to the restaurant while Gill and Chng were inside, and the two women began calling the police.
When police arrived, the man unlocked the main door and the two women lied that he had assaulted them before locking them in the restaurant.
Later that night, Gill got Chng and another employee, an assistant general manager at her company, to meet her at a mall car park.
She told them she wanted to lodge a police report against her ex-boyfriend for assault. She told her employee to hit her so she could pretend the injuries had been caused by her ex-boyfriend.

He complied, punching and kicking Gill so she had bruises on her arm and leg.
Gill then told Chng to memorise a false account that her ex-boyfriend had assaulted them both at iKebab.
After this, Gill and Chng visited a hospital and told examining doctors that they had been assaulted. Gill had bruises on her arm and toe and tenderness in her hand, ankle and knee.
She gave a statement to the police later that month about the alleged assault by her ex-boyfriend, claiming he had punched her, stepped on her and pushed her to the floor, among other acts.
Gill also lodged a complaint to a magistrate over the same alleged assault and gave a further statement to the police.
Chng initially went along with Gill’s plan, lying to the police about the fabricated assault.
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However, she recanted the false statements in July 2017, saying she had resolved to tell the truth after her last day of work for Gill.
Chng was sentenced to six weeks’ jail in September last year.
The prosecutor sought three to five weeks’ jail for Gill for the false statement charge and three to five months’ jail for giving false evidence.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Pei Wei said Gill had told persistent lies to the authorities to get her ex-boyfriend in trouble with the law.
The offences were highly premeditated, wasted police resources and persistent – with Gill giving the false account on at least four occasions.
Gill had also not cooperated with the police during investigations, and the offences came to light only after Chng came clean.
This story was first published by CNA


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Sophia Gill wanted to get back at her ex-boyfriend, who married someone else, and fabricated the story about being assaulted
The 53-year-old pleaded guilty to one charge each of giving a false statement to the police and giving false evidence to a magistrate


Sophia Gill wanted to get back at her ex-boyfriend, who married someone else, and fabricated the story about being assaulted.


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