Natasha Uttamsingh, 22, was jailed for 15 months (Picture: INS)

A student who lied that she’d been beaten and strangled by her ex has been jailed for 15 months.

Natasha Uttamsingh, 22, claimed that former boyfriend Aakash Andrews had attacked her and even convinced a judge to grant a non-molestation order against him.

She had wanted to keep him in her life when their relationship broke down and had threatened to ruin his career.

Man casually sunbathing on Brick Lane gets arrestedHe broke up with her so she went to police to make the allegations.


However, they discovered a message on her phone that she’d sent to herself from Mr Andrews’ phone saying that he’d raped her.



She also altered medical notes to get police to investigate an attack and changed a contact in her phone to make it appear as though he’d repeatedly tried calling her.

Uttamsingh was jailed for carrying out acts intended to pervert the course of justice and was given a restraining order on her ex-partner for five years.

British man says woman was ‘taking selfies with a gun’ when she was shotProsecutor Tony Prosser said: ‘The relationship was experiencing problems and Aakash had said that he wanted to end it.

‘When he suggested finishing it she told him she was pregnant. He said he wanted to go away for a few days. She stood in front of him and said she would report him for domestic assault if he were to try to leave her.

‘A call was made to the police, it was reported to come from a Nicola Smith which was the defendant using a false name,’ said the prosecutor.

‘She then made an allegation he had strangled her to the point of unconsciousness and that she was assaulted on a daily basis.

‘The next day she said she had been the subject to rape.’

Sentencing at Guildford Crown Court, Judge Christopher Critchlow, said: ‘You have tried to influence a court by dishonestly altering medical records and tried to bring problems into Aakash Andrews’ life and you have succeeded in doing that.’

Uttamsingh’s mother, who sat at the back of the courtroom throughout her daughter’s sentencing, cried as she was taken away from the dock to begin her sentence.