Waitress jailed for false sexual assault allegation against her gay boss

A waitress, who invented a sexual assault allegation against her gay boss after he sacked her, was jailed for nine months yesterday.

Gema Revelles, 21, made up the story because she was too ashamed to tell her family she was jobless.

But her sister was so outraged at her apparent ordeal she insisted she tells police.

However, having "started the ball rolling she didn't stop" until it was too late, London's Southwark Crown Court was told.

Charles John-Jules, prosecuting, said unfortunately for the Spanish national she got her dates mixed up, reckoned without CCTV and was apparently unaware of her alleged attacker's sexual orientation.

The barrister said despite some of the inconsistencies being drawn to her attention she persisted with her story during a second interview.

According to Revelles a Malaga "hotel school" student on a six-month work placement scheme to the City's Coq D'Argent restaurant her ordeal began when operation manager Gerhard Jacobs tricked her into entering a downstairs office by claiming someone wanted to see her.

Mr John-Jules said she alleged once there he asked her "to do him a favour".

"She said she didn't know what that meant. He then moved towards her and placed his hands on her bottom. She says after she slapped him round the face, he put his hands on her shoulders and forced her down on her knees directly in front of him."

She claimed he then pulled down his trousers.

"Revelles told the officer she punched him in the stomach and ran out of the office and told two female employees what had happened.

"But that account was not true," said the barrister.

Eventually, as problems with her story continued to mount, she admitted she had lied.

Yet by that time a distraught Mr Jacobs had been spoken to by police.

Protesting his innocence, he told officers: "Everyone knows that I'm gay at work and elsewhere."