A LYING teenager saw his own dad locked up for two months after falsely accusing him of an attack.

Now Mehrdad Shahijan has himself escaped a jail sentence after a judge showed compassion in a courtroom.

When police attended at the Huddersfield home of Shahijan and his parents the 19-year-old was found on a bed gasping for air and claiming he couldn’t breathe.

But it was all a lie.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that Shahijan, who was taken to hospital, told police that his father had pulled a knife on his mother and had tried to strangle him with a piece of electric cable.

Prosecutor Michele Stuart-Lofthouse said the teenager directed officers to his father’s bedroom where they found a piece of cable and the teenager was also seen to have eight friction burns on each side of his neck.

The teenager’s father Ali Mohammed Kadkhodaei-Shahijan was taken into custody and throughout a series of interviews he denied any offences.

“As a result of the allegations he (the father) was charged with an affray, a Section 18 wounding, perverting the course of justice and attempt murder,” said Miss Stuart-Lofthouse.

Mr Kadkhodaei-Shahijan was kept in custody from his arrest on July 14 last year until September 30.

Following his father’s remand in custody the teenager told officers that he had made everything up because he was angry.

He later went on to admit that there had been a scuffle in the father’s bedroom and he became aware that his father had called the police.

Miss Stuart-Lofthouse said the teenager had tried to wrap the electric cable round his own neck and pull it tight.