A South Korean court has sentenced a woman who blackmailed football star Son Heung-min to four years in prison, BBC reported. 

The woman in her 20s and her accomplice, a man in his 40s, were found guilty of blackmailing the former Tottenham captain by saying she was pregnant with his child.

The woman had approached Son sometime last year claiming she was carrying his child, when in fact she did not know whether that was the case, a Seoul district court heard, according to local media, according to BBC.