A maid faces three years in jail for adding urine and dirty wash water to her employer’s tea.

The 22-year-old who was working in Hong Kong, China, was arrested after her employer noticed the tea had strange odour.

She confronted the maid, who admitted to tampering with her drink, although the reasons are unclear.

Caught out: A maid faces three years in jail for adding urine and dirty wash water to her employer’s tea

The maid now faces a jail term for ‘administering noxious substances’ – urine and dirty laundry water are potentially hazardous to human health, reported Shanghaiist.

Her former employer lived in Metro Town Phase One, a residential high-rise development located in the Tseung Kwan O district of the New Territories.

The identity of the maid and her employer are not known.

Last year a maid in the UAE who added urine to her employer’s tea was jailed for two months.

The 26-year-old Indonesian housemaid was found guilty of endangering the life of a family by the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours.

The maid carried out the crime in order to make the family like her, records say.

Snared: The 22-year-old who was working in Hong Kong was arrested after her employer noticed the tea had strange odour

The wife was always complaining at me. Another housemaid told me to put urine on the floor and in the family’s food and tea as it would make them treat me well,’ the housemaid said in records.

‘I used to put a spoonful of urine in the tea before serving it to the family. I did this seven times in a month.’

According to the report, her actions were discovered after her Jordanian employer found spilled urine in his son’s bathroom.

In 2007, an Indonesian maid was jailed for six days in Hong Kong for serving her boss a cup of water containing urine, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

The 29-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of ‘administering poison or other destructive or noxious substance with intent to injure,’ but insisted she had used the urine to treat a skin condition  and its appearance in her employer’s cup was a mistake.

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