Vicky Pryce Guilty.

[cee-dee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21496566

It took them long enough, two days.

Although she was clearly guilty of perverting the course of justice, do you think she should have been "let off" due to the Law on Marital Coercion?

[aernethril]

Loss of income for a very long time too, plus a criminal record for life, each.

She was on a fully paid sabbatical for around a year until last week.

What I find even worse is how so many of their uber-privileged cronies have all come out and said how terrible it is that they've been give a custodial sentence and don't deserve it.

Yet it's conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - and by people who knew what they were doing and why.

The sad thing is they won't be inside for 8 months.

Let's hope they both come out and rededicate their lives to doing something far better with their lives to help those who can never enjoy the lifestyle they've abused, and so give their children parents to start looking up to.

[Anonymous]

good riddance to trash, they deserve each other. it begs the question just how many more senior officials are of the same ilk.

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They can expect to be out in 2 mths with a tag on some home release scheme apparently, according to the BBC six o'clock news. 

[joe_bloggs*]

I,ll bet the court costs come to a tidy sum,Apparently Huhne made a pile as a merchant banker,His ex-wife thinks he still is one :^O

[lhasa.two]

I hope the CPS claim back their costs from Chris Huhne.

I assume Price will be claiming her not insignificant Civil Service pension...

[5129frederick]

Ironically they've got it made.  All this so-called adverse publicity is rubbish.  There's no such thing as bad publicity!  They'll be mobbed as soon as they walk out of prison with television interviews all lined up.  They'll both be in Max Hasting's books for months.  Who, outside football had even heard of Paul Gascoigne until he was seen bawling his eyes out on a pitch?  Who'd ever heard of Salman Rushdie until he wrote Satanic verses - he's now a multi-millionaire!  Huhne is making a big thing of trying to get back on speaking terms with his son.  Utter bunkom!  He's probably already rewritten his will, disinheriting his son. 

His ladyfriend - will she wait patiently for her fallen hero to come out of prison and help pick the pieces - don't bank on it!  :^O

[ronnybabes]

It was a paltry speeding offence for goodness sake..

Even on BBC1 Question Time, most of the panel hinted they may have done the same, as Huhne, in his circumstances.

One even said that he asked his Partner, and she sensibly declined.

We all have gone over the speeding limit (well some of us) most of us without thinking about it.

It only came to Court, (and should never have done so, given the time limit, and the fact that it was an offence that many had committed every day, on that stretch of the road at that time, 10 years ago) because of Huhne's status, his infidelity, and his wife's desire for revenge.

A simple speeding offence that happens everyday, but this one cost us, the taxpayer Millions.

Thanks a bunch!!

[al**bear]

Wonder how that great bastion of the British press , The Sunday Times are feeling.

They set up the vindictive wifes attempted sting to catch Huhne on a recorded phone call, for political reasons.

The editor involved was a personal friend , with friends like that, who needs enemies

[lhasa.two]

It was a paltry speeding offence for goodness sake..

Even on BBC1 Question Time, most of the panel hinted they may have done the same, as Huhne, in his circumstances.

One even said that he asked his Partner, and she sensibly declined.

We all have gone over the speeding limit (well some of us) most of us without thinking about it.

It only came to Court, (and should never have done so, given the time limit, and the fact that it was an offence that many had committed every day, on that stretch of the road at that time, 10 years ago) because of Huhne's status, his infidelity, and his wife's desire for revenge.

A simple speeding offence that happens everyday, but this one cost us, the taxpayer Millions.

Thanks a bunch!!

I suppose it depends on how you view speeding offences. I've been driving for over 40 years and I've never had a speeding fine and that's not because I'm a goody two shoes but because I try not to break the law by speeding. 

This would have been Huhne's 3rd or 4th speeding offence. Unless he had special training - which I doubt - he's potentially a dangerous driver and to be avoided, just like anyone else who reaches 12 points on their license for speeding. Drivers like Huhne think they'll always get away with it and there's an arrogance that they think they are better drivers than other people so the law doesn't apply to them and for someone in public life, it's a disgrace.

I'm very pleased he's off the road and I'm very pleased he's out of politics because his lying right up to the eleventh hour indicates a complete disregard for others and the laws of this country.

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It isn't about a speeding offence.  It is about deliberately setting out to avoid the consequences of having broken the law.

I'm sure Huhne's girlfriend will manage to hold out for 2 mths. 😉

[cee-dee]

Well I think the comments made by the judge about her were those of a male chauvanist.

There was no doubt she was complicit in attempting to pervert the course of justice but reading things through, I think she was bullied in to it. The jury thought otherwise BUT.... that was that particular jury? I wonder what a different jury would have thought?

Be interesting to have 24 people in the public gallery during a trial and "send them out" 12 to a room like a jury and see what they make of a case?

Were I the judge (heck, you wouldn't like that?), after the jury had found her guilty I'd have suspended her sentence!

[cee-dee]

I forgot to say that she had every right to feel peeved even vindictive because not only had her husband betrayed her and left her for another woman, the woman concerned was already "married" to another woman!

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 The jury thought otherwise BUT.... that was that particular jury? I wonder what a different jury would have thought?

But that's the same in every trial, surely?  You get a jury and they make a decision based on the evidence presented. 

[cee-dee]

I know, it was just a thought that struck me after the first jury couldn't agree.

At one time that would have meant acquittal.

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Sean Jenkins, the teacher accused of murdering his foster daughter Billie-Jo, went through 3 trials, didn't he?  And in the end, if I remember correctly, the jury could not decide and the judge ruled a further trial could not be held.

[cee-dee]

Oh THAT case was a prime example of a copper making his mind up early on and not letting the evidence lead him. Instead he was led by his own conclusion and didn't investigate the scene properly.

I dunno whether that bloke was an innocent convicted by prejudice or a guilty who "got away with it".

[al**bear]

'She was 'Bullied' into it'

don't make Me laugh , she is and always has been a very tough cookie

Everyone who knew her said so, and she was frequently on the media in her Job as an economist, she was no shrinking violet 

[cee-dee]

That was her job, with a "relationship", married or otherwise all that goes out of the window. MCP thinking there.

[mr-expresso]

A woman scorned is a woman jailed......

[mitzigirl_123]

Irrespective of their marital breakdown (and there are always two sides to every story) they were  both charged with perverting the course of justice which carries a minimum sentence of 6 months.  

You commit the crime, you pay the penalty.  End of.