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Re: You little Liar Huhne
Panda Tue 5 Feb - 12:36
It,s not as if he would lose his Licence, it meant 3 points and it was shameful to ask his Wife to lie for him. What puzzles me though is that this happened 10 years ago , but the incident surfaced a couple of years ago. Was it his Wife who shopped him because of the Divorce.?
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
chrissie Tue 5 Feb - 12:45
Hi Panda, that's my understanding of it. She spoke up when she discovered his affair.
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
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Vicky Pryce 'revealed Huhne's speeding points lie to get revenge'
Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of Chris Huhne, told a newspaper she had taken
speeding points for him to get “revenge” and destroy his career after he left
her for another woman, a jury has been told.
Former Energy Secretary Chris
Huhne and his ex wife Vicky Pryce arrive at Southwark Crown Court Photo: PA
By Gordon Rayner, and Martin
Evans
11:44AM GMT 05 Feb 2013
Miss Pryce was “extremely angry” for the “horrible circumstances” in which
Huhne had ended their 26-year marriage and tipped off the Sunday Times about the
2003 offence, it is claimed.
But her decision to get her own back landed her in the dock of Southwark
Crown Court in London today, where she went on trial accused of perverting the
course of justice when she “consented” to take the speeding points so Huhne
could avoid a driving ban.
Miss Pryce, 60, filled in forms and sent them back to police to falsely claim
she was driving Huhne’s BMW when it was caught speeding by a radar camera on the
M11.
But the Greek-born economist, who was charged under her full name Vasiliki
Pryce, claims she was “coerced” into doing so by Huhne, to whom she was still
married at the time.
She is using the “special defence” of marital coercion, which is only
available to wives who claim they were “deprived of their freedom to choose” by
their husbands.
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Vicky Pryce arriving at Southwark Crown Court (Rex
Features)
But the jury was told that she was in truth a “strong minded and manipulative
woman” who was perfectly capable of exerting her will.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Andrew Edis QC told Southwark Crown
Court in London that Huhne’s deception would never have come to light had it not
been for his decision to leave his wife for his former aide, Carina Trimingham,
in 2010.
He said: “There is no doubt at all that Miss Pryce was distressed, but there
is also no doubt at all that she was extremely angry and that she wanted some
revenge.
“Her revenge was in the end to pass the story about the 2003 crime to the
newspapers so that it would be published in the hope that it would destroy her
husband’s career as a Cabinet minister.
“It was Miss Pryce’s plan that she would get her revenge by putting an end to
all that because she would publish what they had done together in 2003 so she
would get her revenge for the undoubtedly very bad way in which he had treated
her.”
The jury was told that yesterday Huhne pleaded guilty to perverting the
course of justice and quit politics.
Mr Edis said: “He is not a Cabinet minister any more. The plan worked.”
Miss Pryce admitted she was an active participant in Huhne’s attempt to avoid
having three penalty points put on his driving licence.
Mr Edis said: “She agrees that she knew it was going to happen. She
consented.
“The basic facts in this case are largely agreed...so what are we doing here?
“Miss Pryce says that she filled in the form and took the points at a time
when she was married to Mr Huhne, and the law says that if a wife commits an
offence in the presence of her husband and because he has coerced her into it
then she has a defence.”
But he said the jury would have to decide if she is “the sort of woman who is
unable to stand up to her husband or is she the sort of person who is able to
choose what she does”.
Mr Edis told the jury how in 2010 Miss Pryce had been in email contact with
The Sunday Times' political editor Isobel Oakeshott, in the hope of getting the
story into the papers and destroying her ex-husband's career.
In one email Miss Oakeshott proposed running the story in two large
instalments.
She told Miss Pryce that if she was willing to "speak openly about the
offence" it would "inflict maximum and possibly fatal damage against Chris".
Miss Pryce replied: "I have no doubt that I definitely want to nail him, more
than ever actually and would love to do it soon."
But Mr Edis explained that she was concerned that by speaking out she risked
being prosecuted herself.
In another email Miss Oakeshott told Miss Pryce that she might be able to
avoid prosecution by portraying herself as the victim.
She wrote: "I think you could make yourself out very much to be the
honourable one saying that it had been on your conscience ever since but you
were bullied into it."
Mr Edis asked the jury to consider whether Miss Pryce, who was a senior civil
servant and successful economist, was the sort of woman who could be easily
bullied or whether she was a "manipulative woman who is very capable of making
up her own mind".
The court also heard how Miss Pryce taped a telephone call with her
ex-husband in an attempt to get him to confess to the offence.
But Mr Huhne was suspicious and admitted nothing during the conversation.
Mr Edis said: "She is trying to get this confession out of him. You may come
to the conclusion that these phone conversations are two manipulative people
trying unsuccessfully to manipulate each other."
The charge against Miss Pryce states that between March 12 and May 21, 2003,
she "falsely informed the authorities" that she was the driver of a vehicle
travelling at excess speed, causing her licence to be endorsed with three
penalty points, “intending to pervert the course of justice”.
She was charged in February last year after a nine-month investigation by
Essex Police which was launched after allegations about the speeding ticket were
first reported in newspapers.
Mr Edis said the “temptation to pervert the course of justice might confront
every married couple” in such circumstances, and “it might seem it doesn’t
matter”.
Ultimately, however, it does matter, he added, because “the whole point of a
criminal justice system is that it needs to work for everyone’s good and it
won’t work if everybody fiddles it”.
Huhne will be sentenced after the conclusion of Miss Pryce’s trial and has
been warned he may be jailed. The maximum sentence for the offence is life
imprisonment.
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Vicky Pryce, the ex-wife of Chris Huhne, told a newspaper she had taken
speeding points for him to get “revenge” and destroy his career after he left
her for another woman, a jury has been told.
Former Energy Secretary Chris
Huhne and his ex wife Vicky Pryce arrive at Southwark Crown Court Photo: PA
By Gordon Rayner, and Martin
Evans
11:44AM GMT 05 Feb 2013
Miss Pryce was “extremely angry” for the “horrible circumstances” in which
Huhne had ended their 26-year marriage and tipped off the Sunday Times about the
2003 offence, it is claimed.
But her decision to get her own back landed her in the dock of Southwark
Crown Court in London today, where she went on trial accused of perverting the
course of justice when she “consented” to take the speeding points so Huhne
could avoid a driving ban.
Miss Pryce, 60, filled in forms and sent them back to police to falsely claim
she was driving Huhne’s BMW when it was caught speeding by a radar camera on the
M11.
But the Greek-born economist, who was charged under her full name Vasiliki
Pryce, claims she was “coerced” into doing so by Huhne, to whom she was still
married at the time.
She is using the “special defence” of marital coercion, which is only
available to wives who claim they were “deprived of their freedom to choose” by
their husbands.
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Vicky Pryce arriving at Southwark Crown Court (Rex Features)
But the jury was told that she was in truth a “strong minded and manipulative
woman” who was perfectly capable of exerting her will.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Andrew Edis QC told Southwark Crown
Court in London that Huhne’s deception would never have come to light had it not
been for his decision to leave his wife for his former aide, Carina Trimingham,
in 2010.
He said: “There is no doubt at all that Miss Pryce was distressed, but there
is also no doubt at all that she was extremely angry and that she wanted some
revenge.
“Her revenge was in the end to pass the story about the 2003 crime to the
newspapers so that it would be published in the hope that it would destroy her
husband’s career as a Cabinet minister.
“It was Miss Pryce’s plan that she would get her revenge by putting an end to
all that because she would publish what they had done together in 2003 so she
would get her revenge for the undoubtedly very bad way in which he had treated
her.”
The jury was told that yesterday Huhne pleaded guilty to perverting the
course of justice and quit politics.
Mr Edis said: “He is not a Cabinet minister any more. The plan worked.”
Miss Pryce admitted she was an active participant in Huhne’s attempt to avoid
having three penalty points put on his driving licence.
Mr Edis said: “She agrees that she knew it was going to happen. She
consented.
“The basic facts in this case are largely agreed...so what are we doing here?
“Miss Pryce says that she filled in the form and took the points at a time
when she was married to Mr Huhne, and the law says that if a wife commits an
offence in the presence of her husband and because he has coerced her into it
then she has a defence.”
But he said the jury would have to decide if she is “the sort of woman who is
unable to stand up to her husband or is she the sort of person who is able to
choose what she does”.
Mr Edis told the jury how in 2010 Miss Pryce had been in email contact with
The Sunday Times' political editor Isobel Oakeshott, in the hope of getting the
story into the papers and destroying her ex-husband's career.
In one email Miss Oakeshott proposed running the story in two large
instalments.
She told Miss Pryce that if she was willing to "speak openly about the
offence" it would "inflict maximum and possibly fatal damage against Chris".
Miss Pryce replied: "I have no doubt that I definitely want to nail him, more
than ever actually and would love to do it soon."
But Mr Edis explained that she was concerned that by speaking out she risked
being prosecuted herself.
In another email Miss Oakeshott told Miss Pryce that she might be able to
avoid prosecution by portraying herself as the victim.
She wrote: "I think you could make yourself out very much to be the
honourable one saying that it had been on your conscience ever since but you
were bullied into it."
Mr Edis asked the jury to consider whether Miss Pryce, who was a senior civil
servant and successful economist, was the sort of woman who could be easily
bullied or whether she was a "manipulative woman who is very capable of making
up her own mind".
The court also heard how Miss Pryce taped a telephone call with her
ex-husband in an attempt to get him to confess to the offence.
But Mr Huhne was suspicious and admitted nothing during the conversation.
Mr Edis said: "She is trying to get this confession out of him. You may come
to the conclusion that these phone conversations are two manipulative people
trying unsuccessfully to manipulate each other."
The charge against Miss Pryce states that between March 12 and May 21, 2003,
she "falsely informed the authorities" that she was the driver of a vehicle
travelling at excess speed, causing her licence to be endorsed with three
penalty points, “intending to pervert the course of justice”.
She was charged in February last year after a nine-month investigation by
Essex Police which was launched after allegations about the speeding ticket were
first reported in newspapers.
Mr Edis said the “temptation to pervert the course of justice might confront
every married couple” in such circumstances, and “it might seem it doesn’t
matter”.
Ultimately, however, it does matter, he added, because “the whole point of a
criminal justice system is that it needs to work for everyone’s good and it
won’t work if everybody fiddles it”.
Huhne will be sentenced after the conclusion of Miss Pryce’s trial and has
been warned he may be jailed. The maximum sentence for the offence is life
imprisonment.
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
Panda Tue 5 Feb - 12:50
Quite an interesting article chrissie and Miss Oakeshott hasn't come out of this very well .!!chrissie wrote:Hi Panda, that's my understanding of it. She spoke up when she discovered his affair.
"In another email Miss Oakeshott told Miss Pryce that she might be able to
avoid prosecution by portraying herself as the victim.
She wrote: "I think you could make yourself out very much to be the
honourable one saying that it had been on your conscience ever since but you
were bullied into it"
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
chrissie Tue 5 Feb - 12:56
I have to say that they are both as bad as each other imo. There was no need to break the law in the first place.
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
Panda Tue 5 Feb - 13:30
I agree chrissie, for a measly 3 points he has lost everything, his Career, the respect of his Son, the gossip of the people, and a possible jail sentence......I don't feel sorry for him.chrissie wrote:I have to say that they are both as bad as each other imo. There was no need to break the law in the first place.
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
Panda Thu 7 Feb - 21:21
I watched the proceedings on the news earlier and Huhne's ex really is vindictive , hell hath no fury like a Woman scorned as they say. She alleged that he forced her to have an abortion in the early days of their Marriage and even had to have a go at Huhnes' new Partner saying she was bi-sexual.!!!
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Vicky price....Huhne's ex, to face a retrial
Panda Wed 20 Feb - 16:31
Jury discharged in Vicky Pryce trial after failing to reach verdict
Vicky Pryce is to face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict and
showed “fundamental deficits of understanding” of her case.
Vicky Pryce admits she has gone
through a 'horrible' divorce from the disgraced MP Chris Huhne Photo: Clara
Molden
By Gordon Rayner, Chief
Reporter
2:41PM GMT 20 Feb 2013
The eight women and four men on the jury at Southwark Crown Court in London
were discharged after telling the judge it was “highly unlikely” they would ever
reach agreement on whether or not Miss Pryce was guilty of perverting the course
of justice.
She will now face a new trial before a different jury starting on Monday.
The jury reached deadlock after sending the judge three separate notes
containing 10 questions which suggested they were “struggling” with the most
“basic concept” of trial by jury.
They included a question about whether they could reach a verdict based on
something which was not presented in court, and whether the defendant’s
“religious conviction” to follow her wedding vows of obeying her then husband,
Chris Huhne, would be reason enough to acquit her of committing a crime with
him.
Mr Justice Sweeney said he had “never come across” anything like the jury’s
response in nearly 30 years of working in criminal courts.
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Chris Huhne, who had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice on
the day he was due to stand trial alongside his ex-wife, must now wait until the
end of her new trial before finding out his sentence.
Miss Pryce, 60, was charged with the same offence as her husband after she
admitted taking speeding points for him to help him avoid a driving ban, but she
relied on the ancient defence of marital coercion, saying she had been pressured
into it by Huhne.
The judge had given the jury lengthy verbal and written directions about the
meaning of marital coercion before they retired to consider their verdict last
Thursday, but on Tuesday afternoon the notes were passed to the judge with the
10 questions.
One question asked the judge to define “reasonable doubt”, another asked if
they could “speculate” on information not presented in evidence.
The jury also asked: “Can a juror come to a verdict based on a reason that
was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it?”
Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting, suggested to the judge that he should discharge
the jury there and then, saying: “This is a jury which has not, it appears,
understood its function.”
He added: “It is surprising they are still struggling with this very basic
concept of jury trial...there is a substantial concern about whether the jury
has sufficiently grasped its task to be permitted safely to continue it”.
He suggested that if the “eyes of the world” were not on the case the judge
would already have discharged the jury.
The judge said: “Quite apart from my concern about the absolute fundamental
deficits of understanding which the questions demonstrate I wonder [given that
the answer] is all there and has been there the whole time the extent to which
anything said by me is going to be capable of getting them back on track again.
“I am like Mr Edis in the position that after 30 years of criminal trials I
have never come across this at this late stage. Never.”
But Julian Knowles QC, defending, argued that the jury should be allowed to
carry on deliberating, following further guidance from the judge, as they had
not broken any rules and were clearly giving the case a lot of thought.
Mr Justice Sweeney said that if the jury convicted Miss Pryce, she would
“undoubtedly” appeal the verdict because of the questions they asked, but in the
absence of “misconduct or irregularity” on the jury’s part, they should be
allowed to carry on deliberating once he had answered their questions.
He repeatedly referred them back to his earlier directions and said that the
question of religious conviction was “with respect” anything to do with the
case.
Asked to define reasonable doubt, he said it was “a doubt that is
reasonable”, adding: “These are ordinary English words that the law does not
allow me to help you with.”
He also told them that he would accept a majority verdict on which at least
10 of them were agreed.
But less than two hours later, after more than 15 hours of deliberations in
total, the jury sent the judge another note saying they had reached stalemate.
Mr Justice Sweeney told the jury: "I have received a note which indicated
that it is, and I quote, 'highly unlikely', underlined, that you are going to
reach even a majority verdict and it is helpful that you have set out the state
of play, and I'm grateful for that.
"Against the background of the amount of time you have been out already, it
is my decision that I must discharge you from further deliberations."
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I wonder where thw Jurors came from , I would have thought this case was not so difficult to understand.!!!
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Vicky Pryce is to face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict and
showed “fundamental deficits of understanding” of her case.
Vicky Pryce admits she has gone
through a 'horrible' divorce from the disgraced MP Chris Huhne Photo: Clara
Molden
By Gordon Rayner, Chief
Reporter
2:41PM GMT 20 Feb 2013
The eight women and four men on the jury at Southwark Crown Court in London
were discharged after telling the judge it was “highly unlikely” they would ever
reach agreement on whether or not Miss Pryce was guilty of perverting the course
of justice.
She will now face a new trial before a different jury starting on Monday.
The jury reached deadlock after sending the judge three separate notes
containing 10 questions which suggested they were “struggling” with the most
“basic concept” of trial by jury.
They included a question about whether they could reach a verdict based on
something which was not presented in court, and whether the defendant’s
“religious conviction” to follow her wedding vows of obeying her then husband,
Chris Huhne, would be reason enough to acquit her of committing a crime with
him.
Mr Justice Sweeney said he had “never come across” anything like the jury’s
response in nearly 30 years of working in criminal courts.
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Chris Huhne, who had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice on
the day he was due to stand trial alongside his ex-wife, must now wait until the
end of her new trial before finding out his sentence.
Miss Pryce, 60, was charged with the same offence as her husband after she
admitted taking speeding points for him to help him avoid a driving ban, but she
relied on the ancient defence of marital coercion, saying she had been pressured
into it by Huhne.
The judge had given the jury lengthy verbal and written directions about the
meaning of marital coercion before they retired to consider their verdict last
Thursday, but on Tuesday afternoon the notes were passed to the judge with the
10 questions.
One question asked the judge to define “reasonable doubt”, another asked if
they could “speculate” on information not presented in evidence.
The jury also asked: “Can a juror come to a verdict based on a reason that
was not presented in court and has no facts or evidence to support it?”
Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting, suggested to the judge that he should discharge
the jury there and then, saying: “This is a jury which has not, it appears,
understood its function.”
He added: “It is surprising they are still struggling with this very basic
concept of jury trial...there is a substantial concern about whether the jury
has sufficiently grasped its task to be permitted safely to continue it”.
He suggested that if the “eyes of the world” were not on the case the judge
would already have discharged the jury.
The judge said: “Quite apart from my concern about the absolute fundamental
deficits of understanding which the questions demonstrate I wonder [given that
the answer] is all there and has been there the whole time the extent to which
anything said by me is going to be capable of getting them back on track again.
“I am like Mr Edis in the position that after 30 years of criminal trials I
have never come across this at this late stage. Never.”
But Julian Knowles QC, defending, argued that the jury should be allowed to
carry on deliberating, following further guidance from the judge, as they had
not broken any rules and were clearly giving the case a lot of thought.
Mr Justice Sweeney said that if the jury convicted Miss Pryce, she would
“undoubtedly” appeal the verdict because of the questions they asked, but in the
absence of “misconduct or irregularity” on the jury’s part, they should be
allowed to carry on deliberating once he had answered their questions.
He repeatedly referred them back to his earlier directions and said that the
question of religious conviction was “with respect” anything to do with the
case.
Asked to define reasonable doubt, he said it was “a doubt that is
reasonable”, adding: “These are ordinary English words that the law does not
allow me to help you with.”
He also told them that he would accept a majority verdict on which at least
10 of them were agreed.
But less than two hours later, after more than 15 hours of deliberations in
total, the jury sent the judge another note saying they had reached stalemate.
Mr Justice Sweeney told the jury: "I have received a note which indicated
that it is, and I quote, 'highly unlikely', underlined, that you are going to
reach even a majority verdict and it is helpful that you have set out the state
of play, and I'm grateful for that.
"Against the background of the amount of time you have been out already, it
is my decision that I must discharge you from further deliberations."
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I wonder where thw Jurors came from , I would have thought this case was not so difficult to understand.!!!
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Re: You little Liar Huhne
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Vicky Pryce trial: Guilty of perverting the
course of justice
Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by
taking her ex-husband Chris Huhne's speeding points.
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down
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Huhne
Judge Constance Briscoe could be prosecuted for
'lying to police'
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'nail' cheating Chris Huhne
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Chris Huhne in revenge for his affair is laid bare in a series of emails that
were shown to the jury.
Taped call between Pryce and Huhne
course of justice
Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perverting the course of justice by
taking her ex-husband Chris Huhne's speeding points.
Vicky Pryce: a quest for revenge brought her
down
Chris Huhne: the liar who hankered to lead
Carina Trimingham: former journalist who fell for
Huhne
Judge Constance Briscoe could be prosecuted for
'lying to police'
Defence of marital coercion could soon
disappear
Vicky Pryce trial: Emails that reveal plot to
'nail' cheating Chris Huhne
Interactive: Vicky Pryce’s determination to bring down her ex-husband
Chris Huhne in revenge for his affair is laid bare in a series of emails that
were shown to the jury.
Taped call between Pryce and Huhne
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Vicky Pryce's e-mails shown to Jury
Panda Fri 8 Mar - 9:32
Vicky Pryce’s determination to bring down her ex-husband Chris Huhne in
revenge for his affair is laid bare in a series of emails that were shown to the
jury.
By Sam Marsden
2:46PM GMT 07 Mar 2013
Over two months in the spring of 2011, she plotted in detail with a leading
journalist about how a newspaper could run a story exposing how Huhne forced her
to take speeding points for him so he would not lose his licence.
Pryce, 60, discussed at length ways of providing proof of what the former
cabinet minister did in 2003 while protecting herself from possible prosecution.
The 59 pages of emails, which were released by the Crown Prosecution Service
at the end of her trial, illustrate her emotional turmoil in the months after
Huhne, 58, left her for his former PR adviser, Carina Trimingham, 46.
They also explain how Isabel Oakeshott, political editor of The Sunday Times,
came to break the speeding points story on May 8 2011 that eventually ended
Huhne’s once-promising political career.
Pryce wrote to Miss Oakeshott on March 3: “I have no doubt as I definitely
want to nail him. More than ever actually and would love to do it soon.”
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However, a fortnight later, on March 17, she had got cold feet and was
refusing to be named as the source for the article.
“No way am I going to be involved in a story that came from me. The source is
CT [Carina Trimingham]. Unless that is clear then I can’t do it,” she wrote.
Many of the emails were sent by Pryce late at night. One, dating from March 6
2011, is littered with typing mistakes. She apologised for her falling asleep
while writing the message and accidentally pressing the send button before she
had corrected the errors.
Miss Oakeshott had to cajole and encourage Pryce to provide the on-the-record
corroboration that she needed to be able to run the story.
She wrote on March 8: “The bottom line is that this story WILL bring Chris
down, IF you are willing to go on the record about what happened with the minor
risk that this carries.”
The emails also show how upset Pryce still was about the breakdown of her
marriage and her overwhelming anger towards Huhne.
On March 4 she complained about the “bad economics” her ex-husband, then the
energy secretary, had used in a speech the previous day warning that oil prices
could soar.
The next day Pryce wrote to Miss Oakeshott suggesting that Huhne had made his
fortune through “dodgy investments” and by relying on his wife’s much greater
income.
She said: “The reason he was able to build property portfolio and fund his
political ambitions has very little to do with him ‘making millions in the City’
which he didn’t and a lot to do with me.”
Pryce also alleged that she had told senior Liberal Democrats about Huhne
making her accept his speeding penalties.
On April 9 she wrote to Miss Oakeshott: “I had told Vince [Cable] and Rachel
[his wife] about points before when the three of us were having supper about a
month ago.”
However, she added: “They were horrified at the time but VC has probably
forgotten it by now. He was v tired that night.”
Other emails were sent between Mail on Sunday journalists and Constance
Briscoe, a judge and neighbour of Huhne and Pryce in Clapham, south London, who
was advising Pryce about her contact with the media.
revenge for his affair is laid bare in a series of emails that were shown to the
jury.
By Sam Marsden
2:46PM GMT 07 Mar 2013
Over two months in the spring of 2011, she plotted in detail with a leading
journalist about how a newspaper could run a story exposing how Huhne forced her
to take speeding points for him so he would not lose his licence.
Pryce, 60, discussed at length ways of providing proof of what the former
cabinet minister did in 2003 while protecting herself from possible prosecution.
The 59 pages of emails, which were released by the Crown Prosecution Service
at the end of her trial, illustrate her emotional turmoil in the months after
Huhne, 58, left her for his former PR adviser, Carina Trimingham, 46.
They also explain how Isabel Oakeshott, political editor of The Sunday Times,
came to break the speeding points story on May 8 2011 that eventually ended
Huhne’s once-promising political career.
Pryce wrote to Miss Oakeshott on March 3: “I have no doubt as I definitely
want to nail him. More than ever actually and would love to do it soon.”
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However, a fortnight later, on March 17, she had got cold feet and was
refusing to be named as the source for the article.
“No way am I going to be involved in a story that came from me. The source is
CT [Carina Trimingham]. Unless that is clear then I can’t do it,” she wrote.
Many of the emails were sent by Pryce late at night. One, dating from March 6
2011, is littered with typing mistakes. She apologised for her falling asleep
while writing the message and accidentally pressing the send button before she
had corrected the errors.
Miss Oakeshott had to cajole and encourage Pryce to provide the on-the-record
corroboration that she needed to be able to run the story.
She wrote on March 8: “The bottom line is that this story WILL bring Chris
down, IF you are willing to go on the record about what happened with the minor
risk that this carries.”
The emails also show how upset Pryce still was about the breakdown of her
marriage and her overwhelming anger towards Huhne.
On March 4 she complained about the “bad economics” her ex-husband, then the
energy secretary, had used in a speech the previous day warning that oil prices
could soar.
The next day Pryce wrote to Miss Oakeshott suggesting that Huhne had made his
fortune through “dodgy investments” and by relying on his wife’s much greater
income.
She said: “The reason he was able to build property portfolio and fund his
political ambitions has very little to do with him ‘making millions in the City’
which he didn’t and a lot to do with me.”
Pryce also alleged that she had told senior Liberal Democrats about Huhne
making her accept his speeding penalties.
On April 9 she wrote to Miss Oakeshott: “I had told Vince [Cable] and Rachel
[his wife] about points before when the three of us were having supper about a
month ago.”
However, she added: “They were horrified at the time but VC has probably
forgotten it by now. He was v tired that night.”
Other emails were sent between Mail on Sunday journalists and Constance
Briscoe, a judge and neighbour of Huhne and Pryce in Clapham, south London, who
was advising Pryce about her contact with the media.
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The other Woman....Carina Trimingham
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Carina Trimingham: former journalist who fell for Huhne
A former journalist, Carina Trimingham started working for Chris Huhne in
2007 as he mounted his bid to become leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Carina Trimingham and former
Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne arrive at Southwark Crown Court in
London Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
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By Martin Evans, Crime
Correspondent
2:50PM GMT 07 Mar 2013
With experience in both Fleet Street and the world of public relations, the
45-year-old divorcee was employed to advise him on his press strategy.
However as they worked closely together on his ultimately unsuccessful
election bid, their friendship developed into something more serious.
They are thought to have embarked on a full blown affair around the end of
2007 despite the fact Miss Trimingham had only entered into a civil partnership
with her lesbian lover Julie Bennett, earlier that year.
Like Huhne’s wife Vicky Pryce, Miss Bennett, a 58-year-old psychotherapist
knew nothing about the affair until the story was made public in 2010.
The couple, who owned a £700,000 property close to the Barbican in central
London, split during Christmas 2009 with Miss Trimingham insisting there was no
one else involved when she moved out.
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But Miss Bennett’s family said she had been heartbroken after discovering
that Miss Trimingham had been having an affair with a man, behind her back.
Miss Bennett’s sister told a newspaper at the time: “I can't believe Carina
has been having an affair with a man. I had no inkling she'd ever had feelings
for a man.”
She added: “It was around December last year that Carina said she'd had
enough of the relationship. Julie asked if there was somebody else involved but
she always denied it.
“When I spoke to her last week, Julie still didn't understand why they had
split up. This will come as a total shock to her.”
Before entering into a civil partnership with Miss Bennett, Miss Trimingham
was married to medical practitioner Lawrence Woo.
The couple married in 1999, again at Islington Town Hall, but they divorced
two years later.
Huhne and Miss Trimingham went to great lengths to keep their affair secret
often travelling separately in order to throw reporters off the scent.
But in early 2009, the now defunct News of the World, got wind of the
relationship and tasked a private investigator with following the pair.
While a story about a senior Liberal Democrat having an extramarital affair
would have provided a decent story for the Sunday tabloid, the events of the
General Election in May 2010 sent it rocketing up the news agenda.
With a Coalition Government in power, Mr Huhne was elevated to the Cabinet,
taking responsibility for Climate Change, taking office on May 12.
Just five weeks later the News of the World splashed its exclusive story and
Huhne announced he was leaving his wife of 26-years for Miss Trimingham.
Given her broad experience in newspapers, including giving stories to a
gossip column on the Evening Standard, she may have been prepared for a negative
reaction in the tabloids.
But early last year after a series of unflattering articles she launched a
legal action against Associated Newspapers, describing a series of articles in
the Daily Mail as “highly unpleasant and hurtful”.
She said the press coverage had resulted in a "cataclysmic interference" in
her private life; and, in addition, claiming they were homophobic.
But in May last year, the court ruled against her ordering her to pay
£250,000 towards Associated Newspapers' legal costs.
Miss Trimingham is now studying for a law degree and is unrepentant about her
relationship, recently telling a newspaper: “Im just a regular person who
happened to fall in love with an MP.”
A former journalist, Carina Trimingham started working for Chris Huhne in
2007 as he mounted his bid to become leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Carina Trimingham and former
Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne arrive at Southwark Crown Court in
London Photo: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Images
By Martin Evans, Crime
Correspondent
2:50PM GMT 07 Mar 2013
With experience in both Fleet Street and the world of public relations, the
45-year-old divorcee was employed to advise him on his press strategy.
However as they worked closely together on his ultimately unsuccessful
election bid, their friendship developed into something more serious.
They are thought to have embarked on a full blown affair around the end of
2007 despite the fact Miss Trimingham had only entered into a civil partnership
with her lesbian lover Julie Bennett, earlier that year.
Like Huhne’s wife Vicky Pryce, Miss Bennett, a 58-year-old psychotherapist
knew nothing about the affair until the story was made public in 2010.
The couple, who owned a £700,000 property close to the Barbican in central
London, split during Christmas 2009 with Miss Trimingham insisting there was no
one else involved when she moved out.
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But Miss Bennett’s family said she had been heartbroken after discovering
that Miss Trimingham had been having an affair with a man, behind her back.
Miss Bennett’s sister told a newspaper at the time: “I can't believe Carina
has been having an affair with a man. I had no inkling she'd ever had feelings
for a man.”
She added: “It was around December last year that Carina said she'd had
enough of the relationship. Julie asked if there was somebody else involved but
she always denied it.
“When I spoke to her last week, Julie still didn't understand why they had
split up. This will come as a total shock to her.”
Before entering into a civil partnership with Miss Bennett, Miss Trimingham
was married to medical practitioner Lawrence Woo.
The couple married in 1999, again at Islington Town Hall, but they divorced
two years later.
Huhne and Miss Trimingham went to great lengths to keep their affair secret
often travelling separately in order to throw reporters off the scent.
But in early 2009, the now defunct News of the World, got wind of the
relationship and tasked a private investigator with following the pair.
While a story about a senior Liberal Democrat having an extramarital affair
would have provided a decent story for the Sunday tabloid, the events of the
General Election in May 2010 sent it rocketing up the news agenda.
With a Coalition Government in power, Mr Huhne was elevated to the Cabinet,
taking responsibility for Climate Change, taking office on May 12.
Just five weeks later the News of the World splashed its exclusive story and
Huhne announced he was leaving his wife of 26-years for Miss Trimingham.
Given her broad experience in newspapers, including giving stories to a
gossip column on the Evening Standard, she may have been prepared for a negative
reaction in the tabloids.
But early last year after a series of unflattering articles she launched a
legal action against Associated Newspapers, describing a series of articles in
the Daily Mail as “highly unpleasant and hurtful”.
She said the press coverage had resulted in a "cataclysmic interference" in
her private life; and, in addition, claiming they were homophobic.
But in May last year, the court ruled against her ordering her to pay
£250,000 towards Associated Newspapers' legal costs.
Miss Trimingham is now studying for a law degree and is unrepentant about her
relationship, recently telling a newspaper: “Im just a regular person who
happened to fall in love with an MP.”
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What a corrupt shower of tish we have running the country... I do think that considering the amount of cabinet changes since the coalition took office due to less than salubrious circumstance that it shouldn't just be we plebs who undergo checks on our suitability to enter gainful employment.
Corrupt B'stards one and all.
Corrupt B'stards one and all.
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Chris Huhne brands Vicky Pryce a liar over abortion claims
The stage is set for one final act of retribution. Chris Huhne, according to
close friends, will use his last day of freedom to brand his ex-wife a liar.
Former Energy Secretary Chris
Huhne and his ex wife Vicky Pryce arrive at Southwark Crown Court Photo: PA
Robert Mendick and Robert Watts
8:15AM GMT 10 Mar 2013
On Monday Huhne and Vicky Pryce, to whom he was married for 26 years, will
spend a final afternoon together in the dock at Southwark Crown Court for
sentencing. Both are likely to be sent to jail.
Huhne will take the opportunity to try to get in the last word. In
mitigation, if all goes according to plan, he will accuse Pryce of lying over
her claims - made during her trial - that he forced her to have one abortion and
tried to make her have another.
The close friend told The Sunday Telegraph: “Vicky Pryce told all sorts of
lies about him in the witness box. He will refute the abortion claim. That is
the plan. He wants to use the mitigation to address the accusations made against
him during the trial.”
Huhne, 58, has until now been unable to defend himself against the
accusations levelled against him by Pryce. By pleading guilty to perverting the
course of justice, he has never given any evidence in court.
But Pryce, 60, denied the charge - and as a result gave damning testimony in
court over two trials.
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She insisted she was bullied into taking her husband’s points for speeding in
2003 and to back up her claim, she alleged that Huhne had made her have one
abortion. She had refused his demands to terminate another pregnancy, leading to
the birth of their youngest son Peter.
Peter Huhne, 20, has also turned against his father, his hatred made public
in a series of text messages made public during the court case.
The family was torn apart by Huhne’s affair with his press aide Carina
Trimingham, who herself was in a civil partnership.
But the friend said Pryce had painted a false picture by suggesting it was a
happy marriage which had suddenly collapsed because of Huhne’s affair.
With his secret romance with Miss Trimingham about to be revealed by a
tabloid newspaper, Huhne told his wife he was leaving her as she watched a World
Cup football match in 2010.
Huhne and Miss Trimingham have let close acquaintances know that the marriage
was already troubled.
Huhne’s friend said: “The idea that Chris comes in and ends the marriage
while she is watching the World Cup is nonsense. It was already at the beginning
of the end.
“How can she claim they were in a happy marriage for 25 years and at the same
time claim he had made her have an abortion. They were not happily married. They
weren’t even sleeping in the same bedroom.
“From Vicky’s own description it is a pretty horrendous relationship. I am
surprised she didn’t get the champagne out and say 'thank god I have got rid of
you after all these years’. Instead she took out revenge and look where she’s
ended up.”
The friend said the series of texts between Huhne and his son had shown him
to be a 'loving father’ while the friend questioned how nurturing Pryce can be
if she was prepared to allow her children’s father to go to jail.
“It is humiliating for the children to see their father and mother go to
jail,” said the friend, “How can that be an advantage for your children to watch
their father go to jail?”
In mitigation - to try to get the sentence reduced - Huhne’s barrister will
point out that his client has now lost almost everything. The case has cost him
hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs, his political career and, even
worse, his relationship with his children.
Despite it all, claimed the friend, Huhne is relieved his ordeal is over. “He
is pleased that after Monday he will in all probability never have to see her
again,” said the friend.
Monday’s hearing may not be the end of the saga and there may still be
further political ramifications. Pressure is building on Vince Cable, the
Business Secretary, to give full details of his meetings with Pryce in the
run-up to the scandal breaking. Pryce wrote in emails to a journalist that she
had told Mr Cable and other senior Lib Dems that she had taken points for Huhne.
If true, it would mean Mr Cable had known about the crime but not told
authorities about it.
Mr Cable has denied the claims that he ever knew about the speeding points
until it was made public in newspapers in 2011.
However, one senior Coalition source said that the Business Secretary and
Miss Pryce were “clearly extremely close” and that she visited him “very often”
at his department, where she worked as a senior civil servant until announcing
her resignation in April 2010.
“She held regular meetings with Vince [Cable],” said a senior Coalition
source. “At times they were weekly. These weren’t necessarily one-to-one
meetings, but she was always coming into the department.”
A spokeswoman for Mr Cable said: “Vicky Pryce was Director General of
Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and joint head
of the Government Economic Service until 31 August 2010. As such, she and the
Secretary of State met regularly on issues relating to the Government’s economic
priorities. We do not hold central records of such internal meetings.”
The spokeswoman said further meetings with Mr Cable and officials were held
after she left office as well.
Yesterday, Huhne received words of support from Nick Clegg. Speaking at the
Liberal Democrat spring conference in Brighton, the Deputy Prime Minister
described his former colleague as an “effective” and “outstanding” politician.
Mr Clegg said: “Whatever is going on with Chris and Vicky... not only was he
an outstanding local constituency MP he was also an extremely powerful thinker
and indeed an very effective secretary of state.”
The stage is set for one final act of retribution. Chris Huhne, according to
close friends, will use his last day of freedom to brand his ex-wife a liar.
Former Energy Secretary Chris
Huhne and his ex wife Vicky Pryce arrive at Southwark Crown Court Photo: PA
Robert Mendick and Robert Watts
8:15AM GMT 10 Mar 2013
On Monday Huhne and Vicky Pryce, to whom he was married for 26 years, will
spend a final afternoon together in the dock at Southwark Crown Court for
sentencing. Both are likely to be sent to jail.
Huhne will take the opportunity to try to get in the last word. In
mitigation, if all goes according to plan, he will accuse Pryce of lying over
her claims - made during her trial - that he forced her to have one abortion and
tried to make her have another.
The close friend told The Sunday Telegraph: “Vicky Pryce told all sorts of
lies about him in the witness box. He will refute the abortion claim. That is
the plan. He wants to use the mitigation to address the accusations made against
him during the trial.”
Huhne, 58, has until now been unable to defend himself against the
accusations levelled against him by Pryce. By pleading guilty to perverting the
course of justice, he has never given any evidence in court.
But Pryce, 60, denied the charge - and as a result gave damning testimony in
court over two trials.
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She insisted she was bullied into taking her husband’s points for speeding in
2003 and to back up her claim, she alleged that Huhne had made her have one
abortion. She had refused his demands to terminate another pregnancy, leading to
the birth of their youngest son Peter.
Peter Huhne, 20, has also turned against his father, his hatred made public
in a series of text messages made public during the court case.
The family was torn apart by Huhne’s affair with his press aide Carina
Trimingham, who herself was in a civil partnership.
But the friend said Pryce had painted a false picture by suggesting it was a
happy marriage which had suddenly collapsed because of Huhne’s affair.
With his secret romance with Miss Trimingham about to be revealed by a
tabloid newspaper, Huhne told his wife he was leaving her as she watched a World
Cup football match in 2010.
Huhne and Miss Trimingham have let close acquaintances know that the marriage
was already troubled.
Huhne’s friend said: “The idea that Chris comes in and ends the marriage
while she is watching the World Cup is nonsense. It was already at the beginning
of the end.
“How can she claim they were in a happy marriage for 25 years and at the same
time claim he had made her have an abortion. They were not happily married. They
weren’t even sleeping in the same bedroom.
“From Vicky’s own description it is a pretty horrendous relationship. I am
surprised she didn’t get the champagne out and say 'thank god I have got rid of
you after all these years’. Instead she took out revenge and look where she’s
ended up.”
The friend said the series of texts between Huhne and his son had shown him
to be a 'loving father’ while the friend questioned how nurturing Pryce can be
if she was prepared to allow her children’s father to go to jail.
“It is humiliating for the children to see their father and mother go to
jail,” said the friend, “How can that be an advantage for your children to watch
their father go to jail?”
In mitigation - to try to get the sentence reduced - Huhne’s barrister will
point out that his client has now lost almost everything. The case has cost him
hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs, his political career and, even
worse, his relationship with his children.
Despite it all, claimed the friend, Huhne is relieved his ordeal is over. “He
is pleased that after Monday he will in all probability never have to see her
again,” said the friend.
Monday’s hearing may not be the end of the saga and there may still be
further political ramifications. Pressure is building on Vince Cable, the
Business Secretary, to give full details of his meetings with Pryce in the
run-up to the scandal breaking. Pryce wrote in emails to a journalist that she
had told Mr Cable and other senior Lib Dems that she had taken points for Huhne.
If true, it would mean Mr Cable had known about the crime but not told
authorities about it.
Mr Cable has denied the claims that he ever knew about the speeding points
until it was made public in newspapers in 2011.
However, one senior Coalition source said that the Business Secretary and
Miss Pryce were “clearly extremely close” and that she visited him “very often”
at his department, where she worked as a senior civil servant until announcing
her resignation in April 2010.
“She held regular meetings with Vince [Cable],” said a senior Coalition
source. “At times they were weekly. These weren’t necessarily one-to-one
meetings, but she was always coming into the department.”
A spokeswoman for Mr Cable said: “Vicky Pryce was Director General of
Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and joint head
of the Government Economic Service until 31 August 2010. As such, she and the
Secretary of State met regularly on issues relating to the Government’s economic
priorities. We do not hold central records of such internal meetings.”
The spokeswoman said further meetings with Mr Cable and officials were held
after she left office as well.
Yesterday, Huhne received words of support from Nick Clegg. Speaking at the
Liberal Democrat spring conference in Brighton, the Deputy Prime Minister
described his former colleague as an “effective” and “outstanding” politician.
Mr Clegg said: “Whatever is going on with Chris and Vicky... not only was he
an outstanding local constituency MP he was also an extremely powerful thinker
and indeed an very effective secretary of state.”
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Vicky Pryce, facing prison, shops for socks, radios and hair dye
Vicky Pryce was today seen shopping for a radio, socks and hair dye on what
could be her last afternoon of freedom ahead of her sentencing on Monday.
Vicky Pryce goes to a general
store to buy some rubbish bags and pocket tissues Photo: WENN
By Alice Philipson
5:24PM GMT 10 Mar 2013
Pryce was seen shopping in central London with a friend before she headed to
Sainsbury's, where she browsed the aisles for items that could provide comfort
if she is given a custodial sentence.
After looking at radio and socks in the supermarket she stopped at a cash
machine before buying some rubbish bags and pocket tissues at a general store.
Tomorrow Pryce, 60 and her former husband Chris Huhne, 58, will appear
together in the dock at Southwark Crown Court for sentencing. It is possible
both will be sent to jail over the speeding scam.
Granting her bail on Thursday, Mr Justice Sweeney warned the leading
economist to be under "no illusions" of the gravity of the offence and the
potential punishment.
If the judge does hand out a jail term to Pryce, it is likely she will be
held in HMP Holloway in Islington, North London for a short time before being
transferred to a lower category jail.
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An all-women prison, Holloway was once notorious for its grim conditions. Its
former high-profile inmates including serial killer Rose West and Maxine Carr,
girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and
Jessica Chapman.
Last Thursday Pryce was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by
taking Huhne's speeding points on his behalf. Huhne pleaded guilty to the same
offence last month.
Today Isabel Oakeshott, the political editor of the Sunday Times who
first revealed the story, said she believed Pryce "still loved her husband" even
as she plotted to destroy him by revealing she had taken his points, thereby
breaking the law.
Mrs Oakeshott said: "For all her anger and desire for revenge, I was sure she
still loved her husband and wanted him back."
The journalist described how Pryce had showed her confidential documents,
hoping she would spot something that could be used to damage Huhne.
Pryce allegedly went through some of his bank statements and complained to
Oakeshott about his vanity. She said he once went to a stylist to have his
"colours" done and took the advice so seriously that he threw away all the
shirts and ties that were the 'wrong' tones.
Tomorrow will bring the pair together in the dock one more time. Close
friends say Huhne wishes to call Pryce a liar over claims that he forced her
into having one abortion and tried to pressure her into having another.
Vicky Pryce was today seen shopping for a radio, socks and hair dye on what
could be her last afternoon of freedom ahead of her sentencing on Monday.
Vicky Pryce goes to a general
store to buy some rubbish bags and pocket tissues Photo: WENN
By Alice Philipson
5:24PM GMT 10 Mar 2013
Pryce was seen shopping in central London with a friend before she headed to
Sainsbury's, where she browsed the aisles for items that could provide comfort
if she is given a custodial sentence.
After looking at radio and socks in the supermarket she stopped at a cash
machine before buying some rubbish bags and pocket tissues at a general store.
Tomorrow Pryce, 60 and her former husband Chris Huhne, 58, will appear
together in the dock at Southwark Crown Court for sentencing. It is possible
both will be sent to jail over the speeding scam.
Granting her bail on Thursday, Mr Justice Sweeney warned the leading
economist to be under "no illusions" of the gravity of the offence and the
potential punishment.
If the judge does hand out a jail term to Pryce, it is likely she will be
held in HMP Holloway in Islington, North London for a short time before being
transferred to a lower category jail.
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An all-women prison, Holloway was once notorious for its grim conditions. Its
former high-profile inmates including serial killer Rose West and Maxine Carr,
girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and
Jessica Chapman.
Last Thursday Pryce was found guilty of perverting the course of justice by
taking Huhne's speeding points on his behalf. Huhne pleaded guilty to the same
offence last month.
Today Isabel Oakeshott, the political editor of the Sunday Times who
first revealed the story, said she believed Pryce "still loved her husband" even
as she plotted to destroy him by revealing she had taken his points, thereby
breaking the law.
Mrs Oakeshott said: "For all her anger and desire for revenge, I was sure she
still loved her husband and wanted him back."
The journalist described how Pryce had showed her confidential documents,
hoping she would spot something that could be used to damage Huhne.
Pryce allegedly went through some of his bank statements and complained to
Oakeshott about his vanity. She said he once went to a stylist to have his
"colours" done and took the advice so seriously that he threw away all the
shirts and ties that were the 'wrong' tones.
Tomorrow will bring the pair together in the dock one more time. Close
friends say Huhne wishes to call Pryce a liar over claims that he forced her
into having one abortion and tried to pressure her into having another.
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By Martin Brunt, Crime Correspondent
Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perverting the course of
justice for taking her husband's penalty points a decade ago.
A jury of seven men and five women returned their verdict almost exactly 48
hours after going out to deliberate.
Pryce, 60, looked open-mouthed with shock as the foreman told Southwark Crown
Court they had reached a unanimous guilty verdict.
Judge Mr Justice Sweeney granted bail until sentencing but warned she should
be "under no illusions" about what punishment to expect.
The former couple are now both facing jail and will be sentenced together, at
a date yet to be fixed.
As she left the court building, her solicitor Robert Brown said in a
statement that Pryce was "naturally very disappointed to have been
convicted".
She thanked "all those who have supported her during this difficult period,
particularly her children, her friends and colleagues".
Chris Huhne and his girlfriend Carina
Trimingham
Former Cabinet minister Huhne, 58, last month admitted lying to police about
who was driving just as he was about to go on trial.
His ex-wife and mother of his three children continued to protest her
innocence, arguing that she had been forced to take the speeding points against
her will.
She had to explain herself in two trials, after the first was abandoned
because the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
The former Government adviser told the retrial Huhne had bullied her into
pretending she was driving because he feared losing his licence would threaten
his political career.
He was an MEP at the time and was trying to get selected as the Lib Dem
candidate for Eastleigh in Hampshire.
Ironically, he was caught talking on his mobile while driving later that
year, which meant he lost his licence anyway.
To illustrate the senior Lib Dem's hold over her during their 26-year
marriage, Pryce told the court he had forced her to have an abortion in the
90s.
But prosecutor Andrew Edis QC called her a liar and described her as
"manipulative and deceitful".
"She is one of the most powerful, talented, intelligent and trusted women in
the country. She is not someone who could be reduced to a quivering jelly," he
insisted.
He pointed out that Pryce had not argued she was given no choice when she was
first arrested, instead refusing to answer police questions.
The points swap emerged only in 2011, when Pryce herself tipped off two
newspapers because she was furious that Huhne had left her for another
woman.
The Lib Dem abruptly walked out on their 26-year marriage in 2010 because his
affair with PR adviser Carina Trimingham was about to be revealed by the
press.
During Pryce's trial, the bitterness over their marriage split was laid bare
and angry phone calls - taped in a bid to trap Huhne admitting his crime - were
played to the jury.
Text messages between the politician and his then 18-year-old son Peter, in
which the teenager said his father made him "sick", were also revealed.
The court heard Pryce had told Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott
before the story broke that Vince Cable and his wife knew about the points
swap.
"Actually I had told Vince and Rachel (Mrs Cable) about points before when
the three of us were having supper about a month ago," she wrote.
"They were horrified at the time, but VC has probably forgotten it by now. He
was very tired that night."
She also claimed to have told senior Lib Dem Lord Oakeshott and the party
leader Nick Clegg's wife Miriam.
A spokesman for Mr Cable said: "Vince and Rachel have no recollection of the
issue of points being raised with them over the course of dinner with Vicky
Pryce on 28 January 2011.
"They have consulted their personal records, which confirm that the issue
first came to their attention in May 2011 when the story broke in the
press."
Miriam Gonzalez also said in a statement: "I have never ever been told by
Vicky or anybody else about the traffic points story. I got to know about this
when everybody else did."
The CPS said in a statement afterwards: "Perverting the course of justice is
a serious matter and the system relies on people being truthful to police. It is
important that everyone should act within the law - whoever they are."
Vicky Pryce has been found guilty of perverting the course of
justice for taking her husband's penalty points a decade ago.
A jury of seven men and five women returned their verdict almost exactly 48
hours after going out to deliberate.
Pryce, 60, looked open-mouthed with shock as the foreman told Southwark Crown
Court they had reached a unanimous guilty verdict.
Judge Mr Justice Sweeney granted bail until sentencing but warned she should
be "under no illusions" about what punishment to expect.
The former couple are now both facing jail and will be sentenced together, at
a date yet to be fixed.
As she left the court building, her solicitor Robert Brown said in a
statement that Pryce was "naturally very disappointed to have been
convicted".
She thanked "all those who have supported her during this difficult period,
particularly her children, her friends and colleagues".
Chris Huhne and his girlfriend Carina Trimingham
Former Cabinet minister Huhne, 58, last month admitted lying to police about
who was driving just as he was about to go on trial.
His ex-wife and mother of his three children continued to protest her
innocence, arguing that she had been forced to take the speeding points against
her will.
She had to explain herself in two trials, after the first was abandoned
because the jury was unable to reach a verdict.
The former Government adviser told the retrial Huhne had bullied her into
pretending she was driving because he feared losing his licence would threaten
his political career.
He was an MEP at the time and was trying to get selected as the Lib Dem
candidate for Eastleigh in Hampshire.
Ironically, he was caught talking on his mobile while driving later that
year, which meant he lost his licence anyway.
To illustrate the senior Lib Dem's hold over her during their 26-year
marriage, Pryce told the court he had forced her to have an abortion in the
90s.
But prosecutor Andrew Edis QC called her a liar and described her as
"manipulative and deceitful".
"She is one of the most powerful, talented, intelligent and trusted women in
the country. She is not someone who could be reduced to a quivering jelly," he
insisted.
He pointed out that Pryce had not argued she was given no choice when she was
first arrested, instead refusing to answer police questions.
The points swap emerged only in 2011, when Pryce herself tipped off two
newspapers because she was furious that Huhne had left her for another
woman.
The Lib Dem abruptly walked out on their 26-year marriage in 2010 because his
affair with PR adviser Carina Trimingham was about to be revealed by the
press.
During Pryce's trial, the bitterness over their marriage split was laid bare
and angry phone calls - taped in a bid to trap Huhne admitting his crime - were
played to the jury.
Text messages between the politician and his then 18-year-old son Peter, in
which the teenager said his father made him "sick", were also revealed.
The court heard Pryce had told Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott
before the story broke that Vince Cable and his wife knew about the points
swap.
"Actually I had told Vince and Rachel (Mrs Cable) about points before when
the three of us were having supper about a month ago," she wrote.
"They were horrified at the time, but VC has probably forgotten it by now. He
was very tired that night."
She also claimed to have told senior Lib Dem Lord Oakeshott and the party
leader Nick Clegg's wife Miriam.
A spokesman for Mr Cable said: "Vince and Rachel have no recollection of the
issue of points being raised with them over the course of dinner with Vicky
Pryce on 28 January 2011.
"They have consulted their personal records, which confirm that the issue
first came to their attention in May 2011 when the story broke in the
press."
Miriam Gonzalez also said in a statement: "I have never ever been told by
Vicky or anybody else about the traffic points story. I got to know about this
when everybody else did."
The CPS said in a statement afterwards: "Perverting the course of justice is
a serious matter and the system relies on people being truthful to police. It is
important that everyone should act within the law - whoever they are."
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BBC BREAKING NEWS: Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne is sentenced to 8 months in prison for perverting the course of justice
ETA: Ian S @iannlou
Vicky Pryce gets 8 months jail too
BBC BREAKING NEWS: Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne is sentenced to 8 months in prison for perverting the course of justice
ETA: Ian S @iannlou
Vicky Pryce gets 8 months jail too
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Thanks AnnaEsse......that was quick, I thought the sentence had not been established today.AnnaEsse wrote:Steve Clark @steveclarkuk
BBC BREAKING NEWS: Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne is sentenced to 8 months in prison for perverting the course of justice
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Vicky Pryce gets 8 months jail too
"The former couple are now both facing jail and will be sentenced together, at
a date yet to be fixed."
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malena stool Mon 11 Mar - 18:53
What about the hundreds of thousands of pounds spent in the investigation and prosecution of the case? How can they justify an 'Honourable Member', a highly respected person, a Cabinet Minister with powers and knowledge mere mortals could never be trusted with, lying through his teeth to avoid points on his licence?
The arrogant lying toad should serve every day of the sentence awarded and made to pay every last penny of prosecution cost.
Undoubtedly he'll be out within 4 months, write his memoirs, retire to the country seat and receive a knighthood in the next honours list.
The arrogant lying toad should serve every day of the sentence awarded and made to pay every last penny of prosecution cost.
Undoubtedly he'll be out within 4 months, write his memoirs, retire to the country seat and receive a knighthood in the next honours list.
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Vicky Pryce moved to open prison
Vicky Pryce has been moved an open prison after spending just four nights
inside HMP Holloway, one of the toughest jails in the country.
Vicky Pryce, pictured leaving
court following her guilty verdict, has told a friend that she is "fine" in
prison Photo: Eddie
Mulholland
By Hayley Dixon
10:30AM GMT 17 Mar 2013
Pryce, who was jailed for eight months alongside her former husband Chris
Huhne last Monday after taking his speeding points, was transferred to East
Sutton Park Prison on Friday, it is reported.
The open prison is in an Elizabethan mansion in beautiful grounds in the Kent
countryside and is said to practice a much more relaxed regime.
According to the Mail on Sunday she told a friend: "I'm fine." She added that
she was 'settling in' at East Sutton Park open prison near Maidstone and
insisted staff were treating her very well.
Other prisoners were shocked by the speed of her transfer from the Holloway,
the largest women’s prison in Europe, to the new Category D jail with 100
prisoners.
The 60-year-old economist is expected to be allowed out on day release within
weeks. She will only serve half of her eight month sentence for perverting the
course of justice over a decade old speeding offence.
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A source told The Sun that she had made the move to the “more relaxed” prison
in “record time”.
"There won't be a lockdown where you have to return to your room by a set
time, for example. It's very different to other jails," they said.
It is believed that she was moved so quickly because she is a low-risk
prisoner.
Former Energy Secretary Huhne, 58, remains in London's Wandsworth prison, but
is also expected to be moved with the week.
The grade II-listed 15th Century prison provides farms, gardens and catering
courses and is described on the Ministry of Justice website as “a pleasant
mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent”.
The website adds: “It holds both adult and young offender women in open
conditions preparing them for resettlement in the community.”
She will be able to wear her own clothes and hire a TV and use a
fridge-freezer at the prison which even has a rarebreed farm with 17 horses in
the grounds.
The relaxed prison, which once housed the Duchess of York aide Jane Andrews,
will be in sharp contrast to Holloway, the imposing Victorian prison in north
London once notorious for its grim conditions.
Holloway’s former high-profile inmates include serial killer Rose West and
Maxine Carr, girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Whilst in Holloway it was reported that she was sharing a dormitory with
three other women.
It is believed that she was transferred to the open prison alongside April
Casburn, the disgraced former Detective Chief Inspector convicted of corruption
after attempting to sell information about the phone hacking investigation to
the News of the World.
Although an open prison, East Sutton Park's dormitories and lack of privacy
is still a far cry from her normal home - a £2.5million five bedroom elegant
Georgian townhouse, in Clapham Common, south-west London.
The move comes after her family raised concerns about her welfare, with her
brother George Courmouzis telling the BBC that he was “worried”.
He added: “Our family has no experience of going to prison. Physically, Vicky
is very frail.”
Pryce prompted the downfall when she went told a newspaper about the speeding
offence in an attempt to “nail” her ex husband after he left her for another
woman.
Vicky Pryce has been moved an open prison after spending just four nights
inside HMP Holloway, one of the toughest jails in the country.
Vicky Pryce, pictured leaving
court following her guilty verdict, has told a friend that she is "fine" in
prison Photo: Eddie
Mulholland
By Hayley Dixon
10:30AM GMT 17 Mar 2013
Pryce, who was jailed for eight months alongside her former husband Chris
Huhne last Monday after taking his speeding points, was transferred to East
Sutton Park Prison on Friday, it is reported.
The open prison is in an Elizabethan mansion in beautiful grounds in the Kent
countryside and is said to practice a much more relaxed regime.
According to the Mail on Sunday she told a friend: "I'm fine." She added that
she was 'settling in' at East Sutton Park open prison near Maidstone and
insisted staff were treating her very well.
Other prisoners were shocked by the speed of her transfer from the Holloway,
the largest women’s prison in Europe, to the new Category D jail with 100
prisoners.
The 60-year-old economist is expected to be allowed out on day release within
weeks. She will only serve half of her eight month sentence for perverting the
course of justice over a decade old speeding offence.
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A source told The Sun that she had made the move to the “more relaxed” prison
in “record time”.
"There won't be a lockdown where you have to return to your room by a set
time, for example. It's very different to other jails," they said.
It is believed that she was moved so quickly because she is a low-risk
prisoner.
Former Energy Secretary Huhne, 58, remains in London's Wandsworth prison, but
is also expected to be moved with the week.
The grade II-listed 15th Century prison provides farms, gardens and catering
courses and is described on the Ministry of Justice website as “a pleasant
mansion house overlooking the Weald of Kent”.
The website adds: “It holds both adult and young offender women in open
conditions preparing them for resettlement in the community.”
She will be able to wear her own clothes and hire a TV and use a
fridge-freezer at the prison which even has a rarebreed farm with 17 horses in
the grounds.
The relaxed prison, which once housed the Duchess of York aide Jane Andrews,
will be in sharp contrast to Holloway, the imposing Victorian prison in north
London once notorious for its grim conditions.
Holloway’s former high-profile inmates include serial killer Rose West and
Maxine Carr, girlfriend of Soham killer Ian Huntley, who murdered schoolgirls
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
Whilst in Holloway it was reported that she was sharing a dormitory with
three other women.
It is believed that she was transferred to the open prison alongside April
Casburn, the disgraced former Detective Chief Inspector convicted of corruption
after attempting to sell information about the phone hacking investigation to
the News of the World.
Although an open prison, East Sutton Park's dormitories and lack of privacy
is still a far cry from her normal home - a £2.5million five bedroom elegant
Georgian townhouse, in Clapham Common, south-west London.
The move comes after her family raised concerns about her welfare, with her
brother George Courmouzis telling the BBC that he was “worried”.
He added: “Our family has no experience of going to prison. Physically, Vicky
is very frail.”
Pryce prompted the downfall when she went told a newspaper about the speeding
offence in an attempt to “nail” her ex husband after he left her for another
woman.
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malena stool Sun 17 Mar - 13:06
Hopefully similar considerations will be given to others who are sentenced for similar offences... But I'll not be holding my breath in expectation that the wicked smelly masses will fare as well as this pair of revolting 'elite' toads.
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malena stool wrote:Hopefully similar considerations will be given to others who are sentenced for similar offences... But I'll not be holding my breath in expectation that the wicked smelly masses will fare as well as this pair of revolting 'elite' toads.
hi malena, beneath all the venom, Vicki Ptyce is an educated Woman, as is her ex husband. Oh how the mighty have fallen , these two will feel it more than others.
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malena stool Sun 17 Mar - 13:53
Hi Panda, I do believe this pair represent barely the tip of the iceberg as far as corrupt practices go in Parliament. Almost every other week there is a new revelation of fighting in the members bar, collusion with the media or a continuum of the expenses scandal. These scrofulous traitors are supposedly elected to run UK GB for the good of the nation, not use the opportunity to fill their boots... If you or I were to be caught out robbing our employers we'd be wearing HMP clothing, toot sweet. How many of the deviants we are paying good money to really belong behind bars? Probably the majority in all reality are on the fiddle.Panda wrote:malena stool wrote:Hopefully similar considerations will be given to others who are sentenced for similar offences... But I'll not be holding my breath in expectation that the wicked smelly masses will fare as well as this pair of revolting 'elite' toads.
hi malena, beneath all the venom, Vicki Ptyce is an educated Woman, as is her ex husband. Oh how the mighty have fallen , these two will feel it more than others.
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Panda Sun 17 Mar - 14:12
malena, I too have never known such corruption in our Government , but it is not just Government, it is Banks, Businesses,Benefit cheats, standards falling everywhere.
I remember when I was a child General Elections were welcomed, a bonfire in the middle of the Street, singing
Vote, vote vote for Mr. Callaghan,
Kick old Churchill out the door,
If I had a penny gun
I would shoot him up the bum
And he wouldn't come around here any more.
Sad eh!!!
Now you don't even get to meet your prospective Candidate , a leaflet through the Letterbox is all the canvassing they do.
I remember when I was a child General Elections were welcomed, a bonfire in the middle of the Street, singing
Vote, vote vote for Mr. Callaghan,
Kick old Churchill out the door,
If I had a penny gun
I would shoot him up the bum
And he wouldn't come around here any more.
Sad eh!!!
Now you don't even get to meet your prospective Candidate , a leaflet through the Letterbox is all the canvassing they do.
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malena stool Sun 17 Mar - 14:15
Panda wrote:malena, I too have never known such corruption in our Government , but it is not just Government, it is Banks, Businesses,Benefit cheats, standards falling everywhere.
I remember when I was a child General Elections were welcomed, a bonfire in the middle of the Street, singing
Vote, vote vote for Mr. Callaghan,
Kick old Churchill out the door,
If I had a penny gun
I would shoot him up the bum
And he wouldn't come around her any more.
Sad eh!!!
Now you don't even get to meet your prospective Candidate , a leaflet through the Letterbox is all the canvassing they do.
I remember singing something like that... Reminiscing is good for self esteem.... Thanks 
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Panda Sun 17 Mar - 14:27
I'm glad I was born in the era of ration books, small fashion shops where they put a garment away for yiou and you paid so much a week until it was paid for before they let you have it. I don't ever remember feeling deprived because everyone was in the same boat, but our Generation, even now will not live beyond their means. "Credit" came about in the 50's to stimulate the economy but it is a burden most carry today.malena stool wrote:Panda wrote:malena, I too have never known such corruption in our Government , but it is not just Government, it is Banks, Businesses,Benefit cheats, standards falling everywhere.
I remember when I was a child General Elections were welcomed, a bonfire in the middle of the Street, singing
Vote, vote vote for Mr. Callaghan,
Kick old Churchill out the door,
If I had a penny gun
I would shoot him up the bum
And he wouldn't come around her any more.
Sad eh!!!
Now you don't even get to meet your prospective Candidate , a leaflet through the Letterbox is all the canvassing they do.
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