Disgraced former couple will face sentencing together

2:31pm Friday 8th March 2013 in News

Disgraced MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, will be sentenced on Monday, the Crown Prosecution Service said today.

The former couple are both facing jail terms at the hearing at Southwark Crown Court at 2pm.

Pryce was found guilty by a jury yesterday of perverting the course of justice by taking speeding points for Huhne in 2003. The former energy secretary had already pleaded guilty to the charge.

Perverting the course of justice carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, although the average sentence is around 10 months.

Both 58-year-old Huhne and economist Pryce, 60, have been warned to be under no illusion about what punishment they face.

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bazzeroz says...
3:35pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Let's see if there's one rule for them and another for us! 10 years each inside, sounds good to me.

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Donald2000 says...
3:50pm Fri 8 Mar 13

The CPS sentencing guidelines indicate that the average period of imprisonment for this offence is between 12-36 months, so how you work out 10 years is slightly beyond my understanding.

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Subject48 says...
3:59pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Whats the bet it will be a suspended sentence or some other BS.

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griffon says...
4:06pm Fri 8 Mar 13

two years for him and 6 months for her I reckon plus the trial costs they seem more than able to affford

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sgm1961 says...
6:57pm Fri 8 Mar 13

What a waste of tax payers money and now we are going to keep them both for 6 months or so, absolute joke!

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userds5050 says...
7:25pm Fri 8 Mar 13

griffon wrote:
two years for him and 6 months for her I reckon plus the trial costs they seem more than able to affford
She's prob gonna get longer than him on account of him pleading guilty. She should get an extra six months for using marital corecion as a defence for a start.

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MiddleOfRoad says...
9:46pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Definitely not offences appropriate for imprisonment. Prison should be reserved for repeat serious offenders and violent offences.
Community based punishments, though currently thin on the ground, or suspended sentences etc are the appropriate outcomes for this type of offence and the absence of any risk of re-offending.

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VictorMeldrew says...
12:51am Sat 9 Mar 13

Take their money to help reduce the defecit. Hope she regrets her plan to destroy him. Sometimes these things come back and bite you where your sitd

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hythe knights says...
11:31am Sat 9 Mar 13

Fine them the total costs for trial and what it would cost for prison term and all the money he has earned as a mp while waiting for the trial and triple it to teach these corrupt deviants a lesson.

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sgm1961 says...
1:20pm Sun 10 Mar 13

Excellent idea hythe knights.........

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