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to feel sorry for Vengeful Vicky? The Price was too high...

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Corygal · 11/03/2013 22:07

Honestly. Huhne actually did the crime. She was just trying to out the brute. Fine reward for being a grass, the police are always saying they protect you if you do - yep.

Deeply misogynist, to boot. A sharp slap to the uppity wife who had the cheek to ask to be treated like a human being - now she's called a harridan, a witch, and, of course, overemotional 'blinded by rage and grief' acc the judge.

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InNeedOfBrandy · 11/03/2013 22:08

I agree I thought the judge took great pleasure in sending her to jail and preaching about revenge.

Gossipmonster · 11/03/2013 22:09

Not sure what I think but I am adamant our jails don't need to be cluttered up with these people.

grovel · 11/03/2013 22:10

She could have pleaded guilty. She might not be in the slammer now.

If you want to take revenge dig two graves first.

ISeeSmallPeople · 11/03/2013 22:13

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Twogoodreasons · 11/03/2013 22:13

I think she knew exactly what she was doing when she took the points. I think they were both arrogant and ambitious and thought they were above the law. I think it is telling that she approached a journalist with the story - not the police and initially claimed that someone else had taken the points for her ex-H. I think they both deserve what they got, but I am surprised they were sentenced to 8 months. I thinks a member of the general public would have got off more lightly.

uniqueatlast · 11/03/2013 22:14

Perhaps if she hadn't gone to the press and been seen as so vengeful in the emails she sent about wanting to bring him down, she'd have had more sympathy.

If she'd have walked into a police station and explained what happened, it had been preying on her conscience and now they'd separated she felt in a position to tell the truth she would probably not be spending a night behind bars and she'd still have put an end to his career.

As someone with a (n at times) stroppy and persuasive H, I can see how she may well have been coerced into it (and have been put in the same position - think of the consequences to the family if I lose my licence). She'd have "won" had she played it in a more subtle way.

It was the going to the press that lost my sympathy.

WhoWhatWhereWhen · 11/03/2013 22:14

It was about revenge, or did she suddenly realise what she did was wrong and felt compelled to correct her mistake?

Jinsei · 11/03/2013 22:15

I think it's fair enough tbh. Yes, Huhne was guilty of the speeding, but they were both guilty of trying to pervert the course of justice, and it isn't exactly as if she confessed because she was overcome by remorse. Had he not gone off with another woman, she'd have sat on that lie for the rest of her life.

More fool her, I say. She was an idiot for having taken the points, and she was an idiot to think that she could land him in it without having to face the consequences herself.

I have no sympathy for either of them, I'm afraid, but I do feel terribly sorry for their children - the whole saga must have been a terrible ordeal for them! :(

floweryblue · 11/03/2013 22:15

Seems odd to me that she has had the same sentence as him.

He did the original offence, their joint perversion of the course of justice was led by him and revealed by her.

Why is she being given an equal punishment?

DP once asked me if I would take the blame for his driving offence, he was most upset when I point blank refused, he simply couldn't understand it (I don't drive, at all, ever, so according to him it wouldn't affect me), so for a few weeks I was the devil incarnate in our house because I am not prepared to lie to the authorities...

scurryfunge · 11/03/2013 22:16

I agree with twogoodreasons.

SkivingAgain · 11/03/2013 22:21

This was virtually a victimless crime, agree that prison is no place for them. On the other hand, seriously pissed off at the cost to the state of this prosecution so would have preferred their punishment to be full reimbursement. Reputational damage on top of that would have been punishment enough.

Jinsei · 11/03/2013 22:21

Why is she being given an equal punishment?

As far as I know, she'd have got less if she had pleaded guilty, and he'd have got longer if he hadn't.

WorraLiberty · 11/03/2013 22:22

I think they both should have got community service to be honest.

But I disagree about the misogyny.

It's not like she had a sudden change of heart and went to the Police to confess all because she couldn't live with herself.

She used it to blackmail him and then expose his wrongdoings to the world.

She must have been either very stupid or very arrogant to think he would be the only one to get in trouble for it.

Gossipmonster · 11/03/2013 22:23

They will have to pay back the court costs.

Jinsei · 11/03/2013 22:27

Also, I don't see why the fact that she revealed the crime should count in her favour. She had her own motives for letting the secret out, and they weren't the type of reasons she should be rewarded for.

Confessing to a crime because you regret any wrongdoing and want to pay the price for that is very different to confessing something out of spite in the hope that it will destroy another person's reputation and career. Some lenience might be appropriate in the former situation, but none in the latter if you ask me!

notactuallyme · 11/03/2013 22:30

Actually, most of the misogny has been directed at the 'bisexual' ow who 'looked like a man' - can't believe how awful the media has been over her appearance (even nick ferrari this am mentioning some bloke she apparently looks like) as an aside to this whole saga.

Jinsei · 11/03/2013 22:30

X post with worra.

And I agree that jail seems an extreme sentence given the nature of the crime, but the courts always come down quite heavily on perverting the course of justice convictions.

wannaBe · 11/03/2013 22:31

I don't think they (either of them) should be in jail, our jails are overcrowded as it is.

But I don't have sympathy for either of them and I don't think there was anything misogynistic about sentencing - people are too quick to jump to her defense purely because she's a woman IMO.

This didn't have anything to do with remorse or wanting the truth out - it had everything to do with revenge.

Seabright · 11/03/2013 22:34

Yes, this sentence isn't for speeding,it's for perverting the course of justice, which is a really, really serious offence.

That said, I'm surprised her sentence was as high as his. I thought he'd get 18-24 months and she'd get 3-6 months and that hers would possibly be suspended.

thebody · 11/03/2013 22:36

Totally agree twogoodreasons.

Gossipmonster · 11/03/2013 22:39

"Her career as one of the country's top Economists is severely compromised" says Newsnight.

Slight understatement I'd say .

FreudiansSlipper · 11/03/2013 22:41

the judges summing up she is controlling, vindictive why not say it hell hath no fury blah blah

let's ignore why they are court in the first place

grovel · 11/03/2013 22:42

Gossipmonster, yep she's now a deranged Greek female with no judgment.

Welovegrapes · 11/03/2013 22:44

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Gossipmonster · 11/03/2013 22:45

Yep grovel.

Least we know even the "top drawer" can have their "Psycho Ex" moments

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