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Vicky Pryce is guilty

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UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 07/03/2013 15:05

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duchesse · 11/03/2013 18:07

What makes me very cross indeed is that people seem unable to separate out hearsay and media reports from what actually happened in the legal process. It just leads to a most unsavoury trial by media.

BerylStreep · 11/03/2013 18:07

Huhne has shown courage by pleading guilty??? WTAF

lottieandmia · 11/03/2013 18:08

The thing I don't understand is, how could she not have realised that she would end up being tried for this?

claig · 11/03/2013 18:08

' I don't think a man would ever have been called "devious and manipulative".'

I have googled it with the word judge and it does happen.

carlajean · 11/03/2013 18:11

but she did consider implicating Jo White, otherwise she wouldn't have suggested it. I know it wasn't part of the evidence, but VP obviously thought it was a possibility, otherwise she wouldn't have mentioned it to the reporter!

KateShrub · 11/03/2013 18:11

It seems quite a common description of criminals, surprisingly enough:
goo.gl/Am9UF

feeltheforce · 11/03/2013 18:12

That's why her judgement was impaired. Any rational person would see that if he goes down so do you. But she behaving irrationally.

claig · 11/03/2013 18:12

'The thing I don't understand is, how could she not have realised that she would end up being tried for this? '

I think she probably hoped she would not be, but as it snowballed realised that she might be. But it seems that her overriding concern was to end his career even if it backfired on her.

feeltheforce · 11/03/2013 18:13

I hadn't heard about implicating another person. Is that definitely true?

claig · 11/03/2013 18:14

Is it irrational? It must have galled her to watch him being feted while she gave up her job due to potential conflict of interest and watched him walk away from a long marriage to be with someone whom she had trusted. I don't think it is irrational to want to see him humbled.

claig · 11/03/2013 18:17

This is what the Telegraph reported on it

' In an attempt to damage her ex-husband while protecting herself, Pryce had initially told journalists that the disgraced former cabinet minister made Jo White, a party aide in the constituency of Eastleigh in Hampshire, take his points in late 2002 or early 2003.

However, the reporters discovered that Miss White, 39, did not have a driving licence at the relevant time and so the story fell apart.

The Lib-Dem aide was left ?flustered? and ?crying her eyes out? when the Mail on Sunday contacted her to suggest she had accepted Huhne?s points, Pryce said in an email to Miss Oakeshott.

Pryce then realised that she would have to tell the truth in order to expose Huhne, and so went to The Sunday Times with the full story that it was in fact her who had taken the penalty points.

In her evidence at the trial, Pryce claimed that Huhne told her that Miss White had accepted his points in the past when he was trying to persuade her to take responsibility for his speeding offence in March 2003.

She told the court: "He said, 'others have taken points for me, why can't my wife?'

"He mentioned that Jo White had taken his points. I found it slightly hard to believe at the beginning."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/9870080/How-Vicky-Pryce-smeared-innocent-Lib-Dem-activist.html

claig · 11/03/2013 18:18

It doesn't say that she asked the paper to print that, and she didn't say that to the police, so I am not sure that it is so clear cut as has been reported, but I may be wrong.

lottieandmia · 11/03/2013 18:18

I also think the judge's comments were misogynistic and I also don't like people being made an example of. I know someone who got done for drink driving. He was 7 times over the limit and crashed his car and he was not given a sentance - he just had to pay a fine.

limitedperiodonly · 11/03/2013 18:19

Pryce claimed a lot of things, didn't she?

feeltheforce · 11/03/2013 18:20

Honestly he is such a git. I am glad he is going to jail. Maybe if I was her, I'd think my own sentence was a price worth paying to see him suffer except of course that they have children. Such a terrible shame for them.

Dooasyouwood · 11/03/2013 18:22

I was under the impression it was CHs QC who said he was courageous not the judge.

olgaga · 11/03/2013 18:23

so olgaga how do you feel about her trying to implicate an innocent woman in this

I think the fact that she hadn't thought it through is pretty obvious! Given that the aide (who I don't think was actually named) didn't even have a driving licence...

Irrational, yes - but I don't think someone truly devious and manipulative would have ended up in such a mess.

limitedperiodonly · 11/03/2013 18:24

lottie drink driving is an absolute offence. If the person you know was found to be over the alcohol limit while driving he'd have been banned for a minimum of 12 months. No argument.

At seven times over the limit he'd have been looking at a prison sentence and a longer ban.

claig · 11/03/2013 18:24

'He was 7 times over the limit and crashed his car and he was not given a sentance - he just had to pay a fine.'

Was he a master of the funny handshake?

Dooasyouwood · 11/03/2013 18:24

The judge said VP had a:

"controlling, manipulative and devious side,"

How is that misogynistic? It appears to be true.

BigBoobiedBertha · 11/03/2013 18:25

I am not sure either of them know what the truth is any more. They've both woven such a web of deceipt.

And of course men get called manipulative all the time in court in both criminal and divorce cases.

feeltheforce · 11/03/2013 18:25

I hope it was his QC because there is nothing courageous about lying continuously, fighting the prosecution and costing the tax payer £75k to prosecute.

limitedperiodonly · 11/03/2013 18:25

I don't think someone truly devious and manipulative would have ended up in such a mess.

I'd just think they're not very good at it

olgaga · 11/03/2013 18:25

You can read the Judge's full remarks here.

catsrus · 11/03/2013 18:26

she didn't try to implicate an innocent woman - she reported what CH had told her in order to get her to go along with it!

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