Vicky Pryce Verdict....

[formant]

No one got hurt.

Two adults brought their marital squabbles into the public domain, and, in doing so, cost you and I, the taxpayers, a small fortune. I've just paid my corp tax, which won't even cover a fraction of the cost of it all. Now we're going to pay to keep the pair of them locked up. IMO, better to get them to pay the costs, a fine on top, and pull shopping trolleys out the local canal at weekends or some other such useful activity. And ban them both from driving for a couple of years for good measure.

I bet 1000s of people 'take points' to avoid their partner getting a ban. It's the prolonged court case and the cost of it all that's the real crime.

Mostly agree with this. In theory I'm glad that they both got a fairly 'serious' sentence, but in reality, I'd prefer we only locked up those criminals who actually pose a threat to other people.

I think the sentence doesn't act as a deterrent either. All that this shows is that if you take points for someone else you're no less guilty of it than they are, so it's not worth trying to 'expose' them when the relationship turns sour. There's absolutely no deterrent in relation to keeping people from taking someone else's points as such.

[Sysman]

It's the prolonged court case and the cost of it all that's the real crime.

IMHO it's the swines thinking they can get away with it.

Charge them the proper costs of the courts and prison and the taxpayer should be OK.

It should be a lesson for others who wish to pervert the course of justice.

And yes, it is totally stupid. A fine is a fine no matter who pays, but the UK insists on being vindictive with the driving licence points.

The vindictive UK driving licence points system is totally to blame here. It was devised long before the aim of the speeding system was to earn money, so is invalid in my humble opinion.

Earn money and don't steal folks' driving licences and therefore their jobs isn't such a bad idea?

Or could we have more sensible speed limits that folks don't need to exceed?

[mudskipper]

IMHO it's the swines thinking they can get away with it.

Charge them the proper costs of the courts and prison and the taxpayer should be OK.

It should be a lesson for others who wish to pervert the course of justice.

And yes, it is totally stupid. A fine is a fine no matter who pays, but the UK insists on being vindictive with the driving licence points.

The vindictive UK driving licence points system is totally to blame here.

As someone alluded to in another thread - I'd love to see the fallout if the original speeding conviction was proved to be invalid because of 'wrong font' or somesuch.

[Cliphead]

As someone alluded to in another thread - I'd love to see the fallout if the original speeding conviction was proved to be invalid because of 'wrong font' or somesuch.

Isn't perverting the course of justice the real issue here? Lying to the police comes under that but is less serious than other ways of trying to gain advantage.

If he hadn't been shagging somebody else it would have never have come to light in the first place, she wanted revenge and it blew up in her face. If you can't do the time...

[tractor]

IMHO it's the swines thinking they can get away with it.

Charge them the proper costs of the courts and prison and the taxpayer should be OK.

It should be a lesson for others who wish to pervert the course of justice.

And yes, it is totally stupid. A fine is a fine no matter who pays, but the UK insists on being vindictive with the driving licence points.

The vindictive UK driving licence points system is totally to blame here. It was devised long before the aim of the speeding system was to earn money, so is invalid in my humble opinion.

Earn money and don't steal folks' driving licences and therefore their jobs isn't such a bad idea?

Or could we have more sensible speed limits that folks don't need to exceed?

For some people, it does not matter what the structure of punishments is; this guy had been done for speeding several times already AND while this was all waiting to be heard was done for using a mobile whilst driving. He had a total disregard for the law which included an attempt to pervert the course of justice. He lost his bottle when it came to perjury and changed his plea. He should have been fined according to his ability to pay - about 500k should have done it. Plus 1000 hours community service. And equal treatment for the ex just for good measure!

One has to ask, with such a cavalier attitude, what else has he got away with over the years?

[Sysman]

As someone alluded to in another thread - I'd love to see the fallout if the original speeding conviction was proved to be invalid because of 'wrong font' or somesuch.

Agree, but I have just updated my original post.

At this point I will moan that I was justifiably done for speeding doing a job just before I started at college, and the vindictive system that was in place then told me that I wasn't allowed to drive the college minibus (driven at that time by a permanently drunk loon, but with a clean licence). With an endorsement on my licence that was only supposed to last 3 years, the bastards changed that to 4 years before I could get it scrubbed, so after 3 years at uni I still couldn't apply for a job which involved a company car.

Twats the lot of them.

[Sysman]

For some people, it does not matter what the structure of punishments is; this guy had been done for speeding several times already AND while this was all waiting to be heard was done for using a mobile whilst driving. He had a total disregard for the law which included an attempt to pervert the course of justice. He lost his bottle when it came to perjury and changed his plea. He should have been fined according to his ability to pay - about 500k should have done it. Plus 1000 hours community service. And equal treatment for the ex just for good measure!

One has to ask, with such a cavalier attitude, what else has he got away with over the years?

OK. I will admit that in my twenties I was a complete speed merchant, as was everyone else in those days (and I must mention that it was encouraged by my bosses when I was a permie, with statements such as "We will pay your speeding fines").

But things have changed over the years. In 1999 I bought a car that was capable of 145 mph but unless I found an empty stretch of the right sort of German Autobahn I could not seriously use that. Yes I would have loved to have ripped up from Dover to Yorkshire at those kind of speeds in the dead of night with no traffic but I really didn't want to see the fines they might have levied on me given foreign registration plates.

[moorfield]

9.35pm

Chris should have had his first DRE done by now ...

What a pity the pair haven't been locked up together in the same cell.

[oracleslave]

9.35pm

Chris should have had his first DRE done by now ...

What a pity the pair haven't been locked up together in the same cell.

HMP Holloway women's football team are looking good for next season now that they have a guaranteed penalty taker.

[hyperD]

Huhne was just another insidious political parasite that thought he was above the law and was an elite where the rules for the little people do not apply.

He finally got caught. I just wish it was 8 years.

She was just a vengeful harpie that also thought she was clever enough to bypass the laws we all have to abide by.

She also deserved 8 years.

Whilst I agree with mudskipper that it is a waste of taxpayers money to imprison this filth, I for one am enjoying a certain schadenfreude to know that these Righteous are getting a feel of what it is like to experience the full consequences of their own selfish and malicious actions.

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