Chris Huhne Blames Constance Briscoe For His Imprisonment In Gob-Smacking Column

The Best Twitter Reaction To That Gob-Smacking Chris Huhne Column
I was guilty, but I went to prison because of a lie, Chris Huhne has lamented
I was guilty, but I went to prison because of a lie, Chris Huhne has lamented
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In a column that reads like a paperback thriller from the bargain bin of an airport bookshop, disgraced ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne has said he was imprisoned "on the basis of a lie", even though he admits he was guilty.

The former Lib Dem Energy minister said he was eager to "tell the tangled tale of the crooked judge, the criminal cabinet minister and his vengeful wife" now that barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe was imprisoned for lying that she had known about his ex-wife Vicky Pryce having taken his speeding points. Both were jailed for nine months for the offence.

It was Briscoe's lies, Huhne said, which meant he strung out his 'not guilty' plea for so long, before pleading guilty on the day the trial opened.

"I went on denying guilt and hoping that I could cause the prosecution case to collapse. Nothing encourages a defence like being fitted up with fake evidence," he wrote in his Guardian column.

The gob-smacking column meant that Chris Huhne was one of the UK's top trending topics over the bank holiday weekend, and caused a storm of debate on social media.

There's the simple kind of response:

There's those baffled by the duplicity of a man claiming he shouldn't have been prosecuted for a crime he did actually commit, because someone else happened to be lying as well.

There were many who thought it was wildly inappropriate to compare Huhne's case to the abysmal care at Mid-Staffs NHS. He wrote there was "a touch of Stafford hospital or Bristol Royal infirmary [about this case], where doctors turned a blind eye to rogue or incompetent colleagues."

There's some who suspect there could be a hint of the Guardian trolling its readers.

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