Chris Huhne's career in tatters as lies finally catch up with former minister- Chris Huhne has been exposed as a serial liar who was prepared to sacrifice his relationship with his son and run up taxpayer-funded bills of £250,000 in his attempts to cheat justice.
The former energy secretary quit politics in disgrace and faces the prospect of prison after he finally admitted asking his former wife to take speeding points for him.On the day he was due to be tried for perverting the course of justice, he unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty, having protested his innocence for almost two years, and was warned by a judge that he should have “no illusions whatsoever” about his likely sentence.
It can now be disclosed that Huhne tried to get the case against him thrown out during a series of pre-trial hearings at which his defence claimed the case against him was “at best gossamer thin” and sought to portray him as the victim of a potential miscarriage of justice.
05 Feb 2013, 5:23 am
