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Lord Archer has been jailed for four years after being found guilty of perverting the
course of justice and perjury at the Old Bailey.
The jury found him guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily
Star.
He was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury.
Archer was also ordered to pay £175,000 costs within 12 months and was told by the
judge he would have to serve at least half of his sentence.
Before sentencing him, the judge Mr Justice Potts told Archer: "These charges
represent as serious an offence of perjury as I have had experience of and have been
able to find in the books."
His former friend and co-defendant Ted Francis was cleared of perverting the course
of justice by providing Archer with a false alibi.
Archer was cleared of one count of perverting the course of justice.
The judge told the peer: "Sentencing you Lord Archer gives me no pleasure at all , I
assure you. It has been an extremely distasteful case, I can tell you."
The judge, who was conducting his last case, said it was the most serious case of
perjury he had come across. He said he had to b ear in mind that Archer had
resumed his political career and gone from "strength to strength" after committing the
crime.
He was sentenced to two years for the first count of perverting the course of justice,
four years for a second similar charge, three years for count five of perjury and four
years for count six, also of perjury.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
Just another one of Thacher's "scumbag henchmen" gets a jail term............GOOD I hope some big thug makes him his boyfriend
course of justice and perjury at the Old Bailey.
The jury found him guilty of lying and cheating in his 1987 libel case against the Daily
Star.
He was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury.
Archer was also ordered to pay £175,000 costs within 12 months and was told by the
judge he would have to serve at least half of his sentence.
Before sentencing him, the judge Mr Justice Potts told Archer: "These charges
represent as serious an offence of perjury as I have had experience of and have been
able to find in the books."
His former friend and co-defendant Ted Francis was cleared of perverting the course
of justice by providing Archer with a false alibi.
Archer was cleared of one count of perverting the course of justice.
The judge told the peer: "Sentencing you Lord Archer gives me no pleasure at all , I
assure you. It has been an extremely distasteful case, I can tell you."
The judge, who was conducting his last case, said it was the most serious case of
perjury he had come across. He said he had to b ear in mind that Archer had
resumed his political career and gone from "strength to strength" after committing the
crime.
He was sentenced to two years for the first count of perverting the course of justice,
four years for a second similar charge, three years for count five of perjury and four
years for count six, also of perjury.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
Just another one of Thacher's "scumbag henchmen" gets a jail term............GOOD I hope some big thug makes him his boyfriend
