williams89 said:
JohnD You mentioned the Jeffrey Archer approach to truth.
Jeffrey archers' sentence was OUTRAGEOUS. Every time a member of the government stands at the dispatch box, we hear lies. They have the protection of the house. Even outside parliament buildings they lie on a daily basis. Lord Archer got got grassed by a so called friend. He has raised millions for charity. He has had enough problems to overcome. Why not give just leave the man alone.
BE HAPPY
But wasn't he jailed for perjury, when he sued a newspaper for libel, after they'd published something about him which was in fact true? And he tried to get an honest man who was his friend to back him up by telling lies under oath?
What would a correct sentence be, then? He may have enough problems, but he might have fewer if he didn't cause them himself.
Old spotty-back is now well-known as a serial adulterer, but he got his wife to support him in claiming that he wasn't, and found a way of making megabucks out of libel cases.
Sadly the prostitute whom he was witnessed paying thousands of pounds to, he claims for nothing, died later.
...ah yes, here we are. What punishment should
I get, if
I try to take half-a-million by lies and fraud?
Charges
Lord Archer faced dishonesty charges arising from his successful 1987 libel action, in which he won £500,000 damages from the Daily Star over allegations that he slept with a prostitute.
He was accused of asking his former friend Mr Francis, 67, to provide him with a false alibi for a night relating to the libel case and of producing fake diary entries to back up his story.
Lord Archer was found guilty of two charges of perjury and two of perverting the course of justice.
The first charge was that he perverted the course of justice by asking Ted Francis to give him a false alibi.
The second guilty verdict was on a charge that he perverted the course of justice by using a fake diary in the libel trial.
He was found to have perjured himself in an affadavit to the High Court for the libel action.
He was also found to have perjured himself on oath during the libel trial.