He actually doesn't sound at all well, and maybe treatment instead of a year in prison would have bee better.
// he was "angry and intoxicated" when he falsely claimed to have witnessed the Plebgate row. Constable Keith Wallis, 53, had been drinking heavily when he sent an email to his MP. //
// he told police after being arrested at his home in December 2012: "I knew I should have thrown myself under a train yesterday." //
// ...after sending the email events "got completely out of hand" and he did not have the mental capacity to come clean //
// The officer was disconsolate and apologetic during two police interviews. "I 100% convinced myself I was there. I visualised myself standing there," he told the interviewing officers.
The court heard that Wallis had been on restricted duties due to a degenerative medical condition before the Plebgate incident.
His lawyer, Gibbs, pleaded with the court to spare him jail.
"To speak with him now is not really like speaking to an adult at all. It's like speaking to a son who wants above all things to be with his father, only his father is dead and has been dead for some time," he said.
Gibbs said that Wallis wanted the judge to send him to prison because he believed "everyone would be better off without him". //