Brisco Gets 16 Months

[scooping]

She'll have fun...

[anneasquith]

serve 8 maybe ?

[Jomlett]

Mr Justice Baker sentenced Briscoe, 56, on three counts of perverting the course of justice for four, five and seven months each, to be served concurrently.

[dannyk13]

So she will do seven months less 50% = 3 1/2 months.

[Gromit]

As a side note, on Wednesday a policewoman was sacked. She had release false information to the press intending to pervert the course of justice by supporting false statements about the Andrew Mitchell incident. The police refuse to name the journalists and newspapers involved.

Constance Briscoe did the same thing but has gone to prison for it. Rightly so I may add.

[ladybirder]

Concurrently Anne, not consecutively.

[Nibble]

^ Out in 14 weeks then, as the sentences are to be served concurrently, and the longest term is 7 months.

Good old British Justice, even with a bent brief as a defendant, they'll still get off, (IMHO)!

[Jomlett]

Briscoe almost appeared to smile as she heard her fate. "I'm very grateful, my Lord," she said to the judge.

[DrFilth]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/02/constance-briscoe-jailed-perverting-course-justice

[jno]

about the same as Clifford is going to get. I think that might be a bit harsh, considering she's made herself unemployable (or are convicts allowed back to the bar?)

[Jomlett]

Correction...Mr Justice Baker sentenced Briscoe to four, five and seven months on each of three counts of perverting the course of justice, to be served CONSECUTIVELY.

[Bazile]

//..(or are convicts allowed back to the bar?) //

Yes jno - the one you lean on

[shoota]

'I consider that the least sentence which can properly be passed upon you is one of 16 months imprisonment. That total will be reached by consecutive sentences of 4, 5 and 7 months custody respectively, upon counts 1, 2 and 3. You know that you will be released half way through that term, but will remain on licence for the full term and liable to recall if you were to commit any further offence or otherwise breach the conditions of your licence.'
- See more at: http://www.crimeline.info/case/r-v-constance-briscoe#sthash.wnuUxRi0.dpuf

[anotheoldgit]

/// The judge praised Briscoe for her previously successful career, saying she was "a role model for others". ///

/// "Blessed with intelligence, you did not get every advantage in life. You were the first person in your family to go to university. You had the privilege of being a crown court recorder and you have done all of this while raising your two much-loved children." ///

With that praise from the judge it is a wonder he did not direct the jury to return a not guilty verdict?

I wonder if she will have to face another trial over this?

/// She is now facing a criminal investigation into allegations that she fraudulently obtained medical documents from Southwark council to support her defence in a 2008 libel case. Scotland Yard said the matter was being investigated in the light of information received from the BBC. ///