Jury in Constance Briscoe trial discharged after failing to reach verdict

 
Staff|Agency31 January 2014
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Jurors in the trial of a part-time judge accused of lying to police as they investigated the Chris Huhne speeding points case have been discharged without reaching a verdict.

Constance Briscoe, 56, is standing trial at Southwark Crown court having denied three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice.

A jury had been deliberating on the fate of Briscoe, from Clapham, since Wednesday but have now been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on any of the counts.

Briscoe is accused of providing police with two inaccurate statements about her role as an intermediary between then Energy Secretary Chris Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce and reporters in revealing details of the speeding points saga.

She is also accused of producing an altered copy of a statement and then deliberately getting a document expert to view the wrong version of the statement.

She has been suspended since her arrest in October 2012.

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