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| Chris Huhne speeding trial date set | Chris Huhne speeding trial date set |
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| Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are to stand trial next Monday over allegations she took speeding points for him so he could avoid prosecution. | |
| The Lib Dem MP, 58, pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice at Southwark Crown Court on Monday. | |
| His former wife, Vicky Pryce, has previously pleaded not guilty to the same offence. | His former wife, Vicky Pryce, has previously pleaded not guilty to the same offence. |
| They were charged last year in relation to the alleged offence in 2003. | |
| Mr Huhne resigned as energy and climate change secretary after he was charged, but remained as Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh. | |
| The BBC's Clive Coleman, at London's Southwark Crown Court, said the charge was formally put to Mr Huhne during Monday's hearing. | |
| "It was put to him that he and his then-wife Vicky Pryce, between 13 March 2003 and 25 May 2003, with intent to pervert the course of public justice, did an act, namely during the course of an investigation by Essex Police falsely inform the police that Vicky Pryce had driven the vehicle concerned enabling him, Chris Huhne, to avoid the penalty points," said our correspondent. | |
| When asked, Mr Huhne replied: "Not guilty". |