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Jurors in the trial of the barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe at Southwark crown court have been discharged after failing to reach verdicts on three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice in connection with the investigation into Chris Huhne's speeding points swapping. The jury in the trial of barrister and part-time judge Constance Briscoe, accused of lying to police over the Chris Huhne speeding points case, has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict.
Briscoe, a 56-year-old barrister, from Clapham, south-west London, had denied three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice. She will face a retrial, Southwark Crown Court was told.
The jury of six women and five men had been deliberating since Wednesday but were discharged after failing to reach verdicts on any counts. Briscoe, 56, a crown court recorder, denies three counts of intending to pervert the course of justice.
Briscoe was accused of providing police with two inaccurate statements about her role as an intermediary between the then energy secretary Chris Huhne's estranged wife Vicky Pryce and reporters in revealing details of the speeding points saga. The jury, which had been reduced to eleven after one was discharged earlier for personal reasons, had been deliberating for 13 hours but were unable to reach a majority verdict of 10-1 on any of the three counts.
She was 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. Briscoe, a criminal lawyer who was arrested in October 2012, is accused of providing police with two inaccurate statements in the case against the then energy secretary Huhne and his ex-wife, the economist Vicky Pryce.
She has been suspended since her arrest in October 2012. She is also accused of producing an altered copy of a statement and then deliberately submitting a different version of that statement to a document expert.
A retrial is expected. More details soon.
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