Page 1 of 5 1234 ... LastLast
Results 1 to 16 of 67

Thread: Vicky Pryce guilty

  1. #1
    Admin (Ret'd)
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    18,481
    Thanks
    1,016
    Thanked
    3,208 times in 2,281 posts

    Vicky Pryce guilty

    After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury has convicted. Sentencing will be at a later date, but all the signs are Huhne and Pryce now face jail .... and all to avoid a driving ban, and some political embarrassment.

    What a pair of morons.

  2. #2
    jim
    jim is offline
    HEXUS.clueless jim's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2008
    Location
    Location: Location:
    Posts
    11,435
    Thanks
    612
    Thanked
    1,639 times in 1,304 posts
    • jim's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z
      • CPU:
      • i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz
      • Memory:
      • 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP
      • Storage:
      • 1TB Sandisk SSD
      • Graphics card(s):
      • ASUS GTX 970
      • PSU:
      • Corsair AX650
      • Case:
      • Silverstone Fortress FT03
      • Operating System:
      • 8.1 Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • Dell S2716DG
      • Internet:
      • 10 Mbps ADSL

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Stupid thing is, it's not even to avoid a driving ban. I mean, they actually got away with that.

    She's paid the price for being vindictive, on the basis of the prosecution's case. And for what it's worth, I struggle to sympathise - her defence was laughable.

  3. #3
    Headless Chicken Terbinator's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Posts
    7,642
    Thanks
    1,190
    Thanked
    719 times in 587 posts
    • Terbinator's system
      • Motherboard:
      • ASRock H61M
      • CPU:
      • Intel Xeon 1230-V3
      • Memory:
      • Geil Evo Corsa 2133/8GB
      • Storage:
      • M4 128GB, 2TB WD Red
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Gigabyte GTX Titan
      • PSU:
      • Corsair AX760i
      • Case:
      • Coolermaster 130
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 8.1 Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • Dell Ultrasharp U2711H
      • Internet:
      • Virgin Media 60Mb.

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Neither will actually get put down though, will they?
    Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
    CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
    TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

  4. #4
    jim
    jim is offline
    HEXUS.clueless jim's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2008
    Location
    Location: Location:
    Posts
    11,435
    Thanks
    612
    Thanked
    1,639 times in 1,304 posts
    • jim's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z
      • CPU:
      • i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz
      • Memory:
      • 8GB Corsair Vengeance LP
      • Storage:
      • 1TB Sandisk SSD
      • Graphics card(s):
      • ASUS GTX 970
      • PSU:
      • Corsair AX650
      • Case:
      • Silverstone Fortress FT03
      • Operating System:
      • 8.1 Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • Dell S2716DG
      • Internet:
      • 10 Mbps ADSL

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Neither will actually get put down though, will they?
    No, we've abolished the death penalty.

  5. Received thanks from:

    Hicks12 (08-03-2013),kalniel (07-03-2013),MaddAussie (07-03-2013),Steve (07-03-2013),Terbinator (07-03-2013),TheAnimus (07-03-2013)

  6. #5
    The late but legendary peterb - Onward and Upward peterb's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Looking down & checking on swearing
    Posts
    19,378
    Thanks
    2,892
    Thanked
    3,403 times in 2,693 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Neither will actually get put down though, will they?
    I think there is a very real chance they will. Perverting the course of justice is a serious offence and both have lost the opportunity of early guilty plea discounts.

    Jonathon Aitken was convicted of perjury and served seven months of a 15 month sentence, Jeffery Archer served 2 years after convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

    Both Pryce and Huhne have been warned about the seriousness of the offence, I suspect the best they can hope for is a suspended custodial sentence.
    (\__/)
    (='.'=)
    (")_(")

    Been helped or just 'Like' a post? Use the Thanks button!
    My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute

  7. #6
    Headless Chicken Terbinator's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Posts
    7,642
    Thanks
    1,190
    Thanked
    719 times in 587 posts
    • Terbinator's system
      • Motherboard:
      • ASRock H61M
      • CPU:
      • Intel Xeon 1230-V3
      • Memory:
      • Geil Evo Corsa 2133/8GB
      • Storage:
      • M4 128GB, 2TB WD Red
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Gigabyte GTX Titan
      • PSU:
      • Corsair AX760i
      • Case:
      • Coolermaster 130
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 8.1 Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • Dell Ultrasharp U2711H
      • Internet:
      • Virgin Media 60Mb.

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    No, we've abolished the death penalty.
    * sent
    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    I think there is a very real chance they will. Perverting the course of justice is a serious offence and both have lost the opportunity of early guilty plea discounts.

    Jonathon Aitken was convicted of perjury and served seven months of a 15 month sentence, Jeffery Archer served 2 years after convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

    Both Pryce and Huhne have been warned about the seriousness of the offence, I suspect the best they can hope for is a suspended custodial sentence.
    I'm really not one of those people, although history probably dictates i should be, but people who've been, or still are, in relative positions of power/wealth do appear to get off lightly. How long was it Elliot Morley(?) did of his sentence?
    Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
    CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
    TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

  8. #7
    The late but legendary peterb - Onward and Upward peterb's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Looking down & checking on swearing
    Posts
    19,378
    Thanks
    2,892
    Thanked
    3,403 times in 2,693 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    * sent

    I'm really not one of those people, although history probably dictates i should be, but people who've been, or still are, in relative positions of power/wealth do appear to get off lightly. How long was it Elliot Morley(?) did of his sentence?
    From wikipedia.. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Morley)

    Morley eventually pleaded guilty in the Crown Court at Southwark on 7 April 2011 before Mr Justice Saunders, who had presided over the other prosecutions in the Parliamentary expenses scandal. On 20 May 2011, Morley was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment on two counts of false accounting.[2][3] He served four months in prison – a quarter of the sentence – and was then released under the home detention curfew scheme.

    And having just re-read Saracens original post...


    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury has convicted. Sentencing will be at a later date, but all the signs are Huhne and Pryce now face jail .... and all to avoid a driving ban, and some political embarrassment.

    What a pair of morons.
    I would say not so much morons, but symptomatic of an arrogant attitude in thinking they were above the law. The scary thing is that they might have got away with it, had it not been for... er 'marital discord'.
    (\__/)
    (='.'=)
    (")_(")

    Been helped or just 'Like' a post? Use the Thanks button!
    My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute

  9. #8
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Oct 2009
    Posts
    269
    Thanks
    45
    Thanked
    30 times in 26 posts
    • cookie365's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus H87M Plus
      • CPU:
      • i3 4340
      • Memory:
      • 2x Kingston HyperX 4Gb
      • Storage:
      • 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 EVO + Seagate 1TB + WD Green 2TB
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Whatever comes with the i3
      • PSU:
      • bequiet StraightPower 600
      • Case:
      • Aquacool Dead Silence
      • Operating System:
      • W10
      • Monitor(s):
      • Rectangular
      • Internet:
      • Cable

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    That defence harks back to a time when it was difficult for women to gain economic independence from their husbands, when influential men could often ruin a woman's reputation if she dare to stand up to them. When women typically promised in their wedding vows to obey their husbands.

    It's an insult to those women that Pryce should have tried to run this defence.

  10. Received thanks from:

    mikerr (08-03-2013)

  11. #9
    Ghost of Hexus Present sammyc's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Posts
    3,248
    Thanks
    730
    Thanked
    471 times in 377 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Put 'em in the same cell

    Feel sorry for the family; she could have put family above spite & revenge, & chose not to, with every reasonably foreseeable chance that it would make a bad situation worse - could have salvaged something perhaps by being altruistic rather than both of them descending to the same level so publicly.

  12. #10
    Admin (Ret'd)
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    18,481
    Thanks
    1,016
    Thanked
    3,208 times in 2,281 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    ....

    Both Pryce and Huhne have been warned about the seriousness of the offence, I suspect the best they can hope for is a suspended custodial sentence.
    I would be astonished, staggered even, if they get suspended sentences for this, and personally, I'd regard it as an utter travesty. Given the nature of the judge's warnings, I think it's a very forlorn hope if they are hoping that. Huhne certainly should, IMHO, be sent down. And while I wasn't in court to hear the evidence, I find the "marital coercion" line Pryce tried to float very hard to swallow.

  13. #11
    Moosing about! CAT-THE-FIFTH's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Not here
    Posts
    31,619
    Thanks
    3,755
    Thanked
    5,059 times in 3,911 posts
    • CAT-THE-FIFTH's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Less E-PEEN
      • CPU:
      • Massive E-PEEN
      • Memory:
      • RGB E-PEEN
      • Storage:
      • Not in any order
      • Graphics card(s):
      • EVEN BIGGER E-PEEN
      • PSU:
      • OVERSIZED
      • Case:
      • UNDERSIZED
      • Operating System:
      • DOS 6.22
      • Monitor(s):
      • NOT USUALLY ON....WHEN I POST
      • Internet:
      • FUNCTIONAL

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    She paid a high Pryce.

  14. Received thanks from:

    melon (08-03-2013),Terbinator (08-03-2013)

  15. #12
    The late but legendary peterb - Onward and Upward peterb's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Looking down & checking on swearing
    Posts
    19,378
    Thanks
    2,892
    Thanked
    3,403 times in 2,693 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    She paid a high Pryce.
    Well HE certainly did!
    (\__/)
    (='.'=)
    (")_(")

    Been helped or just 'Like' a post? Use the Thanks button!
    My broadband speed - 750 Meganibbles/minute

  16. #13
    Senior Member kopite's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2006
    Location
    Liverpool
    Posts
    3,491
    Thanks
    80
    Thanked
    157 times in 126 posts
    • kopite's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z
      • CPU:
      • Intel Core i5 2500K
      • Memory:
      • 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz Corsair Memory Vengeance Black
      • Storage:
      • 128GB Crucial m4 for main drive. 3.5 TB of storage space over western Digital Drives
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition
      • PSU:
      • 750W ANTEC TRUEPOWER
      • Case:
      • Silverstone Fortress FT03
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 10
      • Monitor(s):
      • 1 x 27 inch dell Monitor 1 x 20 inch Dell monitor
      • Internet:
      • Virgin media 150MB

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    My thoughts on this.

    She has a very high power job dealing with powerful ppl every day yet she was scared by her husband who has always came accross as a bit of a wuss to me.

    She is supposed to be an intelligent woman yet thought that she would be able to leak it to the papers regarding the points and get away scott free?

  17. #14
    Account closed at user request
    Join Date
    Aug 2003
    Location
    Elephant watch camp
    Posts
    2,150
    Thanks
    56
    Thanked
    115 times in 103 posts
    • wasabi's system
      • Motherboard:
      • MSI B85M-G43
      • CPU:
      • i3-4130
      • Memory:
      • 8 gig DDR3 Crucial Rendition 1333 - cheap!
      • Storage:
      • 128 gig Agility 3, 240GB Corsair Force 3
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Zotac GTX 750Ti
      • PSU:
      • Silver Power SP-S460FL
      • Case:
      • Lian Li T60 testbanch
      • Operating System:
      • Win7 64bit
      • Monitor(s):
      • First F301GD Live
      • Internet:
      • Virgin cable 100 meg

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    I think she is worse than him. Points dodging scams are common, morally and legally wrong, but common. Being a vindictive git who uses the law as a power game is worse IMO.

  18. Received thanks from:

    Mblaster (09-03-2013)

  19. #15
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Posts
    1,474
    Thanks
    2
    Thanked
    140 times in 116 posts
    • BobF64's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Asus P8Z77-V Pro
      • CPU:
      • Intel Core i7-3770K
      • Memory:
      • 16GB Corsair XMS3 PC3-12800
      • Storage:
      • Multiple HDD and SSD drives
      • Graphics card(s):
      • ASUS DUAL-GTX1060-06G
      • PSU:
      • 750W Silverstone Strider Gold Evolution
      • Case:
      • Silverstone Fortress FT02
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 10 x64 Pro
      • Monitor(s):
      • HP ZR24w

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    At least they managed to have a jury with sense this time, the last lot made themselves sound utterly incompetent.

  20. #16
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Posts
    1,182
    Thanks
    133
    Thanked
    46 times in 45 posts

    Re: Vicky Pryce guilty

    Well she dropped them both in it anyway so as someone said 'Hell hath no fury'

Page 1 of 5 1234 ... LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •