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[00:01.16]BBC News with Marion Marshall.
[00:03.65]The former British cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce have been sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
[00:11.95]Ten years ago Ms Pryce accepted a speeding penalty on behalf of her husband so he could avoid a driving ban.
[00:18.07]Mr Huhne stepped down as energy secretary last year after the allegations emerged following the breakdown of their marriage.
[00:24.53]Rob Watson reports.
[00:26.12]It’s been dubbed a case of revenge that spectacularly backfired.
[00:31.53]Furious two years ago that her husband had decided to leave her for another woman Vicky Pryce wanted revenge.
[00:38.60]She executed it by revealing she had once taken the penalty points for a minor speeding offence when in fact her then husband had been driving.
[00:47.07]Chris Huhne’s political career is now in ruins
[00:50.38]and Vicky Pryce’s character has been picked apart by newspapers endlessly fascinated by a drama driven by powerful emotions and family breakup.
[01:00.95]The Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has described the death of an alleged rapist in prison as a major security lapse.
[01:08.56]Ram Singh was the driver of a bus on which a 23-year-old student was brutally attacked last December.