BBC News with Marion Marshall.

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. Ten years ago Ms Pryce accepted a speeding penalty on behalf of her husband so he could avoid a driving ban. Mr Huhne stepped down as energy secretary last year after the allegations emerged following the breakdown of their marriage. Rob Watson reports.

It’s been dubbed a case of revenge that spectacularly backfired. Furious two years ago that her husband had decided to leave her for another woman Vicky Pryce wanted revenge. 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. Chris Huhne’s political career is now in ruins and Vicky Pryce’s character has been picked apart by newspapers endlessly fascinated by a drama driven by powerful emotions and family breakup.

The Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has described the death of an alleged rapist in prison as a major security lapse. Ram Singh was the driver of a bus on which a 23-year-old student was brutally attacked last December. From Delhi, here’s Andrew North.

Ram Singh was the main suspect in the case that’s still sending tremors through India. He’d been due back in court today with four other men accused of raping and murdering the physiotherapy student last December. But early this morning the 34-year-old was found dead in his cell in a Delhi jail. Prison authorities said he’d used thread from his sleeping mat to hang himself while his cellmates were asleep. But Mr Singh’s lawyer, V K Anand, says he doesn’t believe the government’s account. “That’s due to foul play one way or another”, he said. It’s a claim echoed by his parents, who’d seen him a few days ago.