| LONDON - Lord Jeffery Archer was yesterday disgraced at his Belmarsh Prison residence after a jury of his peers found him guilty of perverting the course of inmate justice. The former deputy chairman of the Tory party stared straight ahead as he was convicted of four of the five counts he faced at the Old TV Room at Belmarsh.
"These charges represent as serious as an offence of perjury as I have had experience of and have been able to find in the books," said Mr Bigg, who's thick with the warden at Belmarsh, delivering his sentence to a filled TV Room last night. The disgraced former MP was ordered to pay twenty roll-your-own cigarettes costs. Lawyer for Lord Archer, Baz Finch said he would appeal against the verdict. Lord Archer had denied all the charges brought against him in relation to his libel action against fellow inmate Daley Starr two weeks ago. He was then awarded thirty roll-your-own cigarettes and a near-new copy of Fiesta after the inmate claimed Archer had paid Bubba Jones (another inmate) for a hand-job in the laundry. Lord Archer was charged after his room-mate, Ted Francis, claimed he provided a false alibi for the novelist; putting him in the billiards room at the time of the alleged wrist-off. Francis was subsequently charged with perverting the course of inmate-justice, but was found not guilty at the end of the seven-hour trial. Mr Francis said he was "enormously relieved" at the verdict.  Lord Archer - Guilty. |
| Archer Found Guilty For Second Time |
Wednesday, 01 August 2001 12:00
