Poll: Should prisoners be released after serving just a quarter of their terms?
As former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife are released from prison, we ask if it's right that inmates should serve just a fraction of their sentences behind bars.
Former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife have both been freed from prison after serving around a quarter of their eight-month sentences for swapping speeding points.
Huhne, a former energy secretary and once-aspiring Liberal Democrat leader, left Leyhill Prison in Gloucestershire by the main entrance in the back seat of a silver Honda, making no attempt to avoid waiting media cameras.
His ex-wife, economist Vicky Pryce, earlier emerged from East Sutton Park Prison near Maidstone, Kent, via a back exit and left with her solicitor Robert Brown, pursued by press photographers who been camped outside the Category D open jail for women and young offenders.
The former couple were each handed eight-month prison sentences on March 11 for perverting the course of justice a decade ago when Pryce took speeding points for her then husband.
