Bruce Hyman a falling star (or should that be fallen star?).I don't know how my legal eagle eyes missed this little gem, but the usually sozzled Charon QC on some strange wine he calls Rioja, which he drinks for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner, when I only drink cheapo Tesco wino, did manage to spot it through bleary eyes. Hat-Tip to the chappie. (I must say that this second triple G&T is beginning to get to me).
What strikes me, is that this smart-arsed barrister expected to get away with a crime that only a lawyer would think of. Given that his opponent was legally inexperienced and representing himself, it would take some stretch of the imagination to believe that he had dreamed it up.
It is not just the callous desire to win the case. He was prepared to see an innocent man go to jail for perverting the course of justice. Given that the likes of Aitken and Archer went to jail. It would be more fitting if this bastard received a custodial sentence. I suspect the funny hand shakes will come out and spare him the ultimate humiliation.
There again, they are short of jailhouselawyers inside so perhaps the judge will do the right thing in this case?
