Novelist Briefly Freed for His Mother’s Funeral
From Times Wire Reports
Imprisoned novelist and disgraced politician Jeffrey Archer was freed to attend his mother’s funeral two days after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Archer, a millionaire best-selling author and former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, was sentenced to four years after his conviction for lying when he successfully sued a newspaper that reported he hired a prostitute.
Lola Hayne, 87, died July 12 while the judge was summing up the evidence in her son’s six-week trial.
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