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Novelist Jeffrey Archer makes court appearance on perjury |
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October 4, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Jeffrey Archer, the novelist and disgraced politician, appeared in court Tuesday on charges of perjury in connection with a 1987 libel case. Lord Archer did not enter a plea, and spoke only to confirm his name address during a brief appearance at Bow Street Magistrates Court in central London. Archer, 60, who is free on bail, was ordered to return to court on Nov. 14. He faces two charges of perjury, two charges of perverting the course of justice and one of using a false statement. In 1987, Archer won a lawsuit against the Daily Star newspaper, which accused him of hiring a prostitute. Last year, Archer acknowledged that he had asked his friend Ted Francis to lie in the libel case and say they had dinner together on a particular night. Archer was forced to resign as the Conservative Party candidate for mayor of London after the story broke last year. He said Francis' statement turned out to have no bearing on the libel case. Francis, charged with a single count of perverting the course of justice, also appeared in court. They two men did not acknowledge each other. Archer is currently starring in a play he wrote, "The Accused," in which he plays a doctor accused of murdering his wife. |