Who is Jeffrey Archer and what did he do?
He is an author and ex-MP Daily Star libel case In July 1987, the libel case over the allegation that Archer had had sex with Monica Coghlan came to court. The payment to Coghlan was explained as the action of a philanthropist rather than that of a guilty man. He won the case and was awarded £500,000 damages. Archer stated he would donate the money to charity. This case would ultimately result in Archer’s final exit from front-line politics some years later. There was astonishment at the description the judge (Mr Justice Caulfield) gave of Mrs Archer[10] in his jury instructions: “Remember Mary Archer in the witness-box. Your vision of her probably will never disappear. Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance? How would she appeal? Has she had a happy married life? Has she been able to enjoy, rather than endure, her husband Jeffrey?” The judge then went on to say of Jeffrey Archer, “Is he in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulate
