Article: Aitken faces jail as sword of truth cuts deep in court.(News)

Former Conservative Cabinet high-flier Jonathan Aitken could face jail after pleading guilty to committing perjury in the High Court.

He admitted the offence at the Old Bailey along with a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The charges followed Aitken's failed libel action against the Guardian newspaper and Granada Television in June 1997.

Aitken (56), denied two further charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and doing acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice relating to statements submitted to ...

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