A woman scorned

For those of us who dislike the Environment Secretary Chris Huhne, and we are many, his legal travails have been an amusing distraction. The story, en bref, is that Mr Huhne is alleged to have persuaded his then wife, the economist Vicky Price, to take on his behalf speeding points which were to accrue to his driving licence.

The story would almost certainly never have come out had Mr Huhne not left Ms Price for another woman.

An incredible amount of time has been spent by Essex Police on this case and we now read that they obtained a warrant, entered Ms Price's house, woke her sleeping son and took away his mobile 'phone for evidence.

I am now wondering whether this Aristotelian story of hubris and nemesis, the powerful man losing everything at the hands of the scorned woman, hasn't gone too far. The police will not even bother to investigate if you have been burgled or mugged and yet this, when all is said and done, is about a wife taking points on her licence for her husband - a crime, yes, but one which must surely be fairly common and which has caused little damage to the public good.

Amusing, though.