Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir was already facing charges of causing bodily harm and obstruction of justice after falsely claiming Mr Hurndall was armed.
Mr. Huhne's former wife, Vicky Pryce, a prominent Greek-born economist who was joint head of the Government Economic Service until 2010, may go to prison, too, if a verdict expected this week finds her guilty of perverting the course of justice by falsely certifying that she, and not her husband, was the driver who had been speeding.
In June, to counter Starr's critics, the "Weekly Standard" published an editorial about U.S. v. Battalino, a 1998 federal-court case which found that a psychiatrist named Barbara Battalino obstructed justice by falsely denying her sexual affair with one of her patients.
The second charge alleges that the father of three "did a series of acts which had a tendency to pervert the course of public justice" by falsely alleging in oral and written statements that he had been the victim of an unprovoked physical assault.
The 28-year-old is also accused of stealing her car and perverting the course of justice by falsely implicating someone else in the murder.
In another case, Justice Anthony Kennedy falsely claimed that DNA analysis can be used to identify individual suspects in criminal cases with perfect accuracy.
Bringing rape charges is generally not a fun and effective way either to seek revenge or justice, and falsely reporting a crime is itself a crime, something the police do not generally look kindly upon.
Meanwhile, the fight for justice for miners falsely convicted of wrongdoing by a politically motivated police force during the 1984/85 miners' strike goes on.
It drew the conclusion also that she had obstructed the administration of justice by stating falsely that she was free from bias and that her verdict would be based only upon the evidence as introduced, and the law as given by the court.
Here he wrote the Hound of the Baskervilles and a patriot defence of Britain's Boer war; resurrected Sherlock Holmes, having previously thrown him off the Reichenbach Falls; campaigned for justice for the falsely accused solicitor George Edalji, and attempted to learn the banjo.
