MRS PRIME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96B01172R000300030020-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/08/16 : CIA-RDP96B01172R000300030020-5
Mrs PRIME
'By ALAN COPPS
Continued from, Page Oue '.
solicitor, doctor and from her-
and 'all; said she
should thand :'over : , -the
evidence.
She inforu}edd the police first
of .what. she had found. and
secondly of ,,her .husband's
confession. ,.
She-said: "?.I took legal -advice
and I had a choice. I didn't
have to do it. But morally 1
'had to go . to tie" authorities
and tell them because I, could
not live .as a 'Christian with
that on my conscience and I
.believe the end I have
done .favour, and-hope-
fully, the 'cousltry.'
Mr George Ca iian-Q C (defend-
ing) asked '.3t~s ;Prime -taw
is
her ,husband had
-the, fact that 'she had pro:
vided the pros bion with;ifs
-evidence.
He , hes, 'rtalC?en it 'incredibly.
.well. . ? He `ins " become a '
cibanged me man .I-
alwsays . lbougdt ' Was always
ttoderiieaiit: .
,.'He his lost allhis :buses:asst
is: now a new mesa. Beo use of
~e terrible .buttdett lje l se
saes
or so intaW yes"':,
inc edibly uarhappy wigs
a jrtured sonahty:" ? i
her husband
M,rs` `Pa4 Z'
,wits-l new able --ta " relik+e ,to
people" iod had: made a -Rape
f'iieotlan p ism. - ' ? t , .; s'
`, `; If :believe ?.-for ;'the first time '
Geoffrey, .Psame has found
the goal :in 'his life that he
was' hiways ? "Necking," she
said. " . ;
Mrs * Prime-,. ' who., was later
praised: .by :the Lord Chief
Justice as ' -II.":woman of
great character, sympathy
end. hum pity,," d her hus-'
band .had treated her and
`her, threes ~ with the
utmost respect.'
Ske did not "his did
it while living 'his "triple
He had been a m:vellous
father to'the boys.
" He. has worked Ivery -b-and and
Wand brought me to a standard
of living I would never have
had without h u." .
Before calling Mrs Prime, as a
'character- -witness, :Mr
Carman said she:had received
approaches from the national
Press offering "enormous
suaps :4f money."
But 'she took. the view, as a
practising' Christian, :that 'it
would be immoral to make 'a
profit out 'of' her' husband's
--treachery. ,..
o?She expressly as4ed me to a.:. .
`that after slte. had gives evi-
dence she would -very grate-
, .ful if the Press :would ieove
her 'and her' family alone,"
he said.
After :giviz* her evidence
Mrs Prisne. returned to her seat
at the side of the court and
listened as ' the ' Lond Chief
Jwstiee sentenced her husband.
Then, 'seconds after be had
been led away, to the cells, she
'collapsed in tears and 'was
helped out of the court by a
policewoman.
Some . ? time later,' loo d p g
calm and, composed she left t the
Old. Bailey . by` a side' enhance
and was escorted to.a? taxi by
police;
With her was'Fsther Adrian,
the parish~'prip9t. r heir aocal
church, ? o : ..liaBd" stened to
the 'tral..from. polio
gallery,. and anorther . *man
friend. '
Later it'ry'vas l hrired that she
had had ? if l.5iainute meting
with her husband to the tells.
Approved For Release 2005/08/16 : CIA-RDP96B01172R000300030020-5