Sentencing him for 12 months at Lewes Crown Court yesterday, Judge Guy Anthony said: ‘I doubt a drink-drive conviction would have led to this but any conviction of perverting the course of justice is serious.’ Quoting a line from Sir Walter Scott’s poem Marmion, he added: ‘Oh, What a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.’ A long walk home: Bridgeman walked for three hours back to his oasthouse in East Sussex .
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