POLICE have laid perjury charges against former judge Marcus Einfeld over alleged lying to beat a speeding offence and will soon charge the woman who tried to defend him.
In a chain of dramatic developments today, Einfeld was charged after being called to a meeting by the Police Strike Force Chanter.
Hours later, Angela Liati, the former mistress of car baron Peter Warren who came forward to support the defence put forward by Mr Einfeld, arrived at Sydney police station to say that she too was about to be charged.
Ms Liati said outside the station that she was not sorry she had come forward for Mr Einfeld and that she would defend any charges in court.
Strike Force Chanter has been investigating 67-year-old Einfeld, of Woolahra, over a number of speeding offences and evidence and excuses he gave to beat being convicted.
The Daily Telegraph first revealed last year that in one of these speeding offences, Einfeld claimed to a Sydney court his car had actually been driven by a female professor at the time, not himself.
Subsequently, The Daily Telegraph exposed that the professor in question had in fact died three years prior to when the offence was committed.
At a press conference today, police announced that charges of perjury and perverting the course of justice have been laid by detectives investigating claims Einfeld lied to avoid a speeding fine. Without naming Einfeld, NSW Police today said a 67-year-old Woollahra man had been arrested by detectives attached to Strike Force Chanter.
Detective Superintendent Colin Dyson said the man had since been charged with a total of 13 offences, namely three counts of perjury, six counts of perverting the course of justice, two of making a false instrument and a further two of using a false instrument.
The arrest arose today because the investigation had reached a point where we felt the evidence was sufficient that ..
. prosecution should be initiated, Supt Dyson told reporters.
Inquiries are continuing into this investigation and evidence is still being collected.
Ms Liati told The Daily Telegraph last month she was under intense police pressure and that officers had told her they believed she was lying about being in the former judge's speeding car.
I am being charged today, I will go to court and tell them what I know,'' she said outside the police station today.
Ms Liati came forward and made a statement claiming she was in Mr Enfield's speeding car with a Professor Brennan after seeing stories about the drama in the media.
Who saw The Chaser last night then? Obviously someone at NSW police.
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