[7] A room was named after her in the Newcastle University Students' Union building, which was later renamed after her conviction.
Her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, denies these claims and sued her daughter and her publishers Hodder & Stoughton for libel.
[14] The case was concluded in Briscoe's favour, when a jury in the High Court unanimously accepted her contention that her allegations were substantially true.
[16] Police have confirmed she also faces criminal investigation in relation to the evidence supporting the civil judgment in her favour.
[18] On 6 October 2012, Briscoe was arrested in Clapham and subsequently bailed pending further enquiries, as a result of a police investigation.
[20][21][22] Prosecutor Andrew Edis told the jury that Briscoe and Pryce had "started it together by approaching a man called Andrew Alderson (a journalist working for the Mail on Sunday)", falsely claiming that one of Huhne's aides, Jo White, took points for him in 2003.
According to Edis, Briscoe was a neighbour and friend of Pryce and that the "two of them appear to have cooked up a plan" to bring about Huhne's downfall.
[24] Briscoe received an early release from prison in November 2014, before she had served half her sentence.