Harriet Haman makes light of her upcoming court case

The Mail reports that:

"Harriet Harman tried to laugh off her impending prosecution for allegedly using a mobile while driving, with a quip about Thierry Henry’s notorious handball.

Labour’s deputy leader is facing charges of driving without due care and attention and driving while using a hand-held mobile. She strongly denies the charges.

But on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions on Friday night, she made a thinly veiled reference to her brush with the law when asked about the blatant handball by French captain Henry that put Ireland out of the World Cup.

Prompting laughter from the studio audience, Ms Harman said: ‘I think there was nothing hands-free about Thierry Henry’s football.’ Any Questions presenter Jonathan Dimbleby kept the joke going by saying: ‘I am now very concerned you have spoken in “sub judice” – I don’t know quite how to handle this.’

Earlier in the programme, Ms Harman was distinctly unamused when a member of the audience mischievously asked whether Ministers should be ‘routinely’ given hands-free car-phone kits.

She complained it was ‘unfair’ to ask her the question and insisted she could not talk about it."

So does Harriet Harman think that breaking the law is something to laugh at? I suppose when you are a Labour minister and therefore usually above the law then maybe it is.