LESS THAN A POUND " WARD IS DEAD, " PLEADED BARRISTER JEREMY 
HUTCHINSON LAST WEEK . " PROFUMO IS DISGRACED . AND NOW 
I KNOW YOUR LORDSHIP WILL RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO TAKE WHAT 
I MIGHT CALL SOCIETY'S POUND OF FLESH . " IT WAS 
NO ANTONIO IN THE PRISONER'S DOCK AT THE OLD BAILEY, BUT 
COOL, GREEN-SUITED CHRISTINE KEELER (130 LBS.), AND THE QUALITY OF MERCY 
WAS NOT STRAINED . NOTING THAT SHE HAD BEEN " UNDER 
PRESSURE, UNDER FEAR AND UNDER DOMINATION, " JUDGE SIR ANTHONY HAWKE 
SENTENCED CHRISTINE TO NINE MONTHS IN JAIL FOR PERJURY AND CONSPIRACY 
TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE (MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SENTENCE FOR PERJURY ALONE : SEVEN 
YEARS) . WITH HER ROOMMATE, PAULA HAMILTON MARSHALL, AND THEIR HOUSEKEEPER, 
DARKHAIRED OLIVE BROOKER, DEFENDANT KEELER HAD PLEADED GUILTY TO FRAMING JAMAICAN 
JAZZ SINGER ALOYSIUS ( " LUCKY " ) GORDON, A JILTED 
LOVER OF CHRISTINE'S ; HE WAS FIRST CONVICTED, ON HER OWN 
SOBER TESTIMONY, OF BEATING HER AND LATER RELEASED ON THE BASIS 
OF HER DRUNKEN TAPE-RECORDED CONFESSION THAT SHE HAD LIED . THUS, 
AS SHE WAS LED FROM THE HALF-EMPTY COURTROOM WITH TEARS STARTING 
FROM HER EYES, ENDED WHAT DEFENSE COUNSEL HUTCHINSON PROBABLY PREMATURELY TERMED 
" THE LAST CHAPTER IN THIS LONG SAGA THAT HAS BEEN 
CALLED THE KEELER AFFAIR . / AFTER SHE HAS SERVED HER 
SENTENCE, CHRISTINE WILL PRESUMABLY RETURN TO THE $39,000 GEORGIAN HOUSE SHE 
BOUGHT RECENTLY FROM HER JOURNALISTIC EARNINGS . THEN, SAID SHE, " 
ALL I WANT IS FOR EVERYONE TO LET ME BE A 
NORMAL GIRL AGAIN . / 