And shortly before delivering the sentence, Sir Christopher Pitchers said that the court believed the police were wrong to raid the former Health Minister’s home, arrest him and keep him in custody.

In an earlier hearing, Mr Syvret had rejected community service as a sentence for contempt of court when it had been offered to him by Assistant Magistrate Bridget Shaw, and she had then sentenced him to ten weeks in prison.

Yesterday, however, when the Commissioner said that the Royal Court was offering it to him again as a direct alternative to prison, Mr Syvret said that he would accept it.

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