Huhne And Pryce Set For Prison Release Disgraced former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are both expected to be released from prison today - two months after they were first locked up. The divorced couple have spent eight weeks behind bars for perverting the course of justice a decade ago when Pryce took speeding points for her then husband. Huhne, 58, finally pleaded guilty to the offence earlier this year after months of staunch denials and several attempts to get the case thrown out. Pryce, 60, was convicted by a jury after a trial at Southwark Crown Court when her defence of marital coercion failed. Former energy secretary Huhne is currently in HMP Leyhill in Gloucestershire, while his economist ex-wife is at HMP East Sutton Park in Kent. Both will have to wear electronic tags - used to enforce either a timed curfew or a place of residence - on their release. For sentences under a year, an offender is automatically freed after serving half their sentence. In addition, offenders serving sentences of between three months and four years, with certain exceptions for violent and sexual offenders, may also be eligible for release on a home detention curfew. This allows an offender to leave prison up to 135 days before their automatic release date. Huhne's girlfrend Carina Trimingham was at the costs hearing (file pic) Both Huhne and Pryce are expected to return to their separate homes in London. The pair are still yet to hear how much they will have to pay for the cost of their prosecution. Last month a costs hearing heard the Crown Prosecution Service was seeking more than £100,000 from Huhne, but the former Lib Dem politician's legal team had offered just £25,000. Huhne repeatedly denied any wrongdoing after the allegations emerged in newspaper reports in 2011, protesting his innocence and trying to get the case dismissed. But when that failed, he pleaded guilty in February, on the first day of his trial, spelling the end of his once-promising career. Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the court: "All of this occurred because Mr Huhne decided to do everything he could to try and get away with what he had done and gave in only at the last minute when defeat was inevitable." But Huhne's barrister John Kelsey-Fry QC said it was "simply unjust and unreasonable" to expect Huhne to pay what he described as "every single possible penny that anybody could think of." The CPS is seeking a total of £48,695.56 from Pryce the court heard. During her trial, the court heard how she had embarked on a media campaign to "nail" her former husband after he left her in 2010 for PR adviser Carina Trimingham.