Huhne ‘getting on well with fellow inmates and wardens’

Carina Trimingham said claims Huhne was ridiculed on his first day in Wandsworth prison and had asked to be moved to a wing for vulnerable prisoners were “complete and utter nonsense”.

Ms Trimingham, who visited the 58-year-old this morning, said: “He is getting on well both with inmates and officers and he is absolutely fine and in good spirits.”

Former Cabinet minister Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were both jailed for eight months on Monday for perverting the course of justice when she took speeding points for him a decade ago.

Yesterday, it was reported Huhne was mocked on his first day in jail when a warder called him to breakfast shouting “Order! Order!” over a tannoy, and had been moved to a wing for vulnerable prisoners because other convicts humiliated and bullied him.

Ms Trimingham, 46, said: “It’s complete and utter nonsense, there’s not a grain of truth in it.”

She said when she had spoken to the former Cabinet minister about the rumours, he had said: “I can’t believe it, nothing could be further from the truth.”

Ms Trimingham – for whom Huhne left Pryce in June 2010, ending their 26-year marriage –said he was occupying his time by reading a lot, mainly novels.

“He is getting on well both with inmates and officers and he is absolutely fine and in good spirits,” she added.

Following the setencing on Monday, it emerged yesterday that Conservative MP David Burrowes has written to Attorney General Dominic Grieve asking him to refer the sentences to the Court of Appeal, on the grounds that both eight-month terms were too lenient.