Editing Christine Keeler (section)

=== Trials ===
[[File:Christine Keeler op weg naar het gerechtsgebouw, Bestanddeelnr 915-5221.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Keeler going to court in September 1963]]

On 18 April 1963, Keeler was attacked at a friend's home. She accused Gordon, who was arrested and charged. At his trial, which began on 5 June, he maintained that his innocence would be established by two witnesses who, the police told the court, could not be found. On 7 June, principally on the evidence of Keeler, Gordon was found guilty and sentenced to three years imprisonment.{{Sfn|Irving|Hall|Wallington|1963|p=148}} By this time, Ward was facing trial on vice charges, and Keeler was again a main prosecution witness.{{Sfn|Irving|Hall|Wallington|1963|pp=193–94}}

Ward's trial, which ran 22–31 July 1963, has been characterised as "an act of political revenge" for the embarrassment caused to the government. He was accused of living off immoral earnings earned through Keeler and [[Mandy Rice-Davies]] based on the small contributions to household expenses or loan repayments the two had made to Ward while living with him. Ward's professional earnings as an osteopath were a substantial £5,500 a year (£{{Inflation|UK|5500|1962|r=-2|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation-year|UK}}) at the time these small payments were made.{{Sfn|Robertson|2013|pp=80–81}} After a hostile summing-up from the trial judge, Ward was convicted, but took an overdose of barbiturates and died before the jury returned its verdict and sentence could be passed.{{Sfn|Knightley|Kennedy|1987|pp=243–47}} In the closing days of Ward's trial, Gordon's assault conviction was overturned by the [[Court of Appeal (England and Wales)|Court of Appeal]] when his missing witnesses were found and testified that the evidence given by Keeler was substantially false.{{Sfn|Robertson|2013|pp=92–95, 101}} In December 1963, Keeler pleaded guilty to charges of [[perjury]] before [[Sir Anthony Hawke]], the [[Recorder of London]], and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, serving six months in prison.{{Sfn|Knightley|Kennedy|1987|p=252}} Her cellmate while in prison was Elizabeth Crowley, the wife of East End bank robber William Crowley, the maternal grandparents of [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] MP [[Wes Streeting]].{{cn|date=April 2025}}