Jeffrey Archer of Archer's character at the end of each performance. The perjury trial began on 30 May 2001, a month after Monica Coghlan's death in a road traffic accident. Ted Francis claimed that Archer had asked him to provide a false alibi for the night Archer was alleged to have been with Monica Coghlan. Angela Peppiatt, Archer's former personal assistant, also claimed Archer had fabricated an alibi in the 1987 trial. Peppiatt had kept a diary of Archer's movements, which contradicted evidence given during the 1987 trial. Andrina Colquhoun, Archer's former mistress, confirmed that they had been having an affair in
Jeffrey (name) Jeffrey (name) Jeffrey is a common English given name and, a variant form of the name Geoffrey (itself from a Middle French variant of Godfrey, Gottfried). It is most commonly spelled as "Jeffrey". It has been argued that the common derivation of Middle French "Geoffrey, Jeffery" from "Godfrey" is mistaken, and that the names reflect two separate first Germanic elements "god" vs. "gaut", which became conflated in Old High German by the end of the early medieval period. The three-syllable alternative spelling "Jeffery" (pronounced "jef-fer-ree") is sometimes used as a variant given name. Outside of North America, "Geoffrey" is more