Monica Coghlan class and by the prostitution laws which label and condemn women." Monica Coghlan Monica Coghlan (3 April 1951 – 27 April 2001) was an English prostitute at the centre of a scandal that involved British Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer in 1987. Although he won a libel case against the "Daily Star" newspaper, which had alleged that he had sex with her, it was later established, in legal proceedings in 2001, that he had perjured himself in the trial. Archer was jailed for this in July 2001. Coghlan died in a car crash shortly before the second trial and Archer's subsequent
The Archer (Lepcke) planned re-construction on Theatre Square of the Freedom Monument of Plac Wolności, however the project never took shape, and "The Archer" stayed where one can admire it. Further preservation works happened in 1987 and 1990, to clean from corrosion the figure and the arrow. The Archer, over time, gained more and more sympathy from the inhabitants of Bydgoszcz, visitors and tourists. On April 19, 2013, to celebrate the 667th anniversary of the city charter, a new statue, the "Archer Nova" was unveiled, referring to Archer's original figure: it stands on a sphere, with its head slightly inclined, eyes closed, athletic