Archer must tow prison lines for next six months

JEFFREY ARCHER must stay on his best behaviour for six months or be punished for breaching prison rules with his diary on life behind bars, it emerged last night.

The disgraced peer yesterday admitted breaching strict prison guidelines by identifying other inmates and their crimes in his book, A Prison Diary.

He accepted the breach at a disciplinary hearing with the governor of Lincoln Prison, hours after the text hit the bookshelves.