The implication of this is that you could scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else -- using normal electrical or sound signals -- where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.

CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

Ms Pryce has already told the court she faced "threats by implication" to their marriage in 2003 if she did not sign the speeding form.

BBC: Vicky Pryce's brother 'knew about speeding coercion'