Address Book Freezes Whilst launching

I am trying to consolidate my contacts by importing multiple duplicates contacts contained in various backup as Vcards and updating the same to have one complete contact database. However I noticed that one of the contacts repeats the mutiple contact information many times over and when I try to edit that particular contact the Addressbook freezes and I have to force quit.
Any subsequent attempt to open the address book leads to it freezing without displaying the contacts window page. I then have to force quit again without entering the application to continue my work.
Can someone tell me how to resolve this problem please. I am stuck at the moment.

Error Message Received from Console when I attempt to open Addressbook.
25/12/2013 22:05:57.217 Contacts[1108]: ImageIO: JPEG Corrupt JPEG data: 26 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
25/12/2013 22:05:57.217 Contacts[1108]: ImageIO: JPEG Bogus Huffman table definition
25/12/2013 22:05:57.217 Contacts[1108]: ImageIO: JPEG Corrupt JPEG data: 26 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
25/12/2013 22:05:57.217 Contacts[1108]: ImageIO: JPEG Bogus Huffman table definition
25/12/2013 22:05:34.710 spindump[1100]: Saved hang report for Contacts version 8.0 (1365) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Contacts_2013-12-25-220534_-MacBook-Pro.hang

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