'Vicky Pryce is human, not superwoman', says barrister Miss Pryce, 60, denies perverting the course of justice by taking 58-year-old Huhne's speeding points, and is using the defence of marital coercion, whereby wives can claim that they were deprived of their freedom to choose by their husbands. Mr Knowles added: "To portray Vicky Pryce as some bloodless, emotionless career woman who never put a foot wrong, who never did things that she didn't want to do, is just so far off the mark that it ought to be dismissed out of hand. People are more complex and they have frailties, as she does too. The barrister said Huhne had a brilliant intellect but was "certainly not" emotionally intelligent and regarded Miss Pryce as his inferior. "People who regard others as their inferiors tend to expect their inferiors to do what they want them to do, and the fact that that was the dynamic in the marriage was of real and telling significance," he said. Concluding his closing speech to the jury of eight women and four men, Mr Knowles said: "Chris Huhne may once have been a politician. People voted for him. She needs your votes now, all 12 of them, and those are 12 votes I ask for on her behalf because she is not guilty.