Vicky Pryce could not have been reduced to such a 'quivering jelly' Mr Edis went on: "The position is this. One of the most powerful, intelligent and trusted women in the country wishes you to think that when she took some points for her husband in 2003 she had no real choice in doing so. The prosecution say that we can prove that Miss Pryce took the points because she chose to do so. She had a real choice and she exercised it. Miss Pryce's trial has heard that her 26-year marriage to Huhne ended in 2010 when a newspaper exposed the former cabinet minister's long-running affair with Carina Trimingham, a bisexual aide. The allegations about the speeding points only became public the following year after the economist told a journalist from the Sunday Times about them. Miss Pryce, from Clapham, south London, denies perverting the course of justice, 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 Edis said today that by pinning sole blame for the speeding points deception on her ex-husband, Miss Pryce was seeking to damage Huhne while evading responsibility herself. "She can get revenge and it's a free ride," he told the court. Huhne, the former energy secretary and Liberal Democrat MP, has already pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and is facing jail.