Jury in Vicky Pryce trial retire to consider verdict Explaining how the jurors should decide whether or not Miss Pryce is guilty, he said: "Her will must have been overborne in the sense that she was impelled to commit the offence because she truly believed that she had no real choice but to do so. It is not, however, for the defence to prove that Mr Huhne coerced her, rather it is for the prosecution to to prove that he did not do so. Miss Pryce, a mother of five grown-up children from Clapham, south London, told the court that her former husband gave her no option but to take the speeding points. She said she came downstairs one day to find Huhne standing with a pen and the form, which had already been filled in with her name, and insisting that she sign it there and then. Describing how she finally gave in, Miss Pryce told the jury: "It looked like a complete fait accompli for me and for him. The speeding points episode was not made public until after the couple's marriage broke down in June 2010, when Huhne's long-standing affair with Carina Trimingham, his bisexual press adviser, was exposed by a newspaper. Miss Pryce said she felt "fragile and depressed" after her husband left her for Miss Trimingham. In March 2011 she told Isabel Oakeshott, political editor of The Sunday Times, that Huhne had forced her to accept his speeding points eight years earlier, and the paper broke the story two months later. Miss Pryce's barrister, Julian Knowles QC, yesterday rejected suggestions by the prosecution that she was one of Britain's most "powerful, intelligent and trusted" women. He told the jury: "She is human, not superwoman, not superhuman - they're for comic books. In real life, she is human and she has all the human emotions and frailties that we all have.