Consider case afresh, Pryce retrial jury told 25 February 2013 Last updated at 11:56 The jury at the retrial of ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne's former wife Vicky Pryce has been told by the judge to listen to the case "afresh." Mr Justice Sweeney discharged the jury at Southwark Crown Court last week after it was unable to reach a verdict. The new jury must base its decision on evidence heard in court, he said. Ms Pryce, 60, denies perverting the course of justice on a charge relating to speeding points she took for Huhne, saying he had coerced her in 2003. Huhne has admitted the offence and is awaiting sentence. He resigned as the Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire after pleading guilty earlier this month. After the second jury of seven men and five women was sworn in, Mr Justice Sweeney gave them a written copy of their duties. He told the jurors their predecessor's failure to reach a verdict was "irrelevant." He said it was their task to "pool their common sense and experience of life" to reach a true verdict according to the evidence. The judge told them to put out of their minds anything they had learned of the first jury's failure to reach a verdict. He said: "You judge the case afresh... only on the evidence that unfolds before you. The other jury's disagreement is irrelevant in this case.