{"id":26742,"date":"2013-02-08T18:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/vicky-pryce-chris-huhne-abortion-claim-175353371.html"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T17:53:53","slug":"vicky-pryce-in-new-chris-huhne-abortion-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/vicky-pryce-in-new-chris-huhne-abortion-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky Pryce In New Chris Huhne Abortion Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ex-wife of Chris Huhne has claimed he tried to force her to have a second abortion.<\/p>\n

Vicky Pryce, on trial for taking her husband’s speeding points in 2003, told Southwark Crown Court that the former Energy and Climate Change Secretary was a ‘bully’.<\/p>\n

She had already revealed in court that she had undergone a termination in 1990 after feeling pressure from Mr Huhne that was “very, very firm”.<\/p>\n

Under cross-examination, she said a few years later she fell pregnant again: “The same argument ensued, it was all booked and I was meant to go (for the procedure) that morning.<\/p>\n

“I woke up and knew how I had felt about the previous one and knew I couldn’t do it.”<\/p>\n

Their child was born and Pryce said Huhne had loved and raised the child normally.<\/p>\n

The prosecution argued that the incident proved that she could stand up for herself.<\/p>\n

Pryce described her husband as a highly ambitious politician.<\/p>\n

She said: “He was someone who wanted to achieve his aims and nothing would come in his way of doing so.”<\/p>\n

Her phone and email records were analysed in court and she was also asked about her defence of ‘marital coercion’.<\/p>\n

She said: “It is clear from my emails: if you are pressurised and bullied you should not be prosecuted.”<\/p>\n

Pryce has already told the jury that she found it ‘morally repugnant’ to accept the points but that her husband had forced her to sign the form.<\/p>\n

After protesting his innocence for months, Huhne dramatically changed his plea to guilty earlier this week and is likely to face a prison sentence.<\/p>\n

Pryce denies perverting the course of justice and her trial is expected to conclude next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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