Pryce: 'Huhne Forced Me To Have Abortion'

Chris Huhne's ex-wife has claimed the politician forced her to have an abortion in the 90s because it was "bad timing" to have a baby.

Vicky Pryce broke down in tears as she made the revelation during her evidence in her trial over allegations she took speeding points for the politician back in 2003.

She also told Southwark Crown Court that Huhne had nominated her as the driver without telling her and then pressured her to confirm this to police.

The Lib Dem wanted to avoid losing his licence because he was worried it would affect his chances of selection as a prospective parliamentary candidate, she said.

As the mother-of-five spoke about their 26-marriage, she revealed she had become pregnant unexpectedly in 1990 but had a termination.

Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott

Weeping, she told the court: "I got accidentally pregnant and obviously wanted to keep the baby because it was healthy. In fact, I quite like babies, that's why I have so many."

"He absolutely resisted it, saying it was bad timing, bad financially, bad for his career to be tied down again and despite my protestations, he got me to have an abortion, which I have regretted ever since."

Pryce, 60, had two sons and a daughter with Huhne in the 80s and 90s and has two daughters from her first marriage.

The new dramatic claim about their marriage came as she gave evidence in her defence at her trial for perversion of the course of justice.

She is accused of taking speeding penalty points for her then husband but denies the charge on the grounds of marital coercion.

Huhne, 58, has already pleaded guilty to lying to police about who was driving. He has resigned as an MP and faces jail.

Chris Huhne finally admitted this week that he was driving

Pryce said she "resisted" when the politician first asked her to take his penalty for driving too fast so that he could avoid prosecution and keep his licence.

"I had absolutely no wish to take on his points because I knew full well he was a very, very fast driver and very often ignored speed limits and had brought it on himself," she told the court.

She said they had argued for "a number of days" but then it "went quiet".

Earlier, Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott said Pryce had told her she was presented with a "fait accompli" by Huhne.

Giving evidence for the prosecution, she said: "My understanding was that they had had a row about it and she had confronted him and asked him why on earth she had received this letter.

"He had filled the form out, nominated her without any consultation about it and put her in an extremely difficult position. She was understandably very upset about it."

Chris Huhne's girlfriend Carina Trimingham

Pryce had been "very, very unhappy" at going along with his lie" and "felt that she had been put into an impossible situation by doing so", she continued.

"She was very clear that he had pressurised her into signing the form and the context of that was that he risked losing his licence at that point because he had already amassed so many penalty points and he very much needed to be able to drive for his job at that time."

Ms Oakeshott first met Pryce at the Lib Dem party conference in 2010, shortly after Huhne had left her for another woman. They met again for lunch in March 2011, where the economist first revealed the points swap.

"She mentioned to me towards the end of the meal that she had taken speeding points on behalf of her husband. She had been pressured to do that.

"Obviously that's a very serious allegation against a serving government minister."

Pryce had made the allegation "slightly under her breath" and did not go into details, but said it had happened in 2003, she told the court.

The pair later agreed the claims could run as part of an interview with Pryce, where they would be put to her as Westminster rumours, she said.

Ms Oakeshott added that it was Pryce's idea to record Huhne's phone calls to try and goad him into admitting his crime - recordings of which have now been played in court.

The economist was conscious of the possibility of being prosecuted, and they drafted an agreement to protect her ahead of publication.

Ms Oakeshott described her as a "fragile" woman whose emotions would "go up and down a lot", whose image of a businesswoman in heels and a suit was a sort of "armour".

"I was amazed throughout my dealings with her that she was constantly on the edge of tears. It took very, very little to tip her into a tearful condition," she said.

"This was a broken woman, her marriage had collapsed in the most dramatic and horrible of circumstances and she was clearly absolutely devastated over it, no doubt about that.

"I got the impression that despite how she had been treated by her husband she was still very much in love with him, and it was really a terrible time."

Ms Oakeshott added that if Pryce had been making the story up, it would have been "better than that" and not something that incriminated herself.

She described Huhne as "ferociously intelligent and ferociously ambitious" and a "very controversial figure" in Westminster.

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