21:31 EDT, 17 April 2021 A jury of 12 is expected to finally retire to consider its verdict in Melbourne's engrossing 'slave trial' next week after 10 long weeks. It was still summer when the husband-and-wife, accused of keeping an elderly slave, first faced the jury on February 10. The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will spend an uneasy weekend and could learn their fate as early as Tuesday. The husband and wife, whose home she was found at, are accused of intentionally possessing the woman as a slave between July 2007 and July 2015 Defence barristers for the pair finished their closing arguments on Friday, with Justice Andrew Tinney delivering his final 'charge' throughout the day.