In 2011, the british Sally Challen sentenced to 22 years in prison for murdering his 61-year-old man, Richard Challen, with a hammer.
But now, after serving eight years, Sally Challen Thursday won a historic appeal by a new hearing.
It writes among other Independent and Telegraph.
As the explanation of its action has the 65-year-old woman all the time insisted that it happened after she in 40 years along with Richard Challen had felt controlled and humiliated.
In the light of new evidence from a psychiatrist, which found that Sally Challen, at the time part of two different mental diseases, assessed the judges of the british court Thursday that the conviction must be reversed.
Sally Challens, son, David Challen, outside federal court where his mother Thursday won a historic appeal. Her family have backed her up and has since the judgment in 2011, called for, to the story of what led Sally Challen to kill her husband with a hammer, must be told. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Why should she now, through a new trial.
According to the Independent broke the 65-year-old briton out in tears as the decision was read.
When the matter was before the court in 2011, admitted Sally Challen to have killed her husband, but refused guilty of murder. Her sentence of 22 years imprisonment was subsequently reduced to four years.
In 2015 was ’tvangskontrol’ added to the british law as a form of violence in the home. It was therefore not, as Sally Challen in the first place got its judgment of 22 years for the murder, and then sounded the assessment at sentencing that the act was done by a jealous woman because of suspicions of infidelity.
But with the new evidence, which suggests that Sally Challen part of two different mental illnesses and the new legislation on tvangskontrol, lawyers therefore taken up the matter again. According to the psychiatrist was her illness suppressed as a result of the tvangskontrol, she was subjected to by her husband.
This was supported several times in the police interrogation of Sally Challen in 2011, where she for example told me that she as a new mother not getting any help from her husband.
According to her lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, provides the case is now hope in ‘many more cases’, where women have murdered their partner after years of abuse.
