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28 Feb 2019

Murder conviction for woman who killed husband overturned

Culture Correspondent

A woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack has won a landmark appeal against her murder conviction. Sally Challen says she spent 40 years being controlled and humiliated by her husband, Richard, and claimed diminished responsibility.

She will now face a retrial after judges heard evidence from a psychiatrist that she was suffering from two mental disorders at the time.