No Retrial For Mrs Challen

[albaqwerty]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/sally-challen-mother-who-bludgeoned-husband-to-death-with-hammer-will-not-face-retrial/ar-AACxrv1?ocid=spartanntp

Personally, I'm pleased for her and her children.

[Rockrose]

Hurrah so pleased for her, the right decision

[Tilly2]

That is very good news. Thanks Alba.

[Spicerack]

// Following the Court of Appeal ruling, legal experts said that Mrs Challen’s test case would spark hope for dozens of women imprisoned for murdering their partners who would seek to overturn their convictions.//

Only women?

[Rockrose]

How many men have been jailed Spicerack for murdering their abusive partners?

[albaqwerty]

Probably not, Spice, however I think they only meant Women purely because they were talking about a woman in this instance.

[fender62]

good for her..

[Tilly2]

...and she says she will always love him...

[woofgang]

says it all really

[Tilly2]

It does, Woofy. So sad, really.

I'm glad she's home. I hope she copes with the new found freedom.

[Deskdiary]

Charge reduced to manslaughter and timed served, so she's now free. Seems reasonable to me

Anything less than this, given she did cave his head in with a hammer with many many blows and, if my understanding is correct, it wasn't spontaneous, would have been lenient irrespective of what she very clearly endured.

[anotheoldgit]

To carry a hammer in her handbag and then go on to smash in her husband's head no matter of what she accused him of, doesn't seem like manslaughter to me, but premeditated murder.

[retrocop]

Well she has done nine years already. Like most third world countries life has become cheap in the UK so nine years for murder is about par for the course nowadays. :-(

[david small]

Back in the day she would have swung.

[agchristie]

^ she did ,with a hammer. :-(

[david small]

Lol.

[retrocop]

Challen nee Maxwell