Sally Challen - no retrial

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IANBU to say that's excellent news?

It is wonderful. I am so pleased that the coercive control laws are being used now and taken seriously by police & judiciary

@ChampagneCommunist I agree.

Great news!

She can now live the rest of her life in peace, at last.

Yes great news

Absolutely brilliant news. She should never have been sent to prison in the first place. Delighted for her and for her sons who have always supported her.

Fabulous

yanbu

It is obvious that Justice has been done-because the unfortunate woman was able to represent to the Court that she acted with "Diminished Responsibility".
But if anyone thinks that a woman/person can smash a sleeping person's head in with a hammer because...………..er…………...well………...she couldn't think of anything else to do, or "he deserved it", that opens a worrying chasm in the law.

.....I'm conflicted yes she suffered but she had options if her sons knew she was being abused why didn't they report it? I just dont think its something to celebrate more something to ponder...

one of the sons was very articulate about how domestic violence is just glossed over - good on him.

@OnlyaMan
Are you serious
A man shoved a bottle of cleaning fluid up his girlfriends vagina. Killed her and nothing.

This woman did ten years after a lifetime of abuse.

She was guilty of manslaughter
He drove her fucking insane. That man impo opinion didn’t deserve to die. I wish he had been paralysed and incontinet and totally fucked with a least another 30 years of some uncaring person cleaning his arse for him and laughing in his face

@OnlyaMan

I'm pleased that there are laws in place regarding coercive control.

But like you I am uneasy about this case. She had left her husband and was living apart from him. So why on earth visit him and kill him?

If a man had gone to his former wife's house and killed her would everyone be celebrating?

@Notanidiot
No they wouldn’t. But he probably wouldn’t do that much time either.

She did 9 years so at least she's served some time for the crime.

I think I'm glad to be fortunate enough that I can't comprehend taking a hammer to my ex-husband's house and beating him over the head with it. I'm glad that I don't have to live with years of abuse.

I'm also glad that we have Judges who can take all of the information and come to a legal conclusion - it can't be easy to make such decisions.

ut if anyone thinks that a woman/person can smash a sleeping person's head in with a hammer because...………..er…………...well………...she couldn't think of anything else to do, or "he deserved it", that opens a worrying chasm in the law.

Good job that's not the case then, have you read about the case and coercive control?

It was the difference between manslaughter and murder. What should also be of concern is that the number of places in refuges has been reduced, as better still is that a woman (or indeed a man) in such circumstances has a safe place to go to.

I am so pleased for her and her sons.

@Notanidiot They were apparently back together at the time according to one of her children, which is why she was there. Not that she just randomly showed up, cooked him a meal and attacked him.

No one has said she shouldn't have been punished for killing her ex. She was infatuated with him, he denied he made her pregnant as a teenager and she had an abortion.

He humiliated her and had affairs, she'd moved out but wanted to get back with him and found out he was still involved with another woman. She tried to throw herself off Beach Head and had to be talked down.

The question was what should the charge have been given his behaviour- murder or manslaughter? I think what is interesting in this case was she was supported not only by her family but also by his relatives.

Harriet Wistrich has done a sterling job for those who get to the end of their tether having suffered abuse.