Wife who killed 'controlling' husband with hammer 'still loves him'

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Wife who killed 'controlling' husband with hammer 'still loves him'
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Mum says decades of ‘psychological torture’ drove her to bludgeon ‘controlling’ husband to death with hammer

Sally said she still loved her husband after killing him with a hammershe walked free in June after appealing against her murder conviction in a watershed moment for domestic violence victims.

She then drove to Beachy Head, a notorious suicide spot in East Sussex, but did not take her own life. To those who knew them they seemed like the perfect family, with a £1 million home in Claygate, Surrey, and all the trappings of suburban life. Sally maintains she does not recall her actions, but this is when she picked up the hammer and whacked him over the head.

Speaking at the time, Challen's son David, 31, said the verdict gave his mum a "shot at the freedom she has never had since she was 15", when she met her future husband. But her marriage descended into a hideous cycle of control and humiliation culminating in 2009, when she discovered her Richard had been frequenting brothels.

When she got back to the house she grew suspicious that he'd sent her out so he could ring one of his many girlfriends and a swift check of phone records confirmed her fears.

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