Sally Challen

[Tilly2]

You may remember me posting this link wishing this woman well.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1648041.html

She has had the conviction for murder quashed and is now back home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-47845450

She will now face a new trial and again, I hope that things turn out positively for her.

[spathiphyllum]

her husband turned her into a bit of a pshyco from years and years of mental and physical abuse. However, that doesn't change the fact that what her husband made her into, now potentially needs controlling. Personally, i don't think she could stomach hurting or killing anyone else, only her husband so i've no issues with her now being free, after serving time.

[naomi24]

*repeatedly*

[spathiphyllum]

the person who she has been made into, may be a danger to our society. That should not be ignored because she is a victim of mental and physical abuse.

However as i've said i think the only person she had red vision for was her husband. But this should be monitored.

Maybe if she received minor verbal abuse later in life, this could 'trigger' her.

[anotheoldgit]

Tilly2

/// I don't believe she did plan this. I believe she just snapped. ///

Perhaps one could say that if she had stabbed him on the spur of the moment with a kitchen knife,
but a hammer????? Ah yes!! everyone has a hammer conveniently at hand.

[spathiphyllum]

Theland usually does

[naomi24]

I agree with Tilly. I think that is the action of someone who 'snaps' rather than pre-plans a murder.

[Spicerack]

She went around to his house with a hammer in her bag.
Some snapping.

[Rockrose]

I have a hammer under my sink - I see it everytime I reach for the bleach or the washing up liquid.

[Rockrose]

At the end of the day the barrack room lawyers can scream 'she's a murderer end of' as much as they want - the murder conviction has been overturned and she is awaiting a new trial.

[anotheoldgit]

sherrardk

/// She didn’t murder him, that conviction has been over turned. ///

You are wrong, although her earlier conviction has been overturned, she still has to face a fresh trial for Murder, since her plea of manslaughter has been refused by the Judge.

[Spicerack]

And you put it in your bag every time you go out, just in case, Rocky?

[naomi24]

Spicerack, //She went around to his house with a hammer in her bag.//

I can't see that in the report. it says//Mrs Challen, 65, was found guilty of murdering 61-year-old Richard in a hammer attack at their home ...//

[Spicerack]

It must be a crap report. It wasn't their home, it was his home. She had her own home in another part of town.

[spathiphyllum]

The husband ask'd for the hammer, she said.. "You can't touch this" he tried to grab it.. she said "I told you homeboy u can't touch this"

She then said "catch this beat" and the rest is for news reports.

[LadyCG]

I don't condone her actions but I think this woman has been through sheer hell.

I hope her torment will come to an end soon and she and her family can rebuild what is left of their lives.

[naomi24]

Do you have another report, Spicerack?

[agchristie]

//I hope her torment will come to an end soon and she and her family can rebuild what is left of their lives//

Do these wishes extend to the family of the deceased?

Some on here are deeply sympathetic towards a person who they no virtually nothing about nor the substance of the new evidence.

This woman still faces a murder charge.Will their sympathies remain if she is tried again and convicted?

[spathiphyllum]

Yes because ladyCG seems to have sympathy for the torment and abuse she suffered,and how it affected the family.. not the action she committed. So regardless of conviction, the fact she was tormented and abused remains, and is the catalyst for this action.

[agchristie]

Spath,but how many have sympathy for the family of the deceased?

[spathiphyllum]

I am not sure.