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Eight years ago, in 2010, Sally Challen was planning to tell her last words to her son David. "You know I love you, do not you?" She said getting out of her mother's car to get to work.
The day before, Sally had killed her husband, Richard Challen, David's father, with a break-in. ax But that morning, when his mother took him to work, David still did not know that this tragedy had occurred.
Sally's plan that day was to leave her son to work and commit suicide, by jumping from the top of her parking lot.
From there, however, Sally decided to call a cousin, whom she confessed to having killed her husband, and headed for a beach in East Susbad, in the south-east of the island. 39, England, to jump from a cliff. She then repeated the confessions to a suicide prevention team and a priest summoned to help her. After two hours, they convinced her to leave the cliff.
Sally was arrested and sentenced in 2011 to life imprisonment for the death of her husband.
However, his lawyers will now use a new British law, which recognizes psychological manipulation (or "coercive control") as a form of domestic violence, in an attempt to free Sally at a scheduled hearing in February. And his son, David, pleaded for his mother, defending her freedom and claiming that she had suffered years of abuse from her father.
If the lawyers' strategy succeeds, it will be historic and may set precedents in the Kingdom. ” clbad=”img img-responsive image-large”/>
Just as British justice recognized that physical violence in a relationship was a mitigating factor in homicide cases, Sally's lawyers contend that psychological abuse
In the thriving Claygate suburbs, the English region of Surrey, United States, on a Saturday morning of August 2010, Sally was visiting the house she had recently shared with her husband Richard, for 31 years.
and that Sally had left in November of last year after discovering that he was involved in prostitutes.
David and his older brother James (who prefers to avoid media attention) claim that their father had imposed them, over the years, "financial abuse, psychological manipulation, control of his freedom of movement , control of all aspects of his mind ".
After the departure of his father's mother, the children asked him to stay away from him.
But, unbeknownst to her children, she returned to meet her husband in the hope of a reconciliation.
What happened in the house in August 2010, however, was the reverse.
Richard wanted her to sign a postnuptial agreement that would take her away from her. and possession of the family home, estimated at 1 million pounds, and subject to harsh conditions, dictating that she "could not interrupt her and did not want to talk to other people when the couple was at the restaurant ".
There was no food in Richard then asks Sally to go to the grocery store.
Coming back from there, Sally suspects that he has another reason for wanting to take her out of the house. He picked up his phone and dialed the last number dialed. A woman she had identified as being a lover of her husband answered the call.
In the family kitchen, Sally prepared fried eggs and bacon for Richard. She served her husband and, while eating, she took the ax out of her bag and hit her 20 times on the head.
She wrapped her body in curtains and blankets and left a note saying, "I love you, Sally."
Sally also wrote a suicide letter, but decided to postpone her own death until she had the opportunity to see David one last time. At age 23, her son lived with her in the new house that he occupied. "His father died"
The next day, says David, when his mother left him at work and made the declaration of love, the young man was called into his boss's room a few hours later.
"Soon my cousin, followed by a policeman in uniform." He held me by the shoulders and said: "Your father is dead."
Ten months have pbaded and Sally has been judged.
The lawsuit informed the jury that Sally was monitoring Richard's phone conversations and counting up to how many Viagra pills he had. judgment, Sally says little. But there is video evidence in which she admits to killing her husband, in addition to the testimony of the suicide prevention team who met her. They say that his confessions were as follows: "I killed him with an ax, I hit him several times … If I can not have him, no one else will the can. "
Sally was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In March 2018, Sally was granted the right to appeal her conviction.
In March 2018, Sally was granted the right to appeal her conviction.
Her lawyer, Harriet Wistrich of the feminist organization Justice for Women, says the new law can be used as "new evidence" in the case.
"We argue for the first time that understanding domestic violence in the year 2015 offers a new way of looking at Sally's actions, which can support (the thesis of) provocative defense." [19659002] Wistrich believes that it is the first time that the law of coercive control is to be used in the prosecution of a homicide crime: "We affirm that if this new evidence is accepted, the conviction for murder becomes fragile and must be canceled, "he says.
The goal, the lawyer continues, is to try to change the sentence of willful homicide into wrongdoing (without intent to kill) or to seek a new trial.
The fact that Sally's own children defend Sally's freedom – and that, until now, no Richard has publicly spoken out against this – it's important, says Wistrich. But the lawyer also admitted that Sally had an ax in her bag that day suggesting premeditation – and could make the wrongful death sentence last.
David, in turn, argues that Richard's treatment of the mother corresponds exactly to the definition of coercive control.
"It was like she was a robot and he tightened control (to decide) had to do," he says.
The son says that Richard was a controller, he then continued the son. And if she were faced with this, she would say, "Sally, you're crazy." It was like one of his mantras. "
" There was a pressure cooker … His world was spinning around his, and he knew I knew she was in jail. "My father and his behavior were the only references he had," David said in several interviews with British media during his campaign for his mother's release.
David says his family has was led by
Insults
If she did something to him that would have it, she should do it. "Unhappy, Richard determined that she could only use the car to go to work because her The neighbors say that Richard treated the woman as a property.
And Sally was insulted by her husband for her alleged overweight. "It was something that my brother and I I was listening all the time, "says David.
During the trial, Sally was described as a woman who attacked Richard furiously after discovering that he had telephoned a girlfriend.
" She took an ax and killed my father, and I admit that this happened, but we must recognize the effects of psychological control, I do not know why she took this ax.
He adds that the mother still claims to love her father – something that he and her brother "can not understand".
"I do not know how to interpret this: her father is no longer alive and still has control over her."
He hopes that Sally's call will be able to "recognize the mental abuse to which she was submissive and endured in life. "[19659002]" It's not that she was a jealous woman, "he says. "She was psychologically manipulated all her life, owned by this man, my father." She deserves her right to freedom. "
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