General Article Sally’s Law

Topic Selected: Domestic Abuse Book Volume: 441

People that kill a partner after years of domestic abuse and violence will now be treated more leniently under new reforms – named Sally’s Law, following the case of Sally Challen.

I can’t remember the exact year but we were living in the flat so it must have been around 1987. I can’t remember the exact time but I know it was in the middle of the night. What I do remember, very clearly, is holding a pillow over my sleeping husband’s head. I held it there for what seemed like forever. He start...

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