Following the successful appeal in February to have her murder conviction quashed, my mother Sally Challen last Friday had her plea to manslaughter accepted for the killing of my father Richard Challen in August 2010. Justice system smeared our mother, say Sally Challen’s sons Read moreOur mother was only 15 when she met our father, 21. Many of the supporters who attended were there to see justice finally come for our mother, many personally affected by abuse themselves. When the criminal justice system fails to recognise abuse in these cases, it is failing to protect both victims of abuse and the perpetrators they kill. They have suffered abuse and other miscarriages of justice and should be serving sentences for manslaughter and not murder.”justiceforwomen.org.uk

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2019 15:11 UTC