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Landmark appeal – murder conviction quashed

Landmark appeal – murder conviction quashed

When Sally Challen was convicted of murdering her husband in 2011, the courts did not recognise ‘coercive control’ and the impact it could have an individual’s mental health and state of mind. Four years later when physiological

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