Episode 98 - Sally Challen: A Case of Coercive Control

RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 19.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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One Saturday morning in November 2010 Sally Challen walked into the kitchen and hit her husband Richard in the head with a hammer. She hit him over 20 times. In the trial that followed Sally was painted as a possessive, jealous woman who murdered her husband in cold-blood. This year, in 2019, Sally won a land mark appeal to have her conviction overturned as a fresh defence was shaped around her mental state owing to the years of emotional and psychological abuse she had suffered at the hands of her husband.

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/she-killed-her-husband-but-sally-challen-might-be-the-real-victim

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/29/devoted-wife-who-killed-husband-with-hammer-sally-challen

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sally-challen-appeal-husband-killed-david-court-a8799681.html%3famp

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:24.0	I'm Saruuti, I'm Hannah, and welcome to Redhanded.
0:27.0	One Saturday morning, in November 2010, 56-year-old Sally Challenn walked into the kitchen of her husband, Richard Challenn's home, and hit him over the head with a hammer.
0:37.0	She hit him again and again over 20 times, as Richard sat at the kitchen table, eating bacon and eggs.
0:45.0	And just in case Richard was still alive after the attack, Sally stuffed a tea towel into his mouth, and then wrapped his body up in some old curtains.
0:54.0	She then wrote a note that said, I love you, Sally, and placed it on Richard's body.
1:00.0	Then she washed up the breakfast dishes, and drove back to Claygate and Sari, to the home she was sharing with her and Richard's 23-year-old son David, since the pair had separated a few months ago.
1:10.0	The next day, Sally drove her son David to work, and then drove herself to beachy head. When she arrived, she called her cousin to confess what she'd done.
1:20.0	Then she walked out onto the cliffs. Reports flooded into Sussex Police of a woman on the edge of the 500-foot cliffs.
1:27.0	For people who aren't British, beachy head is probably the most famous spot in the UK, where people kill themselves by jumping off cliffs.
1:34.0	I'm going to beachy head next weekend, actually.
1:36.0	Are you?
1:37.0	Well, this weekend. This weekend, yeah.
1:39.0	I'm going to stay in Hastings, and then I'm going to go do beachy head to the Seven Sisters Country Park.
1:45.0	Oh, nice. I'm excited.
1:46.0	Someone, I can't remember who told me it might have been one of my housemates. They said that I don't know if they were there, or anyone, a group of their friends were at a restaurant in Tower Bridge celebrating a birthday and someone jumped as they were having this birthday lunch, and they all sort of had to pretend that it didn't happen.
2:04.0	Oh, my God. Recently.
2:06.0	Like, literally last week, yeah.
2:08.0	Jesus. I didn't even hear about that.
2:10.0	You never hear about people jumping off the bridges in London, really?
2:12.0	No, I've never heard that.
2:13.0	You hear about the Humber Bridge, but the London bridges just aren't that high, like the ones on the river.
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