Welcome to season 4, episode 37 of They Walk Among Us.

A podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Please listen to season 4, episode 36 for Part 1 of this two-part case.

Listen a caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that

some listeners may find distressing.

Sally Chalon was found guilty of murdering her husband Richard in 2010, but over the intervening

years much was changing in the outside world.

There were amendments to the domestic abuse laws in England and Wales, introduced under

the 2015 Serious Crime Act, specifically coercive control.

coercive or controlling behaviour does not relate to a single incident.

It is a persistent pattern of incidents that occur over time, in order for one individual

to exert power, control or coercion over another.

Abuse cannot always be quantified by bruises and broken bones.

While Sally never denied that she killed her husband, what was becoming clear, the whole

truth had not been disclosed at the trial.

Family members who were interviewed spoke of how Sally Chalon, who met Richard when she

was a teenager, was a target of constant psychological abuse from her husband.

Sally Chalon was raised the youngest of five siblings, born in Walton on Thames in 1954,

having four older brothers, who were in their teens when she appeared.

A father who was a brigadier in the Royal Engineers passed away when Sally was only young,

so she was raised by her mother in Surrey.

Being brought up in a somewhat antiquated family, her brothers steadily carved out successful

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