Abused wife Sally Challen wins legal battle to claim £1m estate of husband she bludgeoned ...
(World News UK)

ABUSED wife Sally Challen has won a legal battle to claim £1m estate of the husband she beat to death after years of mental abuse. The 66-year-old's conviction for murder was quashed last year in light of new evidence proving she was suffering a psychiatric illness at the time. 4 4 And yesterday a High Court decided rules preventing offenders benefiting from their crimes should be waived in her case. She had been stripped of her right to inherit the family estate when convicted in 2011 of Richard's death. But Judge Paul Matthews said her late husband, 61, had contributed to his own death. He told the inheritance claims in Bristol without Richard's coercive behaviour over 40...