The Case of Sally Challen

In 2010 Surrey mother-of–two Sally Challen bludgeoned her husband Richard to death with a hammer as he sat eating lunch at the kitchen table. No one at her trial was surprised when the jury found her  guilty of murder.  Seven years later, Challen’s appeal against her conviction gripped the press and the nation. New defence lawyers argue that Challen was the victim of her husband’s coercive control, a form of psychological abuse, and that she should be in prison for manslaughter, not murder. But the odds are staked against her – less than 10% of application for appeal against convictions are successful and this  is the first time that coercive control has been presented to the courts as a partial defence to murder. This compelling film follows Challen, her son David who has been by her side throughout, and her legal team as her landmark case is heard in the Royal Courts of Justice.