Sally’s Law
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People that kill a partner after years of domestic abuse and violence will now be treated more leniently under new reforms – named Sally’s Law, following the case of Sally Challen.
I can’t remember the exact year but we were living in the flat so it must have been around 1987. I can’t remember the exact time but I know it was in the middle of the night. What I do remember, very clearly, is holding a pillow over my sleeping husband’s head. I held it there for what seemed like forever. He started spluttering and I sort of ‘came to’ and realised what I was doing. It kind of felt like a dream but it wasn’t. I think the night before, he had hit me but it really doesn’t matter if he did or didn’t. Perhaps he had called me a fat ****. Probably, as he called me that and other things most days. He was a very heavy sleeper – more so when he had had a drink, but again, I can’t remember if he had had a drink or not. I could so easily have killed him that night and to this day, he knows nothing ...
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