Justice system smeared our mother, say Sally Challen’s sons

Sally Challen, flanked by her sons James, left, and David, leaving the Old Bailey after hearing she will not face a retrial. Photograph: Yui Mok/PASally Challen was subjected to a false narrative by a criminal justice system that painted her as “a controlling and jealous lover who planned to kill her husband”, her son has said. In doing so it failed to recognise the decades of abuse and coercive control she had suffered at his hands, David Challen writes in an article for today&rsquo