IT is 9.30am and Sally Challen is sitting contently by the window in her new home, deep in the countryside.
The mum of two bought the house with her husband, Dellon, two years ago and says there was a time she could never have imagined being so happy.
Sally, 69, is a different woman compared to the one I met in 2012 – when she was two years into a life sentence for murder.
On August 14, 2010, she bludgeoned former husband Richard to death with a hammer at their home in Surrey, having endured decades of coercive control, domestic abuse and rape.
The couple had been married for 31 years and had two sons, James, 39, and David, 36.