this programme contains repetitive flashing images. tonight at ten... a woman who killed her husband after decades of emotional abuse has her murder conviction reduced to manslaughter and won't face a retrial. after a campaign led by herfamily, sally challen is free to go home after time served, but saying her husband will always be a part of her. i still love richard and miss him dreadfully, and i wish that none of this had happened. to have my mother back is, um... there's no words. her lawyers say the criminaljust a system her lawyers say the criminaljust a syste m m ust her lawyers say the criminaljust a system must wake up to the reality of coercive control.

also tonight... jeremy corbyn says labour's narrow win in the peterborough by—election was a victory for hope and the rejection of a no—deal brexit. three hospital patients in manchester and liverpool die after an outbreak of listeria linked to prepacked sandwiches. fighting for democracy in sudan. we talk to the family of one protester. a run to the near post. she there again. the biggest ever women's world cup football tournament ever gets under way with a win for the hosts, france. and coming up on sportsday on bbc news, jo konta's french open run comes to an end with defeat in the semifinals to the czech teenager marketa vondrousova.

good evening. a woman who killed her husband in a hammer attack after decades of emotional abuse won't face a retrial after her murder conviction was reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. sally challen, who is 65, was freed having already served close to nine years in jail. her defence team argued in court that throughout her 30—year marriage, her husband subjected her to coercive control. a warning, our home affairs correspondentjune kelly's report does contain some flash photography. cheering and applause. eight years ago, sally challen was jailed as a murderer. today, she left the old bailey a free woman after the emergence of new psychiatric evidence. with her, her two sons, james and david, who have always supported her. ijust wanted to say how happy i am, and i want to thank my legal team and all my family,

who stood behind me and stood with me through all of this. thank you. as a family we are overjoyed with today's verdict. we have endured nine years of this. today recognises and hears a case of detailing 40 years of coercive control by our father. as a family we have sought justice and to understand the events, to stop lives being lost and for victims to be recognised. sally challen was said to have been psychologically abused by her husband richard throughout their marriage. they made their home in surrey and on the surface he was a typical family man. but the family say he subjected his wife to what has become known as coercive control. richard challen was unfaithful throughout his marriage, visiting brothels and even posing with glamour models on his christmas cards. in 2009, sally challen

finally moved out. but described as still emotionally dependent on her husband, she appealed for a reconciliation and richard challen agreed. she set off for her old family home but in her handbag was a hammer. after discovering her husband had been in contact with another woman, she hit him more than 20 times with the hammer. at a news conference, sally challen spoke about the man she was with for a0 years. i still love richard and miss him dreadfully and i wish that none of this had happened. applause. and from her son david, there was this... to have my mother back is... there's no words. it's back to being a son again,

and back to her being an infuriating mother. laughter. with no retrial in this case, lawyers are still waiting to see coercive control tested as a factor in a defence to murder. when parliament makes new laws, as it did in the case of coercive control, it's really helpful if that goes to court so that the judges can interpret that law. sally challen now resumes her family life. her case will lead to renewed debate on the damage done by domestic abuse when there are no physical injuries. june, one wonders how common this kind of cases, a defence lawyer putting forward coercive control as a mitigating factor? yes, a very unusual case, clive. it began as an unusual case, clive. it began as an unusual case, clive. it began as an unusual case in that the justice for

women campaign group, which fought this case, did so on the basis that sally challen was a victim of her husband's coercive control and coercive control only became a criminal offence in this country in recent yea rs. criminal offence in this country in recent years. now, the reason prosecutors decided to accept her plea of guilty to manslaughter was not because of coercive control, it was because experts found that sally challen was suffering from mental health problems which were not diagnosed at the time of her original trial, and this is what had led to her, led her to kill. now the judge said he accepted that morning she did not set out with the intention of killing her husband, so i'll coercive control has not played a part in the decision making in the legal process in this case, what this case has done is to highlight the whole issue of coercive control in intimate relationships. june kelly, thank you. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn says his party's win in the peterborough by—election represents a victory

for hope and the rejection of a no—deal brexit. labour, who campaigned on local issues, narrowly held onto the seat, with nigel farage's brexit party finishing just 683 votes behind. the by—election was triggered after the former mp, fiona onasanya, was convicted of lying about a speeding offence. here's our deputy political editor, john pienaar, and there are some flashing images in his report. triumph, gratitude. well, a winner's a winner. relief? definitely. can i get some space, please? peterborough elected a new labour mp, just, and jeremy corbyn came to milk it. his message... we offer the politics of hope, to end austerity, to fund our schools properly. all the experts wrote labour off yesterday. write labour off at your peril! to all the squabbling contenders for the tory party leadership, bring it on! we are ready for a general election at any time.

cheering. cheering. no clear backing from him, then, for a new referendum. if labour had lost by 600 votes, lost by one, jeremy corbyn would be under irresistible pressure to embrace the idea of a new referendum. no ifs, no buts. that pressure will continue anyway. the tory leadership campaign is now characterised by which candidate is most prepared to contemplate leaving with no deal. and here is one reason why. so little time, so much politics to disrupt. nigel farage's newborn brexit party had been cautiously confident of getting its first mp — another shock through both major parties. time for excuses. you have been a winner. today you look like a loser. no, that'sjust not right, john. and there is no way the country will see that. what ordinary folk will see is a party that was launched eight weeks ago today, you know, has gotjust shy of 30% of the vote. a little bit deflated, let's be honest. not deflated, no. look, a couple of hundred votes the other way and it would have

looked like the world has changed overnight but actually, it has anyway. and i do hereby declare... in the early hours, labour won, the brexit party didn't. lisa forbes' career started uncomfortably, accused of anti—semitism for liking an online post attacking zionists she said she never read properly. nigel farage was there, hoping to celebrate. blink and you'd have missed him. three, two, one, go! everyone seemed to know the result by the time peterborough‘s morning fun run started. the local by—election had strained old loyalties. i didn't want the brexit party to get in, that was for sure, so that was really what pushed me to go and put my cross in the box. the brexit party haven't, fortunately, won. i'm pleased about that. labour got a bit of a scare. what should they learn from this, do you think? i think they should just be really careful and be a bit more uniform about their message. i think people are really confused

about their message. on europe? on europe. i've always voted conservative. how did you vote? brexit. why did you vote for brexit? as a protest. against what? the way we are at the moment. losing here last night, is that going to set back the brexit party or are they going to come again, do you think? i think they'll hang on. british form, yeah, they'll stick with it. you think they'll be back? nigel farage, you can't keep him down for long? no, actually, no. he is getting stronger i think, yeah. he had time to drop by number 10, where mrs may was formally submitting her resignation letter. his demanded a seat for his party in any talks in brussels. not what tory leadership contenders had in mind. the result reminds us of two things. the vital importance of delivering brexit, and also the vital importance of making sure we have a strong conservative government that can preventjeremy corbyn getting into downing street and ruining this country.

oh, for a breather. for runners, for political rivals. they will need it, we all will. john, labour won narrowly, the brexit party lost narrowly, so what should we read into the peterborough result? it's sometimes easy to overrate the importance of by—elections and people vote for all sorts of different reasons in the privacy of the polling booth. it can hardly have helped labour that the last mp was jailed for lying to the police about a traffic offence. the new mp campaigned hard on austerity and cuts in public services, which would have appealed to many, many people, get nigel farage is entitled to claim that he has shaken the roots of both of the big parties, despite coming second in the peterborough by—election. what no one can deny is that anger and frustration over brexit, and the failure to deliver brexit, has

coursed through the political bloodstream, and through public opinion, making it impossible to predict almost anything about politics except its sheer unpredictability. as the prime minister today has written her letter formally submitting her resignation as party leader and as we wait for a new tory leader and a new prime minister to be elected, all of the contenders to succeed her understand perfectly well, though i doubt any of them are very keen to admit it, that we as a country now are facing a crisis on a scale and the kind that's not been before, and a crisis with no clear solution at all. 0k, john pienaar, thank you, at westminster. three hospital patients in manchester and liverpool have died and three others are seriously ill following an outbreak of listeria. the cases have been linked to prepacked sandwiches and salads prepared for patients. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more details. listeria is an infection that in healthy people can cause a relatively mild flu—like illness

and can even pass unnoticed, but for those who are already ill, or who have a weakened immune system, it can be much more serious, affecting the blood stream and the brain. that's the case with six patients who were already poorly and became infected. three of them have since died, two at the manchester royal infirmary and one at liverpool's aintree hospital. we hope there will be no more cases. one of the problems with this particular infection is the long incubation period. it can be three or four weeks, so in terms of the numbers we just watching. the outbreak seems to have occurred early last month and has been traced to prepacked sandwiches made specifically for the health care sector by the good food chain. the company gets its sandwich fillings from north country cooked meats and it's here that a strain of listeria has been identified. both companies have now voluntarily ceased production and in a statement the good food chain said it regularly laboratory tests its supplies, finished

products and environment, in line with industry guidelines and best practice. experts say the bug is a threat the food industry is well aware of. it's particularly difficult for the food industry because unlike a lot of the other bacteria that we get through eating food, this one will grow in the fridge. following the deaths of patients here in manchester and liverpool, public health england say there is no evidence of any further cases outside of the health care system and the risk to the general public is low. meanwhile the food standards agency has launched an investigation into the causes of this and also to make sure no more vulnerable patients are at risk. dominic hughes, bbc news, manchester. the high court has thrown out a private prosecution against boris johnson over allegations he lied during the eu referendum campaign. the case centred on the claim that the uk gave the european union £350 million a week. but the judges overturned an earlier decision to issue a summons on mrjohnson.

helena wilkinson has more details. are you going to be the next prime minister? the leadership contest is well under way, but today, borisjohnson had a different battle. in court, his lawyers were trying to stop him from facing a criminal trial. this is the man who accused boris johnson of misconduct in public office. last week a court decided there was a case for mrjohnson to answer and he was due to be summoned. but today, that decision was overturned. we've just given the green light for every politician to lie to us about our money for ever. that's a terrifying idea which i cannot accept, and i'm not going to give up. this was one of the main messages of the vote leave campaign. boris johnson had claimed £350 million was being sent from the uk to the eu every week. it was a contested claim, with many people saying it was a lie. but did it amount to a criminal offence?

in court, borisjohnson's barrister argued that the offence of misconduct in public office, which is what mrjohnson was facing, had never been used in the context of a statement in a political campaign. adrian darbishire qc said the offence was about the secret abuse of power and that there was nothing secret about what mrjohnson was claiming. £350 million a week. let's spend it on our priorities. his supporters say the case should never have got to court. to try and fight political debate through the criminal courts is what happens in dictatorships. it's not what happens in democracies. for mrjohnson, an unwelcome distraction now gone away, allowing him to focus on his next campaign — to become the new prime minister. helena wilkinson, bbc news. five days after dozens of pro—democracy demonstrators were killed in sudan, talks have been taking place aimed at preventing further violence.

the country has been controlled by a military council since april, when president omar al—bashir was overthrown in a coup. on monday, civilian protesters who want the council removed were attacked by paramilitaries. the opposition says more than a hundred people were killed. now the ethiopian prime minister has flown to the capital khartoum to try to bring the two sides together. from there, our correspondent catherine byaruanga has the latest. it's the kind of grief that can be understood anywhere in the world. why my beautiful son? i want him to have kids and get married, and he had his life. mohammed celebrated his 26th birthday hours before he was killed protesting for democracy. family and friends continue to mourn a man they say was a natural leader. mohammed was studying engineering at brunel university in london.

he recently came back home for his sister's wedding, and joined the sit—in against military rule. this is thought to be the last footage of him. i told him today maybe they are going to do bad things. he said, he know, and he has to do his work. mohammed is from an influential family, but that did not save him. this conflict has touched people from all walks of life. ethiopian's prime minister has spent the day trying to mediate after security forces killed more than a hundred protesters and talks collapsed. activists insist they will only negotiate once there is justice for the victims. friday prayers at the mosque in khartoum. this is another community that has been attacked. people have set up barricades

all over this neighbourhood to protect themselves from government militia. they say a few days ago one person was killed outside a bakeryjust down the road, another in front of the local mosque. they're sceptical about whether negotiations with the military can work out. translation: the only way to have successful talks is by publishing who committed these crimes, and we think the only ones responsible for the crimes are the military council. so, do you think there's a chance that you can negotiate with the military council? translation: there is no chance for negotiation with the army, because they're not honest or serious. they have lied and been manipulative from the start. there is little comfort to be found in sudan at the moment. this is a nation still in shock, and unsure what comes next. catherine byaru hanga, bbc news, khartoum.

four teenage males aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and aggrevated grevous bodily harm. it follows an attack on two women on a london night bus. the assault on melania geymonat and her girlfriend chris took place as they were travelling in the early hours. the attackers asked the couple to kiss, while making sexual gestures. here's the bbc‘s lgbt correspondent ben hunte. covered in blood on a london bus. after holding hands, a group of men asked the couple to kiss and began harassing them. they got out of their seats, walked over to where we were. they started very aggressively harassing us. after asking the men to stop, they were left with black eyes, a cracked jaw and a suspected broken nose. i don't know how we got from fighting on top of the bus down to the lower deck, but in that timeframe they took my phone, her bag, and they ran off the bus.

summer marks pride season across the world. in just a few weeks, lesbian, gay, bisexual and tra nsgender people, as well as their allies, will be out celebrating at one of the country's biggest events, pride in london. these streets will be filled with proud lgbt people celebrating their visibility. but just this time last year, research found that more than two thirds of lgbt people were too scared to hold hands with a same sex partner in public. this attack has served as a reality check as to why raising awareness is still so needed today. we're hoping that the government will do more in terms of legislation. we wa nt we want to have equaljustice so that when somebody is being sentenced for a crime against lgbt people, it's the same as if it's a crime against someone for their race oi’ crime against someone for their race or their faith. chris and milani are

hope something comes from this incident, but they say they will not change their behaviour because of it. ben hunte, bbc news. from as early as next year, nasa is to allow private citizens to stay at the international space station. it'll allow up to two private trips there per year, and paves the way for travel aboard rocket and capsule launch systems being developed by spacex and boeing. but the cost could set you back hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pounds. the women's football world cup has kicked off in france, and it's the biggest ever, with 2a teams competing. tonight, the tournament hosts were in action in paris, and our sports editor dan roan is there. dan. almost a million tickets so far have been sold for an event that tournament organisers hope won't just be the best women's world cup to date but which could also prove a truly significant breakthrough moment for women's sport more generally. it was a packed out parc des princes here in paris for the

opening match between the hosts, france, and south korea. the hosts got off to the perfect start, two headed goals from wendy renard in the first half helping france to a 3-0 the first half helping france to a 3—0 lead. but the highlight of the opening game of this fantastic shot by amandine henry which made it 4—0 to the hosts. they have laid down a real marker, that is how it ended and they will be very tough to beat, ican and they will be very tough to beat, i can tell you, for the remainder of the four weeks. but also in this opening weekend, a crunch game between england and scotland answer and a in night from where my colleague katie gornall now reports. this was when it all changed for england. four years ago at the canada world cup, they surprised even themselves by winning a bronze medal. the outsiders were now contenders. it was also a life—changing tournament for england's right back. maybe bronze will. she does. oh, yes! after announcing herself on the global stage,

lucy bronze has gone on to become one of the world's best players, the best, according to her manager. we had experience and youth last world cup but we did not have that winning feeling, that winning mentality, which we have got in abundance now. can england do it? definitely. that's what we're here for. we are here to win. we are definitely capable of doing it and i believe in every single one of us. standing in their way are noisy neighbours scotland. the last time they faced each other, scotland, hampered by injuries, were thrashed 6—0. this time they will be far harder to beat. that is a very good effort! erin cuthbert. much of their hopes rest with 20—year—old erin cuthbert, once the team's mascot, now their young star. it's everything i dreamt of as a little child. i wanted to be a footballer. ever since i could walk i was playing football. i dreamed of playing at a world cup. i didn't know if scotland would ever make a world cup. but i'm just incredibly honoured and privileged to be part of this

team that is making history. when england and scotland walk out onto this pitch, they'll be taking part in the most eagerly anticipated women's world cup yet. there's more investment in the women's game now, the audiences are bigger and the standard is higher but still significant issues in the sport remain. a video announcing germany's squad went viral after it highlighted some of the struggles they've faced in the game. fifa accept women's football still has some way to go in its fight for equality. our ultimate goal is to reach the moment where we aren't going to talk about women's football and men's football, that we just consider football as a game for everyone. this tournament could be transformational. there's already a feel—good factor, and now the football's begun, both teams here will be hoping to capture the world's attention. katie gornall, bbc news, nice.

the signs are encouraging for this tournament. there is more broadcast and tournament backing than there has ever been, the prize money has been doubled compared to the last eventin been doubled compared to the last event in 2015, but there are still many within women's football who believe that there is still too much ofa believe that there is still too much of a golf financially between the womens and the men's game. if england or scotland do well, go far and capture the imagination in a similar way to england's men's team last summer in the men's world cup in russia, and whether or not this is just in russia, and whether or not this isjust a spike in interest or in russia, and whether or not this is just a spike in interest or leads toa is just a spike in interest or leads to a long—term engagement that can make more women and girls play and watch the sport. if it does prove that, then it can perhaps be a real game changer. dan roan, live in paris, thank you. that's it. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

hello, and welcome to sportsday. i'm lizzie greenwood—hughes. here's what's coming up on tonight's show. france get their world cup off to a winning start off

to a winning start with a 4—0 victory over south korea. jo konta's french open run comes to an end, beaten in the semi—finals at roland garros. and lewis hamilton crashes out of second practice at the canadian grand prix. thanks forjoining us on sportsday. let's start at the women's world cup, where hosts france nearly immediately —— million tickets sold and a host of france got off to a winning start. patrick gearey reports. in scale and spectacle, france promised to host women's football's

great show and is medical that does not stop until everything stops in the smoke clears. france arm of the favourites, especially up against south korea. here is why. the first goal of the world cup in 2019! their biggest our scoring, and beginning so biggest our scoring, and beginning so perfect it was almost choreographed, almost. football is not put but now even when you score, you are not entirely sure. france that they had a second but this is the first women plus what tournament to use the ar in this was the first use was of the delusion of somewhat belated offside. minor delay to the french as they had the tallest player in the tournament in their number. but nothing too beyond any south korean. before the break, we saw an aerial encore. head and shoulders above, just like her team. for a time shoulders above, just like her team. fora time in shoulders above, just like her team. for a time in the second half, it seemed they were too comfortable. south korea allowed a fleeting moment here. it passed all too

quickly. she knows she could have gotten better. many of this france i play club football for your‘s dominant team, among them there captain. a wonderful, wonderful goal! and nd can this already feels to finding. hosting tournaments weighs heavy on some sites but france however are owning their stage. well, england who are ranked third in the world, start their world cup against scotland in group d on sunday. scotland are making their tournament debut, but are on a good run of form and are expected to be much improved since their 6—0 thrashing by england at euro 2017. there was a time when england were miles ahead. we have seen how far will split just miles ahead. we have seen how far will splitjust in qualification and obviously scotland now getting to the world cup is unbelievable for them. back when they qualify, i was honestly so happy for them because i see they have come on a journey and iamso see they have come on a journey and i am so happy they get to experience that. they are amazing players and

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