A jealous wife murdered her wealthy husband with a hammer because she suspected he was having an affair, a court heard.
Sally Challen assumed Ferrari enthusiast Richard’s deception after dialling 1471 on his phone, which revealed his last conversation was with Sue Wilce, whom he had met on a dating website, the jury was told.
So the 57-year-old, who was not living with Mr Challen but was trying to patch up their relationship, took the hammer from her handbag and crept up behind him as he ate lunch at his kitchen table.
In an attack of ‘extreme ferocity’, Mrs Challen, an office manager for the Police Federation, bludgeoned her 61-year-old husband more than 20 times over the head. Later she told a chaplain: ‘If I can’t have him no one can.’
Mrs Challen covered her dead husband – who had run a car dealership before suffering from ill health and was ‘fascinated’ by fast cars – with old curtains in the kitchen of the £1million four-bedroom home they once shared in Claygate, Surrey.
And she left a note on his body which read: ‘I love you, Sally.’
The following day she drove 70 miles to notorious seaside suicide spot Beachy Head in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and called her cousin, Suzanne Anderson.
There she confessed to the killing and said she was going to jump off the cliff, Guildford Crown Court heard.
In a suicide note found in her car, Mrs Challen claimed that he had been having numerous affairs and used prostitutes during their 31-year marriage.
She had left him, but Mr Challen had recently agreed to give the marriage another try after she signed a ‘post-nuptial agreement’ to avoid further financial costs should their reconciliation fail.
‘I then found out that he was seeing someone and sleeping with them and had no intention of taking me back,’ the note said.
‘It was all a game so he could get everything. I can’t live without him. [He] said it would take him time but he felt the same.
‘Now I find he is seeing and sleeping with them. All these prostitutes and other women – how could he?’
Opening the case, prosecutor Caroline Carberry said the couple were planning to rent out their marital home and travel to Australia to make a fresh start.
On August 14, Mrs Challen turned up at the house to help clear it out. However, after returning from the shops with lunch, she noticed that his phone had been moved.
So she investigated the last number he communicated with and then dialled it, jurors were told.
While she was at the shop, Mr Challen, who was watching the Grand Prix, had spoken to Miss Wilce. But he was in fact cancelling a trip on her boat planned for the following day, Miss Carberry said.
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