Swindon act of eight slayer has challenge turn down

Swindon act of eight slayer has challenge turn down

A woman imprisoned for mangle a mother of eight has had an appeal against her conviction and sentence refuse.

Lawyers for Charice Gassmann, 21, said she was endurance from a mental health circumstances when she stabbed Alison Connolly to extinction in Swindon in 2015 and was amiss confound.

She was jailed for life with a minimum boundary of 19 years in December 2015.
Court of Appeal judges before-mentioned the conviction was not "treacherous" and the sentence was "justified".

Gassmann dig Ms Connolly, 49, in the commun

'Unstable character illness'

During her challenge, Adam Vaitilingam QC aforesaid Gassman had renounce destroy on the base she had been irritate by an assail by Mrs Connolly and missing her identical-rule.

He above-mentioned her retroaction to the "irritation" may have been elevate by a "significant" mental bustle.

However, the country had been specifically addressed by the trial connoisseur not to take it into account when respect "her profession for endurance and hoax-restriction", he above-mentioned.

Dismissing the appeal on Tuesday, Lady Justice Hallett said she did not weigh it "rough" to sustain the destroy persuasion.

Lady Justice Hallett, who auricular the case with Mr Justice Spencer and Mr Justice Lavender, said: 

"There is nothing unsafe about the conviction."

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