Sara Thornton (born 1954/1955) is a British woman who was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of the 1989 murder of her violent and alcoholic husband, Malcolm Thornton. Thornton never denied the killing, but claimed it had been an accident during an argument.

Dec 25, 2016 · An English broadcast journalist and weather presenter, Sara Thornton is currently married to a former News reporter Jack Izzard. She studied for a post-graduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism, and then joined the BBC as a trainee news reporter.

Sara's defence lawyer completely ignored the issue of abused women who respond in self defence and Sara herself was not given the opportunity to contribute much to her own defence. Sara was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Dame Sara Joanne Thornton, DBE, QPM (born 27 December 1962) was the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner from May 2019 until April 2022. [1] She was appointed [2] by the Home Secretary at the time, Sajid Javid, in succession to Kevin Hyland who left …

Dec 14, 1995 · Sara Thornton, a cause celebre for battered women, is to face a retrial after the Court of Appeal yesterday quashed her five year-old conviction for murdering her drunken and violent husband.

Sara Thornton walked free from court yesterday after a jury found her not guilty of murdering her alcoholic husband, but convicted her of manslaughter.

Aug 15, 1991 · On June 4, 1989, Malcolm told Sara Thornton he would kill her and her 12-year-old daughter, Louise. She killed him first. The jury believed her story, but in Britain, far behind the...

This is her story: of her privileged but emotionally deprived childhood and her marriage to Malcolm Thornton, an ex-policeman, whose accelerating spiral of drunken brutality, and his threats to kill both Sara and her daughter, provoked her to one last desperate act.

Sara Thornton may refer to: Dame Sara Thornton (police officer) (born 1962), British police officer; Sara Thornton case, 1990 British legal case concerning a woman who killed her physically abusive husband

May 13, 1993 · There is only one sentence for murder. Sara Thornton was led from the court to begin her life term. While the family of the man she had killed smiled with relief and congratulated each other, Sara’s sister left the court to tell Sara’s ten-year-old daughter that her mother would not be coming home.