The Battered Partner: “I had no choice”

For media reports on the case of Janet Gardner, see:

Paul Myers, “Appeal court frees woman who killed in self-defence”, the Guardian, 30 October 1992

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_utxvQGdWHsC&pg=PA397&lpg=PA397&dq=janet+gardner+manslaughter&source=bl&ots=46c6C630V_&sig=ACfU3U0JErjIhqSqSohX3l7FqXY-mMwe-w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiD24H9lLbnAhXcQUEAHW3nBskQ6AEwBHoECAkQAQ

Heather Mills, “Battered woman is freed over killing”, 30 October 1992

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/battered-woman-is-freed-over-killing-1560359.html

For an academic discussion, see:

Aileen McColgan, “In Defence of Battered Women Who Kill”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 508-529

https://www.jstor.org/stable/764547