A Victorian woman who killed her husband by feeding him temazepam-laced lemon biscuits before stuffing him in a freezer has had her murder sentence reduced to 12 years behind bars.
)A woman who murdered her abusive husband with drug-laced biscuits has had her jail sentence reduced .Rebecca Payne will now be eligible for parole in December 2027.Share article
The state's Court of Appeal has slashed that sentence to 12 years and she will be eligible for parole after seven.Ms Payne and her criminal defence barrister Veronika Drago applied for an appeal against the conviction and sentence but the conviction stands. "She had endured upwards of ten years of intolerable and seemingly escalating emotional and physical torment at the hands of the deceased," they said in their judgement.The judges determined Ms Payne's situation was inescapable.
His body was left in a freezer for three days before police found it in September 2020 in Walpeup, 130 kilometres south of Mildura.
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