ABSTRACT
Margaret Raby killed her husband after a history of abuse, which was described by the judge as ‘effectively imprisoning] … [her] and then brainwash[ing] … [her] physically, psychologically and sexually’.3 Margaret Raby testified: ‘I loved Keith very much with all my heart and I thought what I could give him, sir, with my love and psychiatric help, we could overcome what he did to me.’4 She also testified, ‘I thought what I could give him-my love, anything he wanted, would [stop the abuse] …but it didn’t.’5 Later she testified, ‘I loved him.’ to which the prosecutor replied, ‘[a]nd he wasn’t really a bad fellow, was he?’6
