A woman who killed her abusive husband by feeding him drug-laced biscuits and locking him in a freezer could be out of prison in just over three years after a successful appeal.
READ MORE:Rebecca Payne, 45, was jailed for 16 years in 2023 after being found guilty of the murder of her husband Noel.
A Supreme Court jury found Payne guilty of murder in March 2023, following a three-week trial in Mildura.Payne had fed the 68-year-old biscuits laced with crushed sleeping pills on September 1, 2020. Payne would have been eligible for parole after serving 10 years, but she challenged her sentence in the Victorian Court of Appeal.
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