Rebecca Payne’s appeal came after trial heard she was forced to have tattoo of man’s name and was barred from going to son’s funeral
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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.
Rebecca Payne, 45, was jailed for 16 years in 2023 after being found guilty of the murder of her husband, Noel, at their Walpeup home near Mildura, in Victoria’s north-west.
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