Jilted wife appeals against conviction

Rena Salmon claimed diminshed responsibility

A woman who shot dead her husband's girlfriend is to appeal her conviction for murder.

Rena Salmon, 43, is serving a life sentence for the murder of Lorna Stewart who was two months pregnant when she was shot at her west London beauty salon.

Salmon admitting shooting Ms Stewart, but said she had not gone to the salon intending to kill her and suffered an "abnormality of mind".

But the jury on 16 May rejected the defence argument that she should be convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Salmon's solicitor Tan Ikram of Slough-based firm IBB, told BBC Radio Berkshire that after taking legal advice, his client would be appealing against the jury's verdict

Attempted suicide

Salmon had met her husband Paul while both served in the Army and they had been married 17 years.

The couple were friends with Ms Stewart and her husband Keith Rodrigues as they all lived in the same village of Great Shefford in Berkshire.

But Mr Salmon began an affair with Ms Stewart and set up home with her in a flat in Iver, Buckinghamshire.

The trial heard Salmon suffered severe depression and had attempted suicide after learning of the affair.

She shot her rival twice with her husband's gun on 10 September 2002.

Salmon did not know Ms Stewart was two months pregnant with her husband's child at the time of the killing.