Mellor seeks reduced sentence for murder

Posted on August 15, 2017
Sarah Mellor
Sarah Mellor was sentenced in July to eight years in prison for second-degree murder. (Photo courtesy Illinois Department of Corrections)

By Eric Stock

EUREKA – A Bloomington woman who is serving an eight-year prison sentence for killing her husband last year is asking a judge to reduce her prison term.

An attorney for Sarah Mellor filed the motion in Woodford County court. Meller, a former Bloomington High School teacher, was sentenced last month after admitting to stabbing her husband, Mark Mellor, to death at a private campground near Carlock last October. She pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.

A judge will consider the request at a Sept. 5 hearing.

Mellor is serving her sentence at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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