US EditionWoman who smothered terminally ill dad sentenced
- Lisa Davenport, age 55, received a suspended sentence at Oxford Crown Court for manslaughter on Friday.
- Barrie Davenport, age 88, suffered from terminal pancreatic cancer and was in great pain during his last hours.
- Lisa Davenport smothered her terminally ill father, Barrie, with a pillow at his Banbury retirement home around 7:00 on October 17, 2022.
- Davenport confessed to a neighbor and the retirement home manager; John Price KC noted the death would not have been discovered otherwise.
- Judge Linden gave Davenport a two-year suspended sentence, citing 'exceptional mitigating features' and ordering mental health and alcohol treatment.
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'Devoted Daughter' Spared Prison After Smothering Father
An English judge has declined to send a woman to prison for smothering her terminally ill father with a pillow, after a prosecutor said Lisa Davenport believed that the killing "was an act of mercy." She received a two-year suspended prison sentence in the death of Barrie Davenport, 88, at...
Daughter who smothered her terminally-ill father in ‘mercy killing’ avoids jail sentence
A woman who killed her terminally-ill father has been allowed to walk free from court with a two-year suspended sentence by a judge who told her: “I recognise I have taken a merciful course.”
Woman who suffocated terminally ill father with pillow ‘to end his pain’ spared jail
Judge recognises Lisa Davenport’s ‘merciful’ sentence as he warns: ‘I emphasise that however stressful the circumstances, no one is permitted to take matters into their own hands’
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