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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

Woman who suffocated terminally ill father with pillow ‘to end his pain’ spared jail

Lisa Davenport smothered her father on the evening of 17 October 2022 in a so-called mercy killing - (Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

A woman who suffocated her terminally ill father with a pillow in his bed to end his “delirious” levels of pain has been spared jail.

“Devoted daughter” Dr Lisa Davenport smothered her father Barrie Davenport, 88, on the evening of 17 October 2022 at his home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in a so-called mercy killing which, she said, her family had “paid a very heavy price” over.

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