A woman who killed her terminally ill father has been spared an immediate prison sentence by a judge who told her: “I recognise I have taken a merciful course.” Dr Lisa Davenport, 55, smothered Barrie Davenport, 88, with a pillow at his home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in October 2022. Oxford crown court heard Mr Davenport had been suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and was in a great deal of pain during his final few hours of life. Dr Davenport had previously pleaded guilty to his manslaughter. Handing her a two-year suspended prison sentence, Judge Mr Justice Linden said he recognised
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