{"id":52579,"date":"2025-04-11T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/banbury-woman-sentenced-for-manslaughter-of-terminally-ill-dad\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:58:38","slug":"banbury-woman-sentenced-for-manslaughter-of-terminally-ill-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/banbury-woman-sentenced-for-manslaughter-of-terminally-ill-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Banbury woman sentenced for manslaughter of terminally ill dad"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lisa Davenport was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A woman described as a “devoted daughter” has received a suspended prison sentence after she admitted the manslaughter of her terminally ill father.<\/p>\n

Dr Lisa Davenport used a pillow to smother Barrie Davenport, 88, at the Foxhall Court retirement home in Banbury on 17 October 2022.<\/p>\n

Handing her a two-year suspended prison sentence, Judge Mr Justice Linden said: “I recognise I have taken a merciful course.”<\/p>\n

At a previous hearing, Davenport had denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Friday, Oxford Crown Court heard Mr Davenport had been suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer and was in a lot of pain during his final hours.<\/p>\n

John Price KC, prosecuting, said Davenport, of Middleton Cheney in Northamptonshire, had been “distressed by how her father appeared”.<\/p>\n

“This background might explain why a devoted daughter did what she did to her father that evening,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Barrie Davenport, 88, was found dead in at his retirement home in Banbury<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Price said staff at Mr Davenport’s retirement complex and a doctor did not initially suspect foul play because his death was expected to be imminent.<\/p>\n

“When the doctor certified his death at 22:00 on October 17 it was believed to be due to natural causes,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But that was not so, Mr Davenport had been in fact unlawfully killed by his daughter, this defendant Lisa Davenport.<\/p>\n

“At about 07:00 she had smothered her father with a pillow as he lay in his bed.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Davenport was found dead at the Foxhall Court retirement complex in Banbury <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Price said Davenport confessed an hour later to a neighbour and friend of her father what she had done and asked her not to say anything.<\/p>\n

The following morning she also told the manager of the retirement complex, who then reported it to the police.<\/p>\n

“Were it not for those confessions subsequently saying he had been unlawfully killed, it would have not been discovered,” Mr Price said.<\/p>\n

“The evidence suggests that following his terminal diagnosis this defendant was a devoted carer of her father as his health declined.<\/p>\n

“It is accurate to say that no one could have done more for a clearly dying parent than she did.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Need help? If you have been affected by this story the <\/i>BBC Action Line web page<\/i><\/a> features a list of organisations which are ready to provide support and advice.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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