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CPS updates guidance on mercy killings and failed suicide pacts

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has updated its homicide guidance, specifically addressing mercy killings and failed suicide pacts, in order to increase transparency on “how prosecutors think and decide”. The new guidelines aim to give ...

05 Oct 2023 at 00:01

My family have paid ‘heavy price’, says mercy killing daughter

A woman who killed her terminally ill father as an act of mercy has spoken of the “heavy price” her family has paid after she walked free from court with a suspended prison sentence. Dr Lisa Davenport, 55, smothered Barrie Davenport, 88, ...

11 Apr 2025 at 14:33

‘Mercy killing’ daughter avoids jail after smothering terminally-ill father

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.” Dr Lisa Davenport, 55, smothered Barrie ...

11 Apr 2025 at 13:45

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