Judge offers 'merciful' suspended sentence to Lisa Davenport, who smothered Barrie Davenport in October 2022 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 Davenport, 88, with a pillow at his home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in October 2022.