Overview

• Evidence showed Lisa Smith told her sister she was leaving her marriage and traveled from Slough to Kent on February 14 before being located at The Three Horseshoes in Knockholt.
• Police testified that Edward Smith blocked in her friend’s car and fired four shots with a handgun; the third shot caused fatal neck injuries and a fourth was fired at close range.
• Despite CPR from bystanders and emergency crews, she was pronounced dead at 7:42 p.m.
• After the shooting, he sent voice notes saying “I’ve shot Lisa, she’s dead” and was seen on the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge; his body was recovered on March 7 and the coroner recorded suicide.
• The court heard he had a prior diagnosis of non-organic psychosis and recent clinical contact, and that he later sought a knife in Maidstone while voicing intent toward a man named Roger Lee.