Woman gunned down by her husband on Valentine's Day was trying to flee marriage

AWOMAN was shot and killed by her husband outside a pub on Valentine’s Day after trying to end the relationship, an inquest heard.

- By Stanley Murphy-Jones

Lisa Smith, 43, was shot twice in the neck earlier this year.

She had told her sister she was leaving her husband Edward Smith that day, and had got on a train from their home in Slough, Berkshire, to stay with family in Kent.

But Smith tracked her to The Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt, Kent, that evening before blocking her friend’s car with his and firing four shots with a handgun, Kent and Medway Coroner’s Court heard.

Yesterday, area coroner Katrina Hepburn concluded Ms Smith died from an unlawful killing and found “requisite intent from Edward Smith to kill her or cause her really serious harm”.