But during an eight-day trial, when jurors heard damning pathology evidence showing that Stanley Smith died from being choked, the defendant was unanimously found guilty of murder. “The prosecution say that Stanley Smith was particularly vulnerable for a number of reasons,” said the prosecutor. Medical evidence also showed how, several years before the killing, Brian Smith had told a medical professional that he experienced "uncontrollable rages." Nick Johnson KC, for Smith, challenged the prosecution submission about the defendant resorting to a “false narrative” in his defence. Or knowing he was dead you began to lay a false narrative, blaming the violence on him."