He was kneeling next to the lifeless body of his 73-year-old father Stanley. The barrister repeatedly confronted Smith with the brutal facts provided by a Home Office pathologist, proving beyond doubt that Stanley Smith was choked to death. “Within in minutes of choking your own father to death you began to lay a false narrative of what happened. The lies told by Brian Smith, said the Judge, showed him to be “callous and calculating.” (Image: Cumbria Police)After his last police interview, the trial was told, Smith had asked an officer to rehome his dog, prompting the detective to ask why.