Police looking for the suspect within the homicide of a girl who was shot useless exterior a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day have recovered a physique from the River Thames.
Lisa Smith, 43, from Slough, was killed close to The Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt simply after 7pm on February 14.
Detectives named Edvard Stockings, or Smith, because the suspect and his automobile containing a gun was later traced to the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge on the Dartford Crossing 17 miles away.
He’s believed to have entered the water there and was presumed useless.
Kent Police mentioned in an replace in the present day: ‘At round 3.45pm on Friday, March 7, a physique was positioned close to Rainham, Essex.
‘Formal identification has not but taken place.
‘Nevertheless, the person’s household have been knowledgeable.’
Lisa’s son, Teejay Smith, paid tribute to his mom describing her as ‘the perfect’.
Writing on Fb, he mentioned: ‘My expensive previous mum by no means be one other to stroll in her footwear the perfect.’
One other relative who visited the scene to see the floral tributes mentioned: ‘She was a lovely woman and a beautiful mom. We don’t know what’s occurred. No person does. It’s nonetheless a shock.’
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Haidresser Ryan Paul Anthony, who owns Paul Anthony Hair Salon in Iver, the place Lisa had been a buyer since 2017 mentioned: ‘Sending our love and prayers to Lisa Smith’s household at this terrible unhappy time.
‘You turned our salon into your individual stage from the second you walked by means of the doorways in 2017 and made everybody snigger together with your wonderful character.
‘You was one in 1,000,000.’
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