Phillip Lawrence Smith Obituary
Rachel Brand QC, defending, told the judge that Smith had indicated to her on Tuesday that he wanted to change his plea and on Wednesday that he wanted the charges read to him again. He knocked over his third victim, Carol Jordan, with his car as she walked to work at a care home. He had befriended both women in The Rainbow pub in the Digbeth area of Birmingham, where he found casual work and operated as an unlicensed taxi driver for customers. "You should clearly have faced up like a man at the overwhelming nature of the Crown's case against you but you chose to put the victims' families through misery which you compounded by this trial." Detectives matched the tyre marks from his car, which had four different types of tyre, to the Worcestershire murder scene and to Corcoran's body, over which he had driven. Paintwork and fragments of glass found on Jordan's body matched those from Smith's car, including a broken light cluster which he had thrown into...