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Kevin Pearce, 60, was the sole carer for his 89-year-old mum Eileen Pearce for more than a decade until he killed her at the home they shared in Bexleyheath in what the judge called "an act of mercy"
The defendant told officers that he had put his mother ‘out of her suffering’ with a wet flannel
Kevin Pearce had looked after dementia and osteoporosis sufferer Eileen Pearce, 89, for 10 years before he killed her at their home in Bexleyheath, south London, in June 2021
Kevin Pearce, 60, had looked after dementia and osteoporosis sufferer Eileen Pearce for 10 years before he killed her at their home in Bexleyheath, south London, in June 2021.
Kevin Pearce pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility after saying he had no recollection of killing his mum Eileen.