A pensioner charged with causing the death of a five-month-old has been found not guilty by reason of insanity because of her undiagnosed dementia.
Shelagh Robertson, 75, was on trial accused of causing death by careless driving of Louis Thorold in a fatal collision when an oncoming van went on to the pavement and hit his pushchair and his mother, Rachel Thorold.
The jurors found that Ms Robertson’s dementia, which had gone undetected and untreated during the Covid pandemic, had affected her driving.
