Pensioner on trial over death of baby ‘had undiagnosed Alzheimer’s’

Shelagh Robertson intends to enter a plea of insanity over the death of Louis Thorold in January last year.

A pensioner accused of causing the death by careless driving of a baby boy, who was in a pram being pushed along the pavement by his mother, will say she had undiagnosed Alzheimer’s disease at the time and is to...