UK - Doreen Virgo, 89, murdered by Mick Virgo, 81, in Care Home, New Costessey, 12 July 2019.

[PastTense]

"Officers were called to Grays Fair Court care home, in Dereham Road, New Costessey at 7.30pm on Friday, July 12 following reports a woman had been found dead inside the Norfolk County Council-run property.

Pending the formal opening of an inquest into the death, the woman has been provisionally identified as Doreen Virgo, 89 and from Mill Street in Buxton. A Home Office post-mortem examination conducted on Sunday showed she died from a compression of the neck.

Following a joint investigation by Norfolk and Suffolk Police, Mick Virgo, 81, of Mill Street, Buxton, has been charged with murder."
Man, 81, to appear in court charged with murder after death of woman at care home

 

[Ann Blyth]

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I posted these by way of updates, long story short, the accused is elderly and frail with dementia and has been judged to be unfit for trial. Apparently, a trial of facts took place instead, which is quite unusual, on 16 January 2020, the link below details this..

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Very sad and unusual case. He was found guilty during the trial of facts but due to his frailness and illness, he was made the subject of a hospital order.

 

[LadyL]

how terribly sad