Mother avoids jail for killing son with Down Syndrome
Wendolyn Markcrow, aged 67, suffocated her son Patrick after his violent and loud behaviour escalated, robbing her of sleep and driving her to despair, Oxford Crown Court heard.
Late on Easter Monday, after sleeping drugs had failed to suppress her son’s noisy insomnia, Ms Markcrow smothered him with a plastic bag at the family home in Long Creedon, Buckinghamshire.
