A Woman Who Hitched A Ride On A Mobility Scooter From An Old Man With Parkinsons Steals It From Him, Leaving Him In The Freezing Cold

A woman who stole a vulnerable man’s mobility scooter, dragged him along the ground and “cruelly” left him to die in freezing conditions has been jailed.

Kimberley Ann Hawkins, 41, previously admitted killing Neil Shadwick after taking his scooter outside a Tesco superstore in Gloucestershire on 22 January last year.

Hawkins sped away on the scooter, dragging the father-of-two as he desperately clung on for up to a minute, before later dumping the vehicle on Bisley Old Road in Stroud, where a member of the public found it at about 8 am.

Mr Shadwick, 63, who used his mobility scooter as his mode of transport, was left overnight in sub-zero temperatures and found unresponsive in the car park on Stratford Road, Stroud, hours later at 6 am. He later died in hospital.

Gloucestershire Police described the actions of the defendant as “sickening” and said she knew Mr. Shadwick, who had severe Parkinson’s, was “extremely vulnerable”.