Devoted son smothered dementia suffering mother

A full time carer has admitted smothering his 89-year-old mother to death while she was bed bound suffering from dementia. Kevin Pearce, 59, killed his mother Eileen Pearce in the family home in Barton Close, Bexleyheath on 5 June 2021. Pearce was the sole carer to his mother and told police he killed her to ‘end her suffering.’ Police were called to a report of a non-responsive woman at 3.10pm and Mrs Pearce was pronounced dead at the scene. A…