Son murdered his mother, painted her toe nails and brought her meals

A son murdered his elderly mother, kept her dead body at home for six weeks, painted her toe nails and brought her meals, a court heard. Dominic Whitton, 42, repeatedly beat 75-year-old artist Pepita Garcia, leaving her with 76 fractures in the weeks leading up to her death, while on police bail for controlling and coercive behaviour. Ms Garcia’s decomposing body was eventually found in the bedroom which had been turned into a shrine by her son with incense burners,…