Woman, 41, charged with killing Parkinson’s sufferer, 63

A woman has been charged with killing a Parkinson’s sufferer who died after having his mobility scooter stolen in a Tesco car park. 

Kimberley Ann Hawkins, 41, is accused of killing 63-year-old Neil Shadwick on January 22 last year in Gloucestershire. 

Mr Shadwick was discovered unresponsive by a member of staff at the store on Stratford Road, Stroud, at around 6am. The temperature at the time he was found was minus four degrees. 

The disabled man died the same day after suffering a stroke at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. 

Kimberley Ann Hawkins, 41, (pictured) is accused of killing a disabled man who died in January last year

Neil Shadwick (pictured) died after his mobility scooter was stolen from him in a Tesco car park 

The scooter was found abandoned on Bisley Old Road in Stroud later the same day. 

Hawkins is expected to appear at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on May 15, Gloucestershire Police said. 

Hawkins was last year charged with aggravated vehicle taking at Gloucester Crown Court.