Robert Cordingly, a 57 year old man with Asperger syndrome from Bradford, England, was recently given a life sentence for smothering his 91 year old father in their home last January. After smothering his father with a pillow, Cordingly then left to locate a uniformed police officer outside a supermarket and confessed the crime. Cordingly, who had lived with his father all his life and was his father's sole source for assistance, apparently acted out of desperation or frustration in dealing with his father who may have begun suffering from dementia. Read more about it at dailymail.co.uk here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218068/Robert-Cordingley-Life-sentence-Aspergers-sufferer-smothered-91-year-old-father-death.html
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