Peter Brooks (right) has been charged in the slaying of fellow nursing home resident Joycelyn Dickson, 72, (left). Peter Brooks, 76, is on trial for the first-degree murder of Joycelyn Dickson, 72, and the attempted murder of Lourdes Missier, 91, at the Wexford long-term care home in Scarborough. There was a history of animosity between Brooks and three women: Dickson, Missier and Margaret Burke, the jury has heard. On the day she died, Dickson told an employee that she feared Brooks would kill her, the jury has heard. “He is now suffering (from a mental disorder) and was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of homicide.

Source: thestar November 20, 2016 17:58 UTC