Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city A man who punched a woman with dementia in the face 'like a boxer' when she asked him to stop hitting his dog has walked free from court.
At the time, Joy Watson was wearing a badge which read: "Please be patient, I have dementia." Her ordeal began she pulled into a picnic lay-by for a cup of tea.
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Two months after the incident, haunted by the image of a fist coming into her face, she tried to take her own life. Joy, 62, from Eccles, Salford was diagnosed with dementia eight years ago and forced to give up her job as a
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