Elderly woman accused of killing son at Greensborough home tells magistrate she’s too ‘ill’ to go to court

An elderly woman accused of killing her son at a home in Melbourne’s north-east has told a magistrate that she was too ill to attend court.

Erica Heddergott, 81, today appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of her 50-year-old son, William Charles Heddergott,

Ms Heddergott spoke on the phone from the Austin Hospital after being charged on Thursday night.

“Yes hello, I’m holding the phone at the moment,” Ms Heddergott told the…