Cab crash sparked Barbara Windsor’s dementia, says husband

Barbara Windsor and Scott Mitchell

(Picture: Dave Benett)

Dame Barbara Windsor’s widower Scott Mitchell traces her struggle with dementia back to a black cab ride gone wrong.

He recalls that, when he and Windsor were travelling through London by black cab in 2002, the driver was star-struck by the EastEnders legend. Attempting to dodge a van, he braked too late and sent Babs “headfirst into the partition.”