Horror moment woman tells police 'I just killed my mother' after pensioner strangled
The trial is ongoing.
A woman has admitted to killing her pensioner mother with a belt - but denies her murder. Stefania Glowka told police “I just killed my mother” after allegedly strangling her to death on Christmas Day. Her mother was 86-years-old. Now, Stefania, 64, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of murdering in what prosecutors have called a “very deliberate act of violence.”
While in court, footage played which showed Glowka greeting police at her flat door covered in blood and calmly said: “Good morning – I just killed my mother.”
The court heard how police found her elderly mother unresponsive on a mattress on the floor of the bedroom. She also told emergency responders “I killed my mother” before she said she felt a “failure” and “would have preferred to die.”
The court heard that Stefania had reached breaking point after caring for her mother, who had schizophrenia, for 17 years.
Simon Jones, who opened the case for the prosecution, said there was “no dispute” she had unlawfully killed her mother due to what she had said on the phone. Stefania denied murdering her mother at their home in Devizes, Wiltshire, on Christmas Day, but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Simon said: “That guilty plea does not go far enough, it does not properly reflect the defendant’s true level of responsibility.
“The prosecution say that however desperate the situation was that the defendant felt she was in, there is no lawful justification for what she did.”
The court also saw a letter written by Stefania which said she intended to take her own life after killing her mother.
However, her plan to take her own life did not work despite stabbing herself in the stomach and neck, reports BBC.
The note read: “I killed my mum as I cannot continue to look after her and I love her too much to put her into an institutionalised care. I also cannot envisage life on my own, old age and inevitable health issues.”
A post-mortem later concluded the victim died from injuries that were “consistent with the account of there having been a period of neck compression prior to death.”
Simon said: “Whilst she had always just kept going, she said that she just could not do so any longer.
“She described it as a spur of the moment decision to end it all and felt the easiest way to 'let her go' was using a belt to strangle her and sharp objects to then hurt herself.”
Stefania has admitted to killing her mother but denied murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The trial continues.
