Man killed own great-grandmother

Jamie Limbrick will now be examined by psychiatric doctors

An 18-year-old man has admitted raping and killing his great-grandmother at her Gloucestershire home.

Jamie Limbrick was 17 when he attacked Marjorie Davies, 92, in September 2003 in a farmhouse in Forge Lane, Upleadon.

He had previously denied charges of rape and murder but pleaded guilty to rape at Bristol Crown Court on Tuesday.

His plea of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility was accepted by the Crown. He has been sent to Broadmoor hospital for assessment.

Limbrick, of no fixed address, will be seen by psychiatric doctors and psychologists for a month and may then be made subject of an interim hospital order under the Mental Health Act.

Sentencing was adjourned to a date to be fixed.

The body of Mrs Davis was found in the farmhouse on 3 September, 2003.

The property, owned by Gillian and Malcolm Limbrick, Mrs Davis's daughter and son-in-law, had been badly damaged by fire.