Killer son tried to remove mother's brain

A man has admitted beating his mother to death and trying to remove her brain during an attack at their home on the Isle of Bute.

David McNeil, 40, who has mental health problems, claimed voices had told him to attack 73-year-old Mary-Rose McNeil at the house in Rothesay in June.

McNeil pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility.


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