Overview
- Police say Stefania Glowka strangled her 86-year-old mother with a belt on Christmas Day and later attempted to take her own life before calling officers.
- Officers found a letter and documents at the home in which Glowka said she could no longer continue as her mother’s sole carer and had killed her out of love.
- Glowka pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility and denied murder, and a jury at Bristol Crown Court acquitted her of the murder charge.
- Judge Julian Lambert sentenced Glowka to eight years in prison and ordered that she serve two thirds of the term after hearing prosecution claims the act was deliberate.
- Two psychiatrists concluded Glowka suffered recurrent depressive disorder and coverage of the case highlights strains on long-term informal carers and the role of mental-health evidence at sentencing.