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A man who bludgeoned his own grandmother to death while in a psychotic episode has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Hayden Leigh Kidd, 22, initially faced a jury trial at the Supreme Court in Ballarat, accused of murdering his grandmother Shirley Kidd.
Prosecutors told the jury he attacked the 68-year-old, striking her head and torso with a garden mattock, at her Darley home west of Melbourne.
She was found with 'critical injuries' near her carport at about 10.30pm.
Hayden Leigh Kidd, 22, pleaded guilty to manslaughter accused of murdering his grandmother at her Darley home in May 2022
Ms Kidd could not be revived and died at the scene.
Neighbours heard screaming just before