A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of his carer, whose body he hid in his flooded home. David Walsh, 46, attacked Irene Mbugua with a brick at his address in Markby Road, Winson Green, in June last year.
The 46-year-old mother of four was discovered in the kitchen, partially covered by debris from a collapsed ceiling caused by an overflowing bath upstairs. Walsh, who has schizophrenia, had stopped taking his medication three months before the killing and had also taken cocaine.
Ms Mbugua's colleague raised the alarm after she failed to respond to calls. When police forced entry to the property, they found Walsh naked and screaming. He spat at, bit, and assaulted officers, who used PAVA spray to detain him.
Walsh pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility and four counts of assaulting an emergency worker. At Birmingham Crown Court, he was sentenced to life with a minimum of 12 years, minus time already served.
Justice Mark Wall KC described the attack as a 'brutal and motiveless killing', noting the profound impact on Ms Mbugua's family. Her teenage son said: 'My world was completely shattered... I lost my world, my everything I was living for.'
