A DANGEROUSLY violent killer who almost decapitated his widowed mother by bludgeoning her with a table, has been sent to hospital indefinitely.

Andrew Tarry smashed his 66-year-old mother, Mary Helen, over the head with the table during a row causing "an horrendous wound".

But then he decided to "finish her off" because be thought she would end up with brain damage.

"I thought I would sooner have a dead mother rather than a brain damaged mother," he later told police who had burst in to the couple's home and discovered Mrs Tarry's body.

At Manchester Crown Court, 34-year-old Tarry admitted the manslaughter of his mother on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

He was told by the city's top judge, the Recorder Judge Rhys Davies: "I have read the psychiatric reports in this case and it is clear that you are a very sick man.

"Unhappily it is also the view of the medical men that you will, if released, be a danger to the public."

Michael Shorrock QC, prosecuting, said police first learned of Mrs Tarry's death when her son walked in to a solicitor's office in Bolton and confessed to killing her.

Officers went to the couple's bungalow on Langham Close, Sharples, and broke in. The walls of the hallway were covered with blood and Mrs Tarry's body was discovered partially covered by a rug. "Her head was covered with a plastic bin liner and she had suffered a gross mutilation of the skull including a partial decapitation," said Mr Shorrock.

He added that Mrs Tarry's injuries were so extensive she could only be identified by dental records.

When quizzed, Tarry said he had argued with his mother and he grabbed her round the throat. She had scratched his hand and face and he picked up the table and hit her over the head.

"He described how she dropped, and pleaded with him to get an ambulance because of the blood. He then described looking at the horrendous wound and thought he should finish her off because she would be brain damaged."?

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