The judicial authorities in London are waiting for a psychiatric report to establish the sentence against the man who pleaded guilty to strangling his grandmother to death before raping the corpse on at least two occasions.
On 24 March of last year, Donovan Miller, aged 31, strangled Phyllis Grant, aged 76, and hit her on the head with a vase at her residence in Kent Street, Plaistow. He then had sex with the body twice.
Miller, a cocaine addict, confessed to the paramedics who arrived at the scene.
“I raped her too, for what it’s worth, yesterday and today,” added the abuser.
Prior to the murder, Grant had been released from the hospital after recovering from COVID-19.
Her neighbors remember her as a regular churchgoer and matriarch of the community, according to the Daily Mail report.
The man also told the police that he was addicted to cocaine, but that he had no mental problems. Through a camera from a psychiatric unit at the John Howard Centre, Miller denied the murder charge, but admitted to involuntary manslaughter and sexual penetration of a corpse.
The Royal Prosecution Service accepted the statement the man’s conviction based on the findings of three psychiatrists.
Miller is expected to be sentenced next month. Although he could spend time in prison, he could also be sentenced to stay hospitalized under the guidelines of diminished responsibility.