The ACT Supreme Court has heard a 23-year-old Canberra man admitted to police he killed his mother two years ago.It is alleged Glen Porritt stabbed his mother, Nanette Porritt, 57 times in the family’s Chapman home.
Mrs Porritt’s husband and daughter are alleged to have found her in her bedroom on December 21, 2005.
Crown Prosector William Dawe QC told the court, Glen Porritt admitted to police in March 2007 that he killed his mother.
The court heard he then took police to Lake Burley Griffin and showed them where he had buried his mother’s watch.