A woman claims she killed a man, whose mutilated body was found near a busy train line, because she feared for her own life.

Kasha McIver, 39, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her housemate Matthew Warrington in the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday alongside her co-offender Dylan Wyatt, 38.

Brendan Dalton, 54, was also found guilty of the same offence at trial in June.

Mr Warrington was killed sometime between July 16 and July 18, 2023, during a violent assault at a Chadstone home in Melbourne's southeast.

McIver and Wyatt were seen on CCTV footage entering the property through a side window shortly before 10am on July 16.

There was limited evidence about what happened next but crown prosecutor David Glynn told the court the couple killed Mr Warrington in an "unlawful and dang

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