A St. John’s man has changed his plea to guilty in connection with the death of his grandmother more than three years ago.

Thirty-one-year-old Brandon Tobin was charged with manslaughter after 82-year-old Mildred Brake died in her Mitchell Court home on March 16th, 2022.

But in Supreme Court this afternoon he admitted causing his grandmother’s death when he attacked her in a drug-fuelled rage on the night in question.

The autopsy concluded she died of blunt force trauma to her chest from someone stomping or kneeling on her.

According to the agreed statement of facts, the effect of the cocaine and half dozen other drugs in Tobin’s system was exacerbated by seizures caused by a dirt bike crash a year earlier.

Court heard that Tobin knew such a mixture drove him to be angry, disoriented

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