Unbelievable: See the 'Evil Man' Who Beat 81-year-old Woman to Death, Burned Her Body in Her Own Garden (Photos)

Tautrydas Narbutas, a 24-year-old man has admitted killing an 81-year-old widow in her woodland home before setting fire to her body in the garden, Metro UK reports.

The old woman identified as Albertina Choules was found dead outside her rural home in the Buckinghamshire countryside last July, after desperately calling the police to report an intruder.

The call handler could hear the voice of a man in the background before the call cut off.

 

According to Metro UK, Tautrydas Narbutas, today admitted hitting the elderly Buddhist over the head with a blunt instrument, before dragging her into the garden and burning her body.

 

Police officers had arrived at the property to find Narbutas standing by a fire, with Choules’ charred body in her garden, at around 6.30am on July 6 last year.

 

The prosecution accepted a guilty plea to manslaughter, not murder, because he suffers from a ‘psychotic disorder’ that gives him diminished responsibility.

 

Narbutas also pleaded guilty to affray for his ‘abnormal’ behaviour at the crime scene, where he attacked two Thames Valley Police officers with a machete. Two charges of attempted grievous bodily harm have since been dropped.

Psychiatrists for the CPS and Narbutas’ legal counsel agreed that his responsibility for the disturbing crime was ‘severely diminished’.

 

Narbutas, from High Wycombe, appeared at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday via video link from HMP Woodhill.

 

He spoke only to enter his pleas. Speaking through a Lithuanian translator he said: ‘Not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter.’

Prosecutor Alan Blake told the court: ‘We’ve carefully reviewed all the evidence and in particular the medical evidence. The mental abnormality is identified as arising from a psychotic disorder.

 

‘With that consensus among the medical experts and the evidence of abnormal behaviour at the scene when the defendant was arrested we do not consider there is a realist prospect the jury would reject that medical evidence.

 

‘Accordingly, we consider it proper to accept the plea that has been offered.’

 

Choules, known fondly as ‘Tina in the woods’, had spent decades transforming her £2million Marlow gardens into a sculpture park with religious shrines.

 

The Buddhist grew all of her own vegetables, and even chopped her own wood with a chainsaw, despite her old age. She had no electricity in her home, and is thought to have used gas lanterns instead.

 

Villagers could visit her estate as part of a Buddhist trail she created with her husband Michael, a fellow Buddhist convert, who died in 2004 after battling cancer.

 

A statement from her family after her death said: ‘Tina was incredibly special, as was her simple, self-sufficient way of life with no electricity, television or washing machine.

 

‘She never liked to sit still and worked tirelessly to maintain her beautiful garden and produce all year round.

 

‘Even in her old age she would chop trees, dig up flowerbeds and wrestle with her lovely dog, Georgie.

 

‘She was completely selfless in giving away her fantastic fruit and vegetables to friends and family as well as sharing her wonderful Buddhist Stupas (that she built with her own hands) with those that chose to walk in the woodland.

 

‘Her friends and family in both the UK and Italy will miss her very dearly.’