A homeless man accused of battering a woman to death with a mallet days after she took him in has pleaded guilty to her murder.
Victoria Adams, 37, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London, on February 9 after police were called to a report of a man attempting to break in to the property in Coulter Road.
She was found face down in a bedroom with a black bin bag over her head which was covered by a pillow.
Ms Adams had suffered at least 10 separate injuries to the back and side of the head from being struck with a blunt object, said to be a mallet found with her blood and DNA on it.
Her attacker, Apapale Adoum, 39, who was arrested at the scene, had met her on February 6 when he was living in a homeless shelter.
