THE chilling moment a woman calmly admitted killing her 86-year-old mother with a belt has been played to a court.

Stefania Glowka told police “I just killed my mother” after allegedly strangling her to death on Christmas Day.

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Glowka told police: “I just killed my mother” Credit: Wiltshire Police / SWNS

She attempted to take her own life by stabbing herself in the neck and stomach Credit: Wiltshire Police / SWNS

The 64-year-old is on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of murdering her elderly mother with a belt in what prosecutors described as a “very deliberate act of violence.”

Footage played in court shows the shocking moment Glowka greeted police at her flat door covered in blood and calmly said: “Good morning – I just killed my mother.”

The jury was told that police found her elderly mother unresponsive on a mattress on the floor of the bedroom.

While sitting on the stairwell, she also told paramedics “I killed my mother”, before adding she felt a “failure” and “would have preferred to die.”

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Her mother was found unresponsive on a mattress in the bedroom Credit: Wiltshire Police / SWNS

The prosecution said: “the guilty plea does not go far enough” Credit: Wiltshire Police / SWNS

The court heard she reached breaking point after caring for her mother, who had schizophrenia, for 17 years.

Opening the case for the prosecution, Simon Jones said there was “no dispute” she had unlawfully killed her mother due to what she had said and done but pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility.

He added: “That guilty plea does not go far enough, it does not properly reflect the defendant’s true level of responsibility.

“The prosecution say that however desperate the situation was that the defendant felt she was in, there is no lawful justification for what she did.”

The jury was shown a letter written by Mrs Glowka left for a close friend in the flat which prosecutors said revealed she intended to take her own life after killing her mother.

But her plan to take her own life failed despite stabbing herself in the stomach and neck, even “wiggling” the knife around.

Mr Jones told the court this provided a “significant insight” into her thinking and plan.

It read: “I killed my mum as I cannot continue to look after her and I love her too much to put her into an institutionalised care.

“I also cannot envisage life on my own, old age and inevitable health issues.”

She then outlines how the state will benefit from her inheritance as well as her funeral wishes.

Mr Jones added: “It would seem from this letter that the defendant was getting her affairs in order prior to carrying out the killing.

“We say that thought process is important when it comes to considering the defendant’s state of mind at the time.”

Glowka is later seen on police bodyworn footage being treated for neck injuries and lying in an ambulance while she is arrested for murder.

She responds by asking: “Does this mean that my mother is dead?”

A post- mortem later concluded the victim died from injuries that were “consistent with the account of there having been a period of neck compression prior to death.”

“Significantly it was also concluded that “this would have been forceful and sustained.”

During police interview, Glowka told cops she was an only child to a single mother and told officers: “It was always just the two of us.”

The defendant had moved to the UK from Poland in December 1994, where she studied for small animal veterinary and then worked as a self-employed vet in Devizes, Wiltshire.

Her mum visited the UK regularly from 1992 before moving permanently in 2004 when Poland joined the EU.

She also outlined her mother’s worsening medical issues.

Mr Jones added: “Whilst she had always just kept going, she said that she just could not do so any longer.

“She described it as a spur of the moment decision to end it all and felt the easiest way to “let her go” was using a belt to strangle her and sharp objects to then hurt herself.”

Glowka denied murder in court due and claims she was suffering from an “abnormality of mental function.”

Mr Jones told the jury: “You may feel sympathy for the defendant. You may conclude that she was struggling, overwhelmed, depressed and unable to cope with the pressures of caring for her mother and seeing her health decline.

“But sympathy is not the test as to whether this was a murder.

“It was a deliberate act: placing a belt around her mother’s neck and tightening it, despite her mother’s attempts in vain, and without enough strength, to grab at the belt and loosen it.”

“That belt was tightened with forceful and sustained force until Tamara Glowka died.

“We say those planned actions, together with the careful means by which the defendant sought to put her affairs in order, after this, show that she was in fact fully capable of understanding what she was doing.”

Glowka has admitted to killing her mother but denied murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The trial is set continue over the next seven days.