A male psychiatric nurse on Thursday pleaded guilty to the murder of his Guyanese-born girlfriend who burnt to death in her north London home last year.
According to a BBC report, Aiah Tondoneh, 43, from Claire Court, Shoot Up Hill, Kilburn, north London, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to murdering of fifty-year-old Donna Drepaul.
Officers found Drepaul suffering from severe burns at her home in Clifton Court, Finsbury Park, on July, 2 2010.
She was taken to the Royal London Hospital where she died two days later. A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as burns. Other news report described Tondoneh as an insanely jealous drunk when he committed the act.
Drepaul worked at University College Hospital in Euston.
It was reported that the Guyanese-born Drepaul leaves a son, Sherman, 29, who is expected to be at court with other relatives when his mother’s killer is sentenced.
She was attacked and set on fire with petrol on the 17th floor of her home block and desperately tried to get help by banging on the doors of neighbours but they were too scared to answer at 4 am and seconds later she plunged to the ground.
Although he admitted the full offence of murder, Tondoneh claims that he did not have the intent to kill. That issue will be decided later.
