Cleaner Hanny Papanicolaou to face murder trial over 92-year-old’s death

A Sydney cleaner will next year face trial over the alleged murder of her 92-year-old client.

A house cleaner alleged to have brutally stabbed and beaten her 92-year-old client to death will face trial for murder early next year.

Hanny Papanicolaou, 39, is alleged to have carried out a frenzied attack which led to the death of Marjorie Walsh inside the elderly woman’s Auburn home on January 2, 2019.

Ms Papanicolaou previously attempted to plead guilty to manslaughter due to substantial impairment on the grounds she suffered an abnormality of the mind.

However, that offer was rejected by the crown prosecution.

Cleaner Hanny Papanicolaou will face a murder trial for the alleged murder of her 92-year-old client next year. Picture: Supplied

She was on Friday arraigned in the NSW Supreme Court to face a three-week murder trial starting on January 24 next year.

Police were called to Ms Walsh’s home in Sydney’s inner west – where Ms Papanicolaou had worked as a cleaner for one year – after her personal panic alarm was activated.

She was found with pieces of pottery embedded in her scalp, the court has previously heard.

She was taken to hospital with a punctured lung, facial fractures, wounds to her torso as well as head and back lacerations before being placed in a coma.

She died seven weeks later on February 19.