A Dublin man living in Scotland has been found guilty of killing his mother during a visit she paid to him last Spring.
A jury's found James Dunleavy beheaded and dismembered Philomena Dunleavy, and buried her remains in a shallow grave on a hill in Edinburgh.
A harrowing 8 day trial heard how the 66-year-old may still have been alive, but unconscious, when her killer began to hack off her legs with knife and saw.
The 40-year-old Marino native - who denied the charges - will be assessed by psychiatrists before a judge decides if he can be sentenced.
A jury at the High Court in Edinburgh convicted him, by majority, of a reduced charge of culpable homicide. They also found him guilty of the attempted cover-up.
