An Esperance teenager has pleaded guilty to murdering her grandfather by striking the 89-year-old with a frying pan on Anzac Day last year.
Tayla Louise Perkin, 19, admitted the offence when she appeared briefly in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court via video link from Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison.
She has been in custody since she was arrested at the time of the murder last April, when she was aged 18.
Perkin's grandfather was taken to Esperance District Hospital with head injuries after he was hit with the frying pan during an altercation at his home on Randell Street.
However, he died a short time later.
Perkin was originally charged with grievous bodily harm in circumstances of aggravation and wept throughout a brief initial appearance in Esperance Magistrate's Court a day after her grandfather's death.
The charge was upgraded by police to murder just days later.
No further details about the case were given in court on Wednesday and Perkin was remanded in custody.
She will reappear in the Supreme Court later this month, when a sentencing date may be set.
Esperance, on Western Australia's southern coast, is about 700 kilometres south-east of Perth.
