A cleaner accused of murdering her 92-year-old Sydney client will face trial in January.
Hanny Papanicolaou, 38, is charged with murdering her client of one year, Marjorie Welsh, in her home in January 2019.
She previously denied the charge but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the basis of substantial impairment due to an abnormality of the mind, a plea rejected by the Crown.
In the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Robert Allan Hulme noted her trial was listed to begin in May but the date was vacated to enable further psychiatric reports to be obtained.
He was told neuropsychological tests had now been recommended and would take place in late July.
Her trial, which is estimated to run for three weeks, was set down for January 24.
Emergency services were called to Ms Welsh's home on the morning of January 2 after her personal panic alarm was activated.
They found her with stab wounds, a punctured lung and multiple fractures.
Pieces of blue pottery were embedded to the rear of her scalp, a local court was told in 2019.
Before being placed in an induced coma and dying, she allegedly told police: "The cleaner did it."
