‘Crazy monster’ guilty of backpacker’s murder

A Melbourne man who acted like a “crazy monster” as he stomped repeatedly on the head of a Dublin backpacker has pleaded guilty to murder.

Luke James Wentholt, aged 31, pleaded guilty in Victoria’s supreme court yesterday to the murder of housemate David Greene in their St Kilda East house last August.

He also pleaded guilty to recklessly causing serious injury to another housemate, David Byas.