A Melbourne man who bashed a young woman to death in a park has been ordered to serve 25 years at a mental health facility.
Henry Hammond was sentenced to a 25-year custodial supervision order in the Supreme Court of Victoria today, after being found not guilty last year of murdering Courtney Herron by way of mental impairment.
Ms Herron, 25, was found dead by dog walkers in Royal Park at Parkville in the city on May 25 in 2019, with injuries described by police as "horrendous".
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A court last year heard Ms Herron asked Hammond "are you going to kill me?" before he bludgeoned her to death for 50 minutes with a tree branch.
Hammond blamed his schizophrenic delusions for killing the 25-year-old.
Ms Herron had been couch-surfing and sleeping rough while struggling with drug and mental health issues at the time of her death.
Hammond will be transported from Port Phillip prison to the Thomas Embling mental health hospital.
His lawyers pushed for his order to be reviewed in three to five years, instead of being reviewed three months before his planned release in 2044, but the request was knocked back as Justice Phillip Priest could not see "things changing" with Hammond's mental state in the near future.
Hammond's custodial order has been backdated to the date of his arrest in May 2019.
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