Samantha Nuttall, 49, was charged with homicide after Trevor Hilton, 75, was pronounced useless at Hargreaves Home on Ormrod Road in Bolton city centre on Friday July 17 this 12 months.
This week the case was introduced earlier than Bolton Crown Court docket forward of a trial anticipated to happen subsequent 12 months.
Nuttall was not required to attend and didn’t seem earlier than the temporary listening to, which primarily mentioned authorized and administrative issues that can not be reported at this stage.
She has but to enter any pleas.
Vanessa Thompson KC, prosecuting, stated that additional court docket date can be required in December which might be “most likely a really, very brief administrative listening to”.
She and Rebecca Filletti, defending, agreed to a sequence of dates for proof to be introduced earlier than the court docket and mentioned.
The Honorary Recorder for Bolton Choose Nicholas Clarke KC dominated {that a} additional briefing listening to will happen on Thursday December 3.
Police had been referred to as to Hargreaves Home, a block of flats on Omrod Road, off Trinity Approach within the centre of Bolton, on the morning of Friday July 17.
Nuttall, of Bradford Road, the Haulgh, was arrested and remanded into custody in July.
She made her first look earlier than Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court docket on Monday July 20 and was not requested for any pleas forward of her look within the crown court docket.
After Mr Hilton’s dying in July, a household spokesperson stated: “Trevor was an expensive father, grandfather and brother to his siblings whose life was taken far too quickly.
“Trevor was such a joker, and we are going to miss the nice instances and can cherish the reminiscences that we have now.
“Trevor had a coronary heart of gold and would assist anybody in want, he’ll all the time be in our ideas.
“The lack of Trevor has left a gap in our household which can’t be stuffed and we’re heartbroken and want to request privateness while we are attempting to come back to phrases with what has occurred.”