Sydney - An Australian whose father died when a homemade bomb blew up in his face pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday in a Sydney court. Jonathon Lowe, 24, at first denied any knowledge of the bomb that killed Barry Lowe but later told police that he and a friend had assembled it.
Police initially thought the 67-year-old animal scientist's ride-on mower had blown up underneath him, but forensic evidence changed their minds.
The court was told Barry Lowe might have been trying to dismantle the bomb when it exploded in May last year.
Jonathon Lowe told police that the pair had built the bomb for someone else and that his father had found it. He is to be sentenced in December.
