Jian Chen was arraigned in the NSW Supreme Court today, where the Crown accepted her guilty plea to the less serious offence of the manslaughter of Xian Peng, 48, in February 2011.
The matter was put over to August 10 for a sentencing hearing.
The then 48-year-old Chen was arrested last year when she appeared in Burwood Local Court.
According to a statement of facts before that court, police said she had used sleeping pills to spike the soup she gave her former partner at her North Ryde home on February 9.
Peng had only recently returned to Australia from China with a new girlfriend, the statement of facts said.
Once Mr Peng was asleep, Chen allegedly bound his hands and feet and stabbed him a number of times in the neck and groin, before cutting his penis and scrotum.
After he fell asleep on her couch she tied his hands and feet before cutting off his penis and stabbing him in the neck and groin in her North Ryde home.
She called 000 for an ambulance, but her former partner died in hospital from his injuries.
In the New South Wales Supreme Court, Chen has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
The Crown accepted her guilty plea to the lesser charge.
The businesswoman, who opened a seafood import business Ocean Meats Australia in 2009, sat staring ahead in the dock as she entered her guilty plea.
She remains in custody until she is sentenced.
Her North Ryde neighbours have previously described her as quiet and reserved.
The matter was put over to August 10 for a sentencing hearing.
The then 48-year-old Chen was arrested last year when she appeared in Burwood Local Court.
According to a statement of facts before that court, police said she had used sleeping pills to spike the soup she gave her former partner at her North Ryde home on February 9.
Peng had only recently returned to Australia from China with a new girlfriend, the statement of facts said.
Once Mr Peng was asleep, Chen allegedly bound his hands and feet and stabbed him a number of times in the neck and groin, before cutting his penis and scrotum.
After he fell asleep on her couch she tied his hands and feet before cutting off his penis and stabbing him in the neck and groin in her North Ryde home.
She called 000 for an ambulance, but her former partner died in hospital from his injuries.
In the New South Wales Supreme Court, Chen has pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
The Crown accepted her guilty plea to the lesser charge.
The businesswoman, who opened a seafood import business Ocean Meats Australia in 2009, sat staring ahead in the dock as she entered her guilty plea.
She remains in custody until she is sentenced.
Her North Ryde neighbours have previously described her as quiet and reserved.
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