Hammer murder accused pleads guilty A MAN accused of a hammer murder in Devonport last year has changed his plea to guilty. Peter William Leary has appeared in the Tasmanian Supreme Court in Burnie and changed the not guilty plea he entered in February. The 32-year-old was charged with the murder of Neil Warren Harwood, from Port Sorell, east of Devonport, in December. Mr Harwood, 54, was found dead in bushland in the state's north after he had been staying at a woman's unit in Devonport while she was away. Leary will be sentenced on May 15. Another man, Thomas Rundle Mead, has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory after the fact.