A shopkeeper who bludgeoned his sleeping wife to death has been jailed.

Asghar Buksh hit Nasreen over the head at least five times with a heavy blunt object.

The 55-year-old was originally charged with murdering his wife but the Crown accepted his plea of guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide on the basis of diminished responsibility.

At the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Buksh was jailed for five and a half years.

The killing took place in the family home on Dixon Avenue in Govanhill, Glasgow, on September 24 last year.

Mrs Buksh, a mother-of-six, was killed sometime between 3.30am and 6.25am.

Buksh, who owns a business in Paisley, Renfrewshire, handed himself in to Cathcart Police Station just before 7am.

He told an officer: "I've come to hand myself in. I think my wife's dead. I hit her on the head. I did it."

Lord Burns told Buksh: "This case has tragic connotations for yourself, your family and obviously for your wife.

"I accept, as the Crown does, that you acted when your responsibility for your actions was diminished by reason of reactive stress disorder.

"I also take account of the fact you have no history of abusive behaviour to your wife prior to September 24 last year."

But the judge said the court could not overlook the nature of the assault carried out at a time when he must have known the victim was defenceless.

He said: "You have led, I think, a blameless life up until now and you have provided for your substantial family for many years and have contributed to society."

His defence counsel Sarak Livingstone said her client's amnesia around the killing was "absolutely genuine".

Previously, the court heard the couple lived in an "unhappy marriage", while Mrs Buksh had revealed she planned to leave her husband and move to Pakistan shortly before the incident.