A mother accused of murdering her 14-month-old daughter told a judge she will never stop grieving.

Sadia Ahmed, 28, denies murdering Inaya Ahmed on April 17, 2016, at the family home at Bernisdale Drive, Glasgow, by suffocating her with a pillow.

She has told the jury her daughter choked on a piece of toast.

Ahmed was giving evidence at the High Court in Glasgow for a second day when she turned to judge Lord Matthews.

She said: "My Lord, I'm a grieving mother. I have been grieving for one year, six months and 16 days and I will be grieving 'til my very last."

Inaya was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children and put on a life support machine, which was switched off on April 20, 2016.

Earlier, Ahmed told defence QC Ian Duguid she was not treated well by her husband's Suleman's parents and other family members who lived with them.

She claimed she was made to sleep on the floor in her mother-in-law's bedroom after she gave birth.

She said: "I was treated like a slave in that house. That's why I was made to sleep on the floor in her bedroom after giving birth."

The court heard health visitors told the family that Inaya, who had difficulty eating, should be given solid food rather than mashed food.

Susan McIntyre, 50, a nursery nurse with the NHS, said she visited the family home on November 17, 2015, after concerns were raised about Inaya being fed with a syringe.

Ms McIntyre said: "Sadia welcomed me at the door with Inaya. The place was pristine. The floors were sparkling.

"I was shown into a room where Inaya's grandmother was. There were no chairs, so I sat on the floor."

She said Sadia "fully engaged with her" but the nursery nurse got the impression grandmother Noor Ahmed felt she was interfering.

Mr Duguid asked the nurse: "Did you understand that Inaya was getting mashed up food?"

She replied: "She should start using finger foods at nine months old. If a child isn't used to solid food they don't develop a gag reflux.

"Her muscles in her throat wouldn't have developed properly and it would be difficult for her to swallow."

Ms McIntyre told the court she later saw Ahmed and her daughter in the Drumchapel community clinic in the beginning of December 2015.

She was then asked by the QC how Ahmed was with her daughter and she replied: "It was very good and positive.

"Inaya came over to her and she was kissing and cuddling her and there was a lot of good eye contact."

The trial continues.