Wife killer caged for five years

Amnesiac is sentenced

A SHOPKEEPER who bludgeoned his sleeping wife to death before handing himself in was jailed for five-and-a-half years yesterday.

Asghar Buksh repeatedly hit mother-of-six Nasreen Buksh over the head at their flat in Dixon Avenue, Glasgow, last September.

He then went to Cathcart police station and said: “I think my wife’s dead. I hit her on the head. I did it.”

Buksh, 55, inflicted at least five blows on her head with a heavy, blunt object which has never been found.

He was originally charged with murdering Nasreen, 43, but the Crown earlier accepted his guilty plea to culpable homicide on the basis of diminished responsibility.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard Buksh had no memory of the killing.

Sarah Livingstone, defending, said his amnesia was “absolutely genuine”, adding: “He is crushed by what he has done.”

The Bukshs were married for 25 years but the relationship had broken down over the previous decade.

Buksh feared his wife was going to take their youngest child to Pakistan and not return, was suffering from stress and was not sleeping.

Judge Lord Burns told him he had reduced the sentence from eight years to five-anda-half years to reflect his early plea.

He added: “I accept, as the Crown does, that you acted when your responsibility for your actions was diminished by reactive stress disorder.”