An Aberdeen graduate was stabbed to death by her husband after he suffered “an abnormality of the mind”, a court has heard.
Robert Kerr attacked Xin Xin Liu, 39, at their home in the upmarket suburb of Newton Mearns, near Glasgow.
The 39-year-old struck as his two sons slept upstairs – and went on to make himself a hot drink while Xin Xin lay dead.
A judge heard how the mum, was born in China but lived in Aberdeen until four years ago, suffered more than 70 wounds during the horrific killing in April this year.
Kerr faced a murder allegation as he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday but prosecutors accepted his guilty plea to a reduced charge of culpable homicide on the grounds of his diminished responsibility.
It had been concluded that Kerr was suffering from “an abnormality of the mind” at the time of the fatal attack.
The first offender will return to the dock in November.
The mum had moved to Scotland from China around 15 years ago to study law at the University of Aberdeen.
It was there she met Kerr, who was doing a computer course.
