A Weston man who beat his wife to death when she told him their marriage was over starts a life sentence today...

Stephen Hotson who's 45 hit his wife Julia Tottle repeatedly around the head with a vacuum cleaner pipe when she asked him to leave their home in Kewstoke.

Hotson had denied murder but admitted killing the 51-year-old, claiming he was depressed and suffering from an "abnormality of mind".