A man beheaded his mother because he thought she was a reptile, a judge has been told.

James Dunleavy decapitated his mother Philomena then left her body in a shallow grave in the gruesome attack that followed a row in Edinburgh in spring 2013.

Dunleavy, 41, was jailed for nine years after a jury heard he chopped his 66-year-old mother’s arms and legs off.

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