An obsessed man has been found guilty of shooting his heavily pregnant ex-wife dead with a crossbow.

Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, 51, burst into the home of mother-of-five Devi Muhammad, formerly known as Unmathallegadoo, and fired an arrow into her stomach as she fled upstairs.

Mrs Muhammad, 35, suffered catastrophic internal injuries and died while her unborn son was delivered by Caesarean section and miraculously survived.

Judge Mark Lucraft QC remanded him in custody to be sentenced on November 29.

The judge told him: "You have been convicted of the most horrendous crime in the face of your own children and it's extremely grave what you have carried out."

The defendant nodded and thanked the judge as he was send down.

A further charge of attempted child destruction, not put to the fresh jury, is expected to lie on file.

The court had heard how the victim had an arranged marriage to the defendant in Mauritius on her 16th birthday. He was 30 at the time, nearly twice her age.

Their unhappy relationship ended in 2012 after an incident in which she jumped out of an upstairs window and broke her ankle.

She had told police the defendant had stared at her as he sharpened knives in the garden.