Two men charged over camper van attack

TWO men were last night charged with attempting to murder the English couple who were dragged from their camper van and subjected to a vicious hatchet attack near the Northern border in Co Louth.

The husband and wife from Skegness, Lincolnshire, were asleep in their camper van, which was parked in a lay-by just off the main Belfast to Dublin road when they were attacked at 4am on Monday morning.

The 56-year-old woman suffered a fractured skull while her husband, 61, sustained a broken arm and numerous gashes in the attack.