Mother and son ‘hacked to death’ by former partner

A MOTHER and son were hacked to death in their own home by a man neighbours said was wielding an axe.

The woman’s teenage daughter was badly hurt in the attack and her 13-year-old sister “severely traumatised”, police said.

Armed police arrested a 43-year-old man a few hours later in Wiltshire. Police said the suspect was the woman’s former partner.