Axe murderer killed ex-partner and her son

A KILLER has been jailed for life after pleading guilty to murdering his former partner and her son with an axe, police said.

Michael Kelly — who will serve a minimum of 30 years — snapped because he could not deal with the crumbling of his relationship with Sally Cox a month earlier.

Wearing a gruesome horror mask, Kelly used an axe to kill 43-year-old Cox and her son, 22-year-old Martin Faulkner, at the house they shared in Banbury, Oxfordshire.