Son hacks mum to death

Son hacks mum to death

A son in the United Kingdom hacked his mum to death with a machette.

She lost several fingertips and her hands were almost severed, reported The Sun.

The killers son, Usman Shahzad, 21, saw his mother's recent marriage to a Pakastani man as a threat to his inheritance.

He also used a knife and a shower rail to inflict 70 wounds on mum Assia, 40.

Her lodgers, who heard screams almost drowned out by loud rap music, alerted police

Officers broke down the door to find Shahzad standing on his butchered mother's neck.

Judge Christopher Tyrer said he must serve a minimum 20 years for the "abhorrent, ruthless and cold-blooded murder".

Shahzad, who pleaded guilty, showed no emotion as he was led away to the cells.

Source:The Sun

Published April 21 2011