A Lanarkshire mum was seriously injured when three men burst into her home and attacked her with a machete.
Ashley Reilly suffered severed tendons in her wrist and and ankle defending herself in attack in the early hours attack of the morning.
The 35-year-old was at home with her 14-year-old son Benji and daughter Vogue, six, when she wakened by the sound of a window smashing, the Daily Record reports.