A man has appeared in court charged with the murders of his wife and her son.
Calogero Ricotta, 63, is accused of killing Maria Nugara, 54, and 29-year-old Giuseppe Morreale in the village of Ugley in Essex.
He appeared before Chelmsford Crown court via video link from HMP Peterborough on Tuesday.
Ricotta, of Cambridge Road, Ugley, was not asked to enter pleas to the two counts of murder and one of actual bodily harm.
Judge Morgan remanded him in custody to appear again in person, with an Italian interpreter requested, on 16 August.
Essex police said it received a call at 9.50pm on 28 May reporting that two people had been seriously injured at an address in Ugley, near Bishop’s Stortford.
Officers attended the address in Cambridge Road and found the bodies of Nugara and Morreale, who were pronounced dead at the scene.
