A Scots mum says she was ready to die defending her kids after three men burst into her home and slashed her open with a machete.
Ashley Reilly, 35, screamed at her son Benji, 14, and daughter Vogue, six, to hide as she tried to fight off the attackers who invaded her house in Lanark at 4am on May 2.
Ashley was awoken by the noise of her front window being smashed in and begged her children to run up the stairs.