A suspected double killer left a bizarre Facebook message just hours after a mother and son were found hacked to death in their own home, it was revealed this morning.
Sally Cox, 43, and her son Martin Faulkner, 22, were found 'dead or dying' at their end of terrace home early yesterday morning.
Mrs Cox's two teenage daughters, Amy, 19, and Katie, 13, ran screaming from the house, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and raised the alarm. The elder daughter was said to be badly injured.
The girls were apparently heard screaming: 'Call the police. Call the police. Help. He's killing them!'
Hours later Mrs Cox's ex-partner Michael Kelly was arrested by armed officers in Swindon, Wiltshire, on suspicion of murder.
In a status update allegedly left on Facebook after the killing took place, suspect Kelly wrote: 'What a lovely job. Still someone's got to do it.'
It is understood Mrs Cox, who worked for delivery company DHL, was in the process of getting divorced from her second husband Anthony, who was not the father of her children, when she was killed.
Her son Martin was thought to have been protecting his mother when he was attacked.
She had moved in to her rented three-bedroom £125,000 home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, with new boyfriend Michael Kelly, 45, and her three children from her first marriage in January.
The pair met on Facebook while Mr Kelly was still living with wife of 22 years, Susanne, 46, in his home town of Swindon, Wiltshire.
The pair started dating after arranging a first date at a bar in the town and Mr Kelly then walked out on his wife and two young sons last December and he was also in the process of getting divorced.
He has reportedly not been paying child maintenance for his two boys.
After Mr Kelly got together with Mrs Cox they were both regularly swapping messages on Facebook.
Before things soured, he wrote on his page the relationship was 'the best thing that has ever happened 2 me.'
Victor Cox, Mr Kelly's father-in-law, told the Sun: 'He's certainly got a very quick temper. He was breaking things up when he left.'
He added that he has not seen him for more than a year.
Mrs Cox's daughter Amy was last night in an undisclosed hospital with serious injuries sustained in the incident. Social services had been called in to take the siblings to a 'place of safety', where they were due to be told the tragic news of their brother and mother's murder.
Thames Valley Police told a press conference yesterday officers had had no prior contact with the occupants of the house before today's tragedy.
Detective Inspector Steve Duffy said: 'As you can appreciate officers went out this morning and they were faced with a quiet horrific scene.
He added: 'This is a traumatic and horrific incident and what I can say is that while there is a background to this and it is very, very tragic, the wider community is not at risk.
'As far as I am aware there have been no previous calls to this address.
'We believe they had been in a relationship in the last few months but that had broken down.' He said the victims had suffered 'blunt trauma' injuries.
Police said a 45-year-old suspect was arrested two hours after the alarm was raised after he was 'tracked' to an address in Swindon, 55 miles away.
The street where the double murder took place, Mold Crescent, was the scene two years ago of another brutal killing in which a wife was battered to death with a chapatti pan.
In that incident the 30-year-old woman was murdered and body wrapped in a duvet and hidden behind a settee. Her husband, Mohammed Rashid, was jailed for life after walking into a police station and giving himself up.
Sally Cox, 43, and her son Martin Faulkner, 22, were found 'dead or dying' at their end of terrace home early yesterday morning.
Mrs Cox's two teenage daughters, Amy, 19, and Katie, 13, ran screaming from the house, in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and raised the alarm. The elder daughter was said to be badly injured.
The girls were apparently heard screaming: 'Call the police. Call the police. Help. He's killing them!'
Attack: Former line dancing coach Michael Kelly, far left, had been in an relationship with Sally Cox until last month
Sally Cox, 43, who was hacked to death in her own home by an axeman who fled leaving the house 'covered with blood'. Her son Martin Faulkner, 19, (right) is pictured here with his girlfriend Melissa Foster
In a status update allegedly left on Facebook after the killing took place, suspect Kelly wrote: 'What a lovely job. Still someone's got to do it.'
It is understood Mrs Cox, who worked for delivery company DHL, was in the process of getting divorced from her second husband Anthony, who was not the father of her children, when she was killed.
Her son Martin was thought to have been protecting his mother when he was attacked.
Police activity outside a house in Banbury, as officers investigate a suspected double murder
Ten uniformed officers remained at the scene, along with five detectives and a number of forensic investigators
Split: Michael Kelly, right, walked out on his wife Susanne and child after meeting Sally Cox
The pair met on Facebook while Mr Kelly was still living with wife of 22 years, Susanne, 46, in his home town of Swindon, Wiltshire.
The pair started dating after arranging a first date at a bar in the town and Mr Kelly then walked out on his wife and two young sons last December and he was also in the process of getting divorced.
He has reportedly not been paying child maintenance for his two boys.
After Mr Kelly got together with Mrs Cox they were both regularly swapping messages on Facebook.
Before things soured, he wrote on his page the relationship was 'the best thing that has ever happened 2 me.'
Victor Cox, Mr Kelly's father-in-law, told the Sun: 'He's certainly got a very quick temper. He was breaking things up when he left.'
He added that he has not seen him for more than a year.
Mrs Cox's daughter Amy was last night in an undisclosed hospital with serious injuries sustained in the incident. Social services had been called in to take the siblings to a 'place of safety', where they were due to be told the tragic news of their brother and mother's murder.
Thames Valley Police told a press conference yesterday officers had had no prior contact with the occupants of the house before today's tragedy.
Detective Inspector Steve Duffy said: 'As you can appreciate officers went out this morning and they were faced with a quiet horrific scene.
'There were two people who were obviously dead, or very close to death, at the scene.'
He would not say whether or not the victims had been attacked with an axe but said that a firearm was not used. Officers were still hunting for the murder weapon.
He would not say whether or not the victims had been attacked with an axe but said that a firearm was not used. Officers were still hunting for the murder weapon.
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Det Insp Duffy said he could not confirm if the suspect was related to the victims but did say that he was recently in a relationship with the female victim.
The bodies were discovered in Banbury, Oxfordshire
He added: 'This is a traumatic and horrific incident and what I can say is that while there is a background to this and it is very, very tragic, the wider community is not at risk.
'As far as I am aware there have been no previous calls to this address.
'We believe they had been in a relationship in the last few months but that had broken down.' He said the victims had suffered 'blunt trauma' injuries.
Police said a 45-year-old suspect was arrested two hours after the alarm was raised after he was 'tracked' to an address in Swindon, 55 miles away.
The street where the double murder took place, Mold Crescent, was the scene two years ago of another brutal killing in which a wife was battered to death with a chapatti pan.
In that incident the 30-year-old woman was murdered and body wrapped in a duvet and hidden behind a settee. Her husband, Mohammed Rashid, was jailed for life after walking into a police station and giving himself up.
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