Dawlish News

A pensioner has been sent to a secure ward after he attacked a terrified carer with an axe as she was visiting his home in Tiverton.

She only escaped after taking the axe off him, getting away from the house and calling the police and her bosses for help.

He will now be treated at a secure ward at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, after a judge at Exeter Crown Court made a hospital order.

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