Nine years for hammer attacker

A husband who beat his estranged wife over the head with a hammer up to 12 times outside their home has been jailed for nine years. Mehmet Ince, 52, attacked Melek Tilki in Amhurst Road, Hackney, after their marriage broke down while subject to a non-molestation order forbidding him from using violence against her. The Turk demanded to see his children and threatened to kill his wife’s mother and sister before he attacked her, the court heard. He was cleared…