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3am holiday island horror as lad, 10, phones to say: ‘She isn’t breathing’

A MOTHER was smothered to death with a pillow in front of her child during a robbery at her home.

Janice Farman,47, was alone with her 10-year-old autistic son when three masked men broke in at 3am.

The attack happened on the Indian Ocean holiday island of Mauritius where she had lived since 2004.

A local said: “Police told us she was smothered to death in her bed. They arrived at three in the morning. The son alerted a friend. He is now in care because his father is abroad.

“They stole many things including her jewellery and her car.”

One man has been arrested after the attack in Albion, on the west coast, an area known for burglaries.

Mrs Farman, originally from Clydebank in Scotland, had recently moved to the town which is eight miles from Port Louis, capital of the former British YOU’RE as young as you feel – and Robbie Williams seems to have turned the clock back since his grey, gaunt look last year. The Old Before I Die singer, 43, was pictured with a fuller face and dark brown locks in Germany yesterday. territory. She was managing director of a data services group of companies.

A colleague said he was contacted by her son in the early hours. He told him his mother was “not breathing”.

The man, who did not want to be named, said: “She was the most kindhearted lady I have met in my life.”

On social media he referred to Mrs Farman as his mentor but claimed that Mauritius – which has a million visitors a year – “was no longer a paradise”.

VICTIM Janice was attacked in bed