Pair are quizzed on death of man
Two men were today being questioned on suspicion of murdering a severely disabled Midland man reported missing with his mother.A man and a youth were today being questioned on suspicion of murdering a severely disabled Midland man reported missing with his mother. See also: James seen crying after mother's death James Hughes, aged 22, who had the mental age of an 18-month-old, had been missing since the weekend. West Mercia Police said a post mortem was being carried out. Officers were continuing to search the garden of the family home in Loxley Close, where a tent has been erected. James's mother Heather Wardle, aged 39, was found dead 48 hours earlier with a ligature around her neck in woodland half-a-mile from their home. The two arrested in connection with James's death are helping police with their inquiries at police stations in Kidderminster and Redditch. The suspects' ages have not been released and officers have also refused to say whether they were known to James. West Mercia Police Superintendent Jane Horwood said: "The body was discovered at a property in the Church Hill area of the town. "Officers have cordoned off the immediate area," she added.
A man and a youth were today being questioned on suspicion of murdering a severely disabled Midland man reported missing with his mother.
See also: James seen crying after mother's death
James Hughes, aged 22, who had the mental age of an 18-month-old, had been missing since the weekend. West Mercia Police said a post mortem was being carried out.
Officers were continuing to search the garden of the family home in Loxley Close, where a tent has been erected.
James's mother Heather Wardle, aged 39, was found dead 48 hours earlier with a ligature around her neck in woodland half-a-mile from their home.
The two arrested in connection with James's death are helping police with their inquiries at police stations in Kidderminster and Redditch.
The suspects' ages have not been released and officers have also refused to say whether they were known to James.
West Mercia Police Superintendent Jane Horwood said: "The body was discovered at a property in the Church Hill area of the town.
"Officers have cordoned off the immediate area," she added.Mr Hughes and his mother were reported missing from their home on Saturday.
Local teenagers found Miss Wardle's body on Monday in an area of "dense undergrowth" off Winyates Way, just minutes from the family home.
She was found with a ligature around her neck at the base of a tree, police said.
Miss Wardle had said she was going to a friend living nearby, but she never arrived.
Detectives believe she is likely to have died within 24 hours of the last public sighting of her late on Friday.
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