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Jordan Monahan Charmed Laura gray when
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the couple were still in primary school
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in Blackburn Lancashire she trusted him
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she loved him she had no reason to doubt
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him when Monahan murdered their two
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children in 2013 Laura didn't suspect a
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thing it's a level of evil that defies
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description these are his children and
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now they are both dead those murders
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were all about power control and
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insecurity his crimes went undetected
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and 6 years later it was new girlfriend
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Eevee Adams who paid the price for
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Monahan's jealousy he one of them people
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who prayers un vulnerable people a
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serial killer who murdered the very
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people he was meant to protect Jordan
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Monahan was finally unveiled as one of
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the wor world's most evil
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killers in 2013 young Dad Jordan Monahan
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lost both his children in the space of a
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year the 22 2-year-old turned to the
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press to Beg For answers about why his
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family had suffered such bad luck Jordan
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took part in a number of local and
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national uh newspaper articles wanting
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to understand why they died he felt that
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he could snuff out a life because he
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wanted attention he looked like the poor
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breathed devastated father he must have
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felt Invincible at that point so
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Invincible that he went on to murder
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again killing his girlfriend Eevee
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Adams the next time triple murderer
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Jordan Monahan's name was in the papers
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it was when he finally faced Justice for
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his callous
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crimes this Killer's Story begins on the
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16th of July
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1991 in the northwest of England
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Jordan mon was born in Blackburn which
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is East Lancashire he lived with his
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mother his stepfather his brother and
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his sister he never knew his biological
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father he was to put it politely a bad
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boy from the very beginning he was
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popular but uncontrollable unruly played
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truant a great deal and this is at the
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age 78
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n detective Pauline Stables would later
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become very well acquainted with Jordan
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Monahan's criminal history in his early
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years Jordan came to attention of the
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police due to manner levels of
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criminality criminal damage that sort of
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thing by the time he was
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11 he' started experimenting with
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cocaine and with alcohol and he started
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stealing cars his problematic Behavior
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started really really young where did
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this boy act as a child it just seems to
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me that he was a mini adult from almost
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the beginning this was the Wayward boy
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who around 2003 befriended a local girl
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called Laura gray so Laura gray she was
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also born and brought up within East
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Lancashire Blackburn area Laura was
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later to describe her childhood as
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rubbish she was left to offend for
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herself she met Jordan a year or so
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younger than him they became childhood
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sweethearts around about the age of 11
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and 12 as Laura gray was to put it
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memorably later things happened very
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quickly Laura gray saw him as the man
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she was going to spend her life with
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they were obviously fulfilling a need in
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each other even at that
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childish age where they really shouldn't
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have been so dependent on each other as
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they were and maybe Laura saw that as uh
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safe somebody who would look after her
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and that can be incredibly powerful when
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Laura was 13 she got the first taste of
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Monahan's manipulative tactics when
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tired of his erratic Behavior she tried
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to end their
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relationship 2 Days Later Jordan Monahan
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takes a cocaine overdose and ends up in
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hospital and then turns up at Laura's
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house a couple of days later all full of
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regret brings her gifts says oh please
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take me back there were other troubling
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signs in the teenage Monahan's
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Behavior he terrorizes his pet rabbits
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on one occasion he chases one round the
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garden with a hammer on another occasion
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he pretends to feed the rabbits and
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doesn't until one starves to death when
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Monahan was 17 he publicly proposed to
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16-year-old Laura in a crowded
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restaurant she had no quals about saying
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yes Jordan was a real extrovert he had a
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gift of the gab very convincing able to
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ingratiate himself with people very very
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positive very bubbly no wedding ever
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took place but a year later in 2009 the
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couple set up home together in Blackburn
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we got the relationship starting at 11:
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we got a proposal at 16 we got the
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moving into a house and 17 18 years old
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and in that way both of them have
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skipped childhood they've gone straight
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into being many adults it was never
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going to end well very early on there
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were signs that Monahan was trying to
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isolate his fiance she wants to see her
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family she wants to go out with a friend
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he doesn't wanted to go he's got to stay
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with me i' planned something special
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Jordan also monitored all Laura's social
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media accounts making sure she didn't
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have any other boyfriends Jordan had
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full control of the finances so they had
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one bank account all of the money would
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go into that bank account and Jordan
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would be in charge of paying the rent
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and all of the bills if Laura wanted to
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spend some money Jordan demanded that
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she give him a day's notice so that he
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could get the money out she accepted
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that as part of the relationship I mean
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she loved him she trusted him around
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Christmas 20110 Laura got some puzzling
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news she got a letter from the landlord
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that the rent hadn't been paid and bills
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weren't paid Laura couldn't understand
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why Monahan hadn't been keeping up with
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payments we had a good job he was a site
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manager for a construction company well
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paid probably around about £50,000 a
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year year at that time so you know he
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was earning good money he's got a steady
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job but he's also addicted to slot
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machines and online
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gambling he spent a lot of time trying
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to hide it from Laura um trying to deny
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that there was any issues or any
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problems they continued to argue about
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Monahan's gambling problem but in Spring
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2011 Laura pushed her misgivings aside
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when she discovered she was pregnant
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becoming a mother was all Laura had ever
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wanted Logan was born in November 2011
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natural birth healthy young boy and they
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obviously were on the face of it as far
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as Laura was concerned a happy family
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Laura wanted to enjoy her time with the
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baby but Monahan had other ideas within
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2 weeks of Logan's birth Jordan is
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pestering Laura gray to become pregnant
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again by the time Logan
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is just 5 months old Laura is pregnant
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again later Laura told police that
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Jordan Monahan may have engineered this
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happy accident Jordan made a joke about
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putting a needle through a condom um
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because he wanted me to get pregnant and
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I kept saying no no on the 22nd of
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September 2012 Laura received another
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complaint from the landlord saying that
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she and Mona an were behind with their
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rent heavily pregnant and caring for
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10-month-old Logan the news was the
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final straw for Laura they were
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obviously having problems with Jordan
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not paying the bills and at that time
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she decided that enough was enough and
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she wanted to end the
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relationship the following day Laura's
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gone out shopping when Jordan Monahan
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calls her and says that Logan has
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swallowed lots of paracetamol that it
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was drowsy that was floppy that he
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wasn't responding Logan is rushed to
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hospital Laura is worried sick but it
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turns out in fact that Logan hasn't
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taken any paracetamol and in fact he's
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perfectly all right but as a result of
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that and the shock of that situation
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Jordan spoke to Laura about not wanting
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to break the family up they agreed to
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stay together at that point though Laura
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didn't know it this was the beginning of
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a Sinister pattern baby Logan
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starts getting hurt it's always around
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the time that Laura is saying she's
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going to leave she is worried and
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vulnerable and she will turn to the
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father and they can come together and
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worry about the baby together and this
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gives him an in to claw back all of that
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control could the unimaginable actually
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be true if Jordan Monahan was
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mistreating his son in a plot to keep
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the relationship alive it was only a
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matter of time before it happened again
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in December 2012 days before their
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second baby was due Monahan Laura gray
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and 13-month-old Logan moved into a new
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larger home in Blackburn Lancashire on
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the 8th of December 2012 Ruby Julie
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Monahan the couple's second child is
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born again natural birth no issues at
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all lovely healthy healthy young baby
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but Laura's happiness was
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shortlived 21 days 3 weeks after Ruby's
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birth Monahan calls Laura downstairs
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who's been upstairs with
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Logan saying that something wrong with
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Ruby her lips are blue see what's
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happened my da is to be really badly
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she's going blue in the face just stay
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the alive with me I'll give you some
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instructions what to do next paramedics
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arrived the oxygen level in Ruby's blood
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was low they took Ruby into Hospital
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variety of different tests Ruby had been
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displaying viral type symptoms uh
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wheezing block nose Etc she's kept in
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for observation and she's eventually
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discharged on the 31st of December New
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Year's Eve George Jord and Laura have a
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quiet night in Laura about midnight goes
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to bed and Jordan says that he'll stay
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up and he'll do the the next feed about
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2:00 a.m. in the morning Jordan wakes
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Laura he's shouting up the stairs to
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Laura to say that Ruby is again she's
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not responding lips have gone blue she's
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not breathing okay did you see what
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happened she's not breathing she's not
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breathing I'm organizing help for you
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now
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they Rush Ruby back to hospital into A&E
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but this time she doesn't survive she's
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just
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24 days
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old Laura gray would later recall
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Monahan's unusual response to Ruby's
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death as soon as I looked at Ruby I knew
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that there was something wrong wrong
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with it and I just wanted to get her out
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and cuddle her but why wouldn't he do
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that that was his daughter
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and it was it was so C it just stood
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over
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it postmortem revealed that uh Ruby the
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cause of death was acute bronal
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pneumonia sadly children do die in these
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circumstances there were no suspicions
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whatsoever only later did Laura recall
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another strange detail about the day
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Ruby had died Laura had traveled in the
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ambulance with her newborn while Monahan
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stayed at home with Logan when he
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finally arrived Laura broke the tragic
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news to him Laura told him that Ruby had
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passed away he said I know and Laura
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thought that was really strange in
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relation to well how could how could you
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know Medics who'd come to Ruby's Aid at
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the family home had also noted something
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troubling Monahan said he'd raiseed the
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alarm the moment Ruby had become unwell
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the paramedics noted
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that riger mortis had started to set in
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at that point with the suggestion that
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Ruby had been deceased for a lot longer
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than potentially that Jordan was was
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indicated for a few months the couple
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were brought Closer by their shared
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bereavement but by that summer Laura
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once again had grave concerns about
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Monahan's behavior on the 26th of July
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2013 again Laura got to the point
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where she decided that she couldn't
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continue with Jordan constantly lying to
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her Laura gray tells Monahan look I've
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absolutely had enough of this I've had
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enough of your gambling so she told
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Jordan that the relationship was over
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Mahan appeared to accept the breakup but
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the following day he asked to spend a
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few final hours with his son before
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moving out so Laura went out shopping
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history was about to repeat itself mhan
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calls her up on her mobile phone and
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says Logan's gone all
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floppy and she rushes back Laura called
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the ambulance the ambulance came and
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they took him to hospital and checked
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him out absolutely no issues with him
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whatsoever Laura was completely
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distracted and distressed and I think
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Jordan's obviously convinced her to to
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stay in the relationship and the Fallout
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around and the money got forgotten about
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because they were just relieved that
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Logan was
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okay just 3 weeks later Laura caught
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Mahan out in another lie about money he
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claimed he hadn't been paid but she
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witnessed him using an ATM to withdraw
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money from a second bank account she
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knew nothing about that was the final
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straw for Laura um he lied to a time and
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time again she couldn't trust him around
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the finances so at that point she said
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said that's it enough is enough so again
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Jordan said okay well let me spend the
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day with Logan and then I'll go I'll
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pack me things and I'll leave that
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afternoon Jordan Monahan takes Logan out
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in his push chair to a public swimming
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bars in Blackburn and he goes into a
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cubicle
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to quotes change he's in the cubicle for
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half an hour but he doesn't
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change and Jordan leaves without
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swimming so when he leaves at that point
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the rain cover is over the pram the
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blanket is pulled up over Logan and
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there's no movement of Logan in the pram
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Monahan takes the little boy home and
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leaving him in his push chair he pushes
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him into the dining room with his face
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to the wall Monahan told Laura to let
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the toddler sleep a while a couple of
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hours later he left a pick up a pizza
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for dinner asking Laura to wake Logan
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while he was out so Laura goes to the
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prom pulls away the rain cover and the
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blanket and it's quite clear that Logan
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has
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died tell me please my baby's died
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please home tell me what's happened my
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baby's died I'm just s in the proper
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dead Logan Monahan passed away on the 7
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of August
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2013 less than 9 months after his sister
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Ruby he was just 21 months
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old Laura was
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devastated the police once again were
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informed of the sudden death Logan was
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subject to a postmortem and there was no
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natural cause that could be identified
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and ultimately the cause of death was
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unascertained
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broken by the unthinkable tragedy that
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had befallen them Laura gray at first
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clung even closer to her fiance Jordan
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Monahan but in September 2016 3 years
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after the tragic death of Logan Laura
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ended the relationship for good and this
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time no amount of threats cajoling or
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manipulation by Monahan could win her
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back less than a year later Monahan
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entered the life of 21-year-old eeve
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Adams she was working in a a pub in
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Blackburn and they met and then started
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a relationship and as I understand it
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very Charming toward eie showered her
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with gifts presents attention Evie was a
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shy slightly naive impressionable girl
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E's start in life had been tough then
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she was fostered by Bernard Adams and
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his wife
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Ivon a came to us with the
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brother she he was three and she was six
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nearly seven she didn't have best
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upbring him really just really really
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thin and scraggly her and they'd never
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really have hot
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meals eie and her brother arrived as
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young children for a temporary foster
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placement but from that day forward they
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never really left in 2008 when Eevee was
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12 years old Bernard and Ivon became the
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siblings legal guardian the couple
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enjoyed watching Eevee flourish into a
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happy teenager with a unique personality
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just dipping you know and I mean dippy
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always happy singing you
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know all the dances the silly dances
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songs and
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everything just she really funny age 17
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Eevee found a kindred spirit in her best
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friend Holly the first time I met eeve
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we was at Blackburn College we're both
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studying level one her dressing together
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and then we were just Inseparable after
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that she would bubbly happy she would
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never down and sad she would just a
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really happy
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girl but in 2017 after meeting
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26-year-old Jordan Monahan Eve's
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relationships with her friends and
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family began to change and the positive
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course her life had taken was tragically
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derailed 21-year-old Eevee quickly fell
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for the plausible Charming young man
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eeve rang me up and said I've met
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someone and he's really nice and she
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really excited about it but something
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wasn't right Eevee fell hook L and
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sinker for for this manipulative
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controlling man
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EV thought that Jordan would do anything
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far he'd bend over
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backwards and E enjoying that that she
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needed him love bombing her taking her
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out on nice States paying for friends to
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go out with her paying for friends
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nights away with her I would say that
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Jordan used his money as a way to
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control Eevee he was the sort of
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dominant part partner in in the
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relationship their relationship started
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really quickly and that would be hiso
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let's get the control as quickly as
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possible because all this love bombing
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stuff where I've got to convince you
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that I'm Prince Charming I can't keep
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that up for very long and that's what
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happens in abusive relationships that's
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how practically all of them start e
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Eve's loved ones witnessed firsthand
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Monahan's volatile Behavior I went out
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with him a few times it cause arguments
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and sto off and then she go after him I
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seen eveve have a couple of black eyes I
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did ask her about her injuries but I
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just got the same I walked into a lamp
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poost or I've hit it on a door or i'
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fell
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downstairs and usually for Eevee she
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told Bernard very little about her new
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boyfriend but her adoptive parents heard
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enough on the local grape vine to worry
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them I tried to find out a lot about him
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first but nobody' say a wa is a bad and
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then I heard he got a good ad in town
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somebody had glassed him a few months
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into the relationship it finally became
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obvious to Bernard exactly why Eve's
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boyfriend had attracted so much hatred
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in the local area on the 13th of April
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2018 Maham was arrested on suspicion of
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murdering his children Logan and Ruby 5
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years earlier you stand you rest
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3 months earlier the police had launched
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a formal investigation into Ruby and
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Logan's
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deaths that involved a full review of
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all of the witness testimony CCTV
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forensics and as a result of that her
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review of the cause of death for Ruby
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was changed from acute bronal pneumonia
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to unascertained
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this meant that both Ruby and Logan's
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deaths were now considered to be
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unexplained and therefore potentially
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suspicious by April 2018 the police had
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still not been able to conclusively rule
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out a genetic disorder that would
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explain Ruby and Logan's deaths despite
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this they recognized a clear pattern
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that pointed firmly at the Children's
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father Jordan Monahan the main area of
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Suspicion was around the fact that he
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was the only person present on each
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occasion of collapse and on the vast
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majority of occasions it was uh preceded
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by Laura telling Jordan that the
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relationship was over by now even Ruby
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and Logan's mother Laura suspected that
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Monahan could have harmed his own
00:24:21
children you obviously quite angry I can
00:24:23
see
00:24:24
that I think I've just realized that
00:24:27
it's a big possibility that he's done
00:24:29
something to
00:24:31
her what evidence are you doing this be
00:24:35
explain to you police station okay he
00:24:38
was arrested in April of 2018 in
00:24:42
relation to the deaths of his children
00:24:44
and he spoke freely throughout each
00:24:47
interview gave really comprehensive
00:24:50
explanation gave plausible on the face
00:24:53
of it
00:24:55
explanations in relation to the deaths
00:24:57
of the children and and proceeding
00:25:00
collapses do you understand where we're
00:25:02
trying to what we're where we're coming
00:25:03
from with this though there two
00:25:05
occasions with Ruby
00:25:08
that she's a fit and healthy child she's
00:25:11
fit and healthy in hospital she's
00:25:13
returned home and again she develops
00:25:15
some
00:25:17
another medical episode that medical
00:25:20
episode is it because she died of
00:25:21
pneumonia well so that's right there's a
00:25:25
cause why she was in she was Ill in
00:25:27
interrogation he's very relaxed very
00:25:31
cocky very arrogant seems quite
00:25:34
confident in his in his
00:25:36
account when actually when we started to
00:25:38
scrutinize his account didn't hold water
00:25:41
didn't stand up but are you responsible
00:25:44
for the attempt murder ofan on 27th no
00:25:47
July 2013 the murder of him on the 17th
00:25:51
of 202 no is is there anything to
00:25:54
explain the reasons why he suffers from
00:25:56
what he did no I'm not a doctor or
00:25:59
anything so I going to though their
00:26:01
suspicions were strong detectives did
00:26:04
not at that time have enough to charg
00:26:06
Jordan Monahan with the murders of his
00:26:09
children because there is no firm
00:26:11
evidence the police have no alternative
00:26:14
but to release him pending further
00:26:17
investigation these really were cult
00:26:19
cases no suspicions were really raised
00:26:22
at the time there was no crime scene
00:26:26
they need Monahan to trip in self up and
00:26:29
they need to have those cause of death
00:26:34
eie Adams refused to believe her
00:26:36
boyfriend was capable of murder Eve did
00:26:40
talk to me about Jordan and his past I
00:26:43
went Mar black Social Service have been
00:26:45
around and then eeve went on to tell me
00:26:47
that Jordan's been accused of killing
00:26:49
two of his kids eeve Adams is
00:26:52
warned that is being investigated and
00:26:57
advised to take out a non-molestation
00:26:59
order so that he can't see her however
00:27:03
it was seemed apparent that she really
00:27:06
had no intention of ending a
00:27:08
relationship with Jordan more than once
00:27:11
Eevee was persuaded to move into a
00:27:13
women's Refuge to get away from Monahan
00:27:16
and more than once he tracked her down
00:27:19
and persuaded her to take him
00:27:21
back after that I was just there for her
00:27:24
like there wasn't much else I could do
00:27:27
because whatever I was saying about
00:27:28
George and she didn't want to listen for
00:27:31
over a year Eevee and Monahan maintained
00:27:34
a volatile onoff
00:27:36
relationship but by October 2019 the
00:27:39
young woman was tiring of his
00:27:41
controlling narcissistic behavior she
00:27:45
text saying I'm leaving Jordan for good
00:27:47
I'm going back to my mom and dad's
00:27:49
tomorrow but Eevee never made it back to
00:27:52
her mom and dad's a couple of days later
00:27:54
as he's done so many times before he
00:27:56
worms his way back into her life a few
00:27:59
days after this Eevee called her adopted
00:28:02
parents Bernard and Ivonne because she
00:28:04
was feeling increasingly
00:28:07
unwell when she ringing up she had in
00:28:10
her head she had stomach flow Jordan
00:28:12
took control of the
00:28:15
situation he says don't worry I'll get
00:28:17
you the proper medication to look after
00:28:21
you H are you through to nhs111 service
00:28:25
it's SP on for the last few days and
00:28:28
could be possibly stomach FL she's not
00:28:31
getting any better some witnesses will
00:28:33
describe seeing a brown bottle a brown
00:28:37
medicine tablet type bottle with no
00:28:39
label on it that he was seen giving e
00:28:42
tablets also made appointments and then
00:28:45
didn't tell Eevee about the appointment
00:28:46
and didn't take her over the next few
00:28:49
days 23-year-old Eevee by now staying
00:28:53
with one of Monahan's relatives became
00:28:55
more and more sick but she refused any
00:28:58
offers of help from her family she'd
00:29:01
been ringing our house been ringing wife
00:29:05
for three days since you were real and
00:29:07
wife said look I'll come down say oh no
00:29:08
I've got an appointment doctor's coming
00:29:10
to see me said look if you're not just
00:29:13
ring an ambulance one be Hospital oh no
00:29:15
no no and then she'd be falling asleep
00:29:17
while she up fallone and she gets
00:29:20
progressively worse the Pain's terrible
00:29:23
on the 24th of October she's barely able
00:29:25
to
00:29:26
walk Jordan planned to go out for the
00:29:30
day to Wigan and during that time Eevee
00:29:34
deteriorated significantly to the extent
00:29:37
that his family were phoning Jordan to
00:29:39
say that she's really really
00:29:41
poorly and he tried to put his family
00:29:44
off ringing the ambulance until until he
00:29:47
arrived at at the
00:29:48
address he arrived at the address the
00:29:51
ambulance were called and sadly Eve was
00:29:54
pronounced deceased
00:29:59
when the police attended reports of a
00:30:01
sudden death they were struck by
00:30:03
Monahan's demeanor can't see any empty
00:30:07
wrappers of packets for
00:30:09
medication give the medic was on the
00:30:13
floor already took him as he has been at
00:30:16
the death of his two
00:30:19
children Jordan Monahan is I see
00:30:25
Cal doesn't seem all that dist urbed
00:30:29
doesn't seem
00:30:31
traumatized he also indicated that on
00:30:34
the days leading up to her death that
00:30:36
she had intimated that she wanted to
00:30:39
commit
00:30:41
suicide
00:30:43
and
00:30:44
showed text messages from ev's phone
00:30:49
that suggested that she didn't want to
00:30:51
be here anymore this was the version of
00:30:55
events Bernard and Ivon heard from thece
00:30:58
release that night about 10 10 at night
00:31:01
she died some bad news for you your
00:31:03
daughter dead she's stuck an off horse
00:31:06
went to go and identify her in Preston M
00:31:09
it was very nice and then the morning
00:31:13
after Bernard text me saying eeve is
00:31:15
dead now no she's not she's going to
00:31:17
ring me today she's coming home he's
00:31:19
like no Holly she's dead none of the
00:31:21
people close to Eevee Adams believe she
00:31:24
would take her own life she good parent
00:31:27
she good friend friends so no she had no
00:31:30
reason to commit suicide I honestly
00:31:32
thought he'd done something to her I
00:31:34
said to wife soon I said but he's done
00:31:36
so
00:31:37
much it wasn't just Bernard who was
00:31:40
having suspicions about Jordan Monahan
00:31:43
lanasha police questioned Monahan's
00:31:45
version of events in the leadup to E's
00:31:48
death and he was arrested on suspicion
00:31:50
of giving Eevee the prescription drugs
00:31:53
they believed had killed
00:31:55
her despite the Dreadful tragedy it
00:31:58
provided an opportunity for the team of
00:32:01
police officers investigating the deaths
00:32:04
of mahan's children the police link the
00:32:07
deaths
00:32:08
together Ruby Logan and Eevee
00:32:12
Adams the one common factor is of course
00:32:15
Jordan
00:32:17
Monahan and so the same inquiry team
00:32:20
took on both investigations Jordan's
00:32:22
behavior during the interview with EV
00:32:25
was as it has always been very unot
00:32:27
emotional matter of fact
00:32:30
cocky
00:32:33
confident I think he was convinced that
00:32:36
there was nothing going to come of the
00:32:38
investigation and he was confident that
00:32:40
he was going to get away with it Monahan
00:32:43
was released on bail once again while
00:32:46
the police began what they knew would be
00:32:48
the difficult task of proving what they
00:32:50
believed Mahan had done he was playing
00:32:53
The Grieving partner posting it all over
00:32:56
social media so we look like the victim
00:32:58
in it all when it come to the funeral he
00:33:01
wanted to run everything monam was told
00:33:04
in no uncertain terms that he would not
00:33:06
be attending Eve's funeral that didn't
00:33:09
stop him engineering a bizarre Discovery
00:33:12
at her home Eve
00:33:15
instigated he and Eve's friend going
00:33:19
through some of Eve's belongings it got
00:33:22
her around to decide which for to to put
00:33:25
it coughing there's a picture from that
00:33:27
bought um and there was a picture within
00:33:31
the frame and he opened the back of the
00:33:33
pcture frame up and showed the friend
00:33:36
there was a note in the back of the
00:33:38
pcture frame and it was a type note gave
00:33:41
the appearance that it was a suicide
00:33:43
note that Eevee had written and there
00:33:46
was a signature on the bottom signed by
00:33:50
Eevee it looked like Eevee had indeed
00:33:53
taken her own life as Monahan claimed
00:33:56
detectives suspected how however that it
00:33:58
could be proof that something even more
00:34:00
Sinister had taken place they called in
00:34:04
forensic linguistic consultant Dr
00:34:07
Isabelle
00:34:08
picornell I was contacted by the
00:34:10
Lancashire police in March
00:34:13
2020 to conduct an authorship analysis
00:34:16
on a note of disputed
00:34:19
origin so I was asked if I could
00:34:22
determine whether or not Eevee Adams was
00:34:26
the author of
00:34:28
this note our suspicions were
00:34:31
immediately aroused by the fact that it
00:34:33
was a tight written note it was in the
00:34:35
back of a picture frame this signature
00:34:37
looked like it had been
00:34:38
photocopied I was provided with samples
00:34:41
of e Adam's linguistic style from formal
00:34:46
letters she had written to the police to
00:34:48
pages from her diary as well as other
00:34:52
writings that the police had discovered
00:34:55
and what I did find is that e Adam's
00:34:58
style was stable across her writings she
00:35:01
always did certain things and never did
00:35:05
other things I then did the same
00:35:06
linguistic profiling of the suicide note
00:35:09
and what I did find was that it didn't
00:35:13
agree with the patterns in Evee Adams
00:35:18
material if Eevee did not appear to have
00:35:20
written the note the next task was to
00:35:22
find out if their suspect had I then
00:35:26
turned to Jordan onan's material and I
00:35:29
did the same process I was provided with
00:35:34
two or three letters written by him
00:35:39
and several excerpts from his Facebook
00:35:44
postings the results of Dr P Cornell's
00:35:47
analysis were damning in my opinion the
00:35:51
style of the note was closer to Jordan
00:35:53
Monahan's style than to Eevee Adams a
00:35:57
further examin mination of the note for
00:35:59
fingerprints there was no evidence of
00:36:03
E's fingerprints on the Note but
00:36:05
Jordan's fingerprints were recovered
00:36:07
Gathering expert evidence that Monahan
00:36:10
had faked T's suicide note was another
00:36:13
step towards proving he deliberately
00:36:15
killed her the next breakthrough came
00:36:17
when they accessed his devices when the
00:36:19
police examined Jord Mon's phone they
00:36:23
discovered that he's been a WhatsApp
00:36:25
group searching for prescription
00:36:28
medication we've identified
00:36:30
conversations between Jordan and other
00:36:32
members of that group at that time where
00:36:35
he is trying to Source the exact
00:36:38
medication that were found in eeve
00:36:41
system cause of death was ultimately a
00:36:44
fatal toxic overdose of prescription
00:36:47
medication which included am diam
00:36:51
Tramadol amatrene and
00:36:53
zopiclone and all of those drugs were
00:36:58
drugs that Jordan monhun on the days
00:37:00
preceding her death he was actively
00:37:04
trying to Source by tracking where E's
00:37:07
phone had been and where she had been in
00:37:10
the days leading up to her death police
00:37:13
were also able to prove it was Monahan
00:37:15
not Eevee who'd sent messages from her
00:37:18
phone claiming to be
00:37:20
suicidal next they turned their
00:37:23
attention to proving monohan had killed
00:37:25
his children too
00:37:29
one of the problems confronting the
00:37:31
police investigation is that they had to
00:37:34
discover that Ruby and Logan had not
00:37:38
died from any kind of genetic problem
00:37:41
that might have caused their sudden
00:37:42
infant deaths investigators needed a DNA
00:37:46
sample for Logan Monahan and after
00:37:49
painstaking efforts were able to track
00:37:51
down a blood sample that had been taken
00:37:54
at
00:37:56
Birth were ble to extract DNA profile
00:37:59
from from that and do the relevant
00:38:01
testing which essentially eliminated any
00:38:05
potential genetic disorder we were able
00:38:08
to feel confident that there was no
00:38:10
natural cause for the deaths of the
00:38:13
children by January 2021 the police and
00:38:17
the crown prosecution service believed
00:38:19
they had the body of evidence they
00:38:23
needed Jordan monan is charged with the
00:38:26
deaths of his daughter Ruby aged 24 days
00:38:30
his son Logan aged 21 months and his
00:38:34
girlfriend Eevee Adams aged
00:38:36
23 he was also further charged with two
00:38:40
further attempted murders and two child
00:38:43
cruelties and he was remanded in custody
00:38:46
pending trial it was a welcome moment
00:38:49
for Eve's loved ones he must have
00:38:51
thought it took that long he must have
00:38:53
thought he got away with it in October
00:38:56
2020 1 Jordan Monahan goes on trial at
00:38:59
Preston Crown Court for the murders of
00:39:02
Logan Ruby and Eevee
00:39:04
Adams it was the first time Bernard
00:39:07
Adams had laid eyes on the man accused
00:39:10
of killing his daughter Eevee the trial
00:39:13
we went every single day I knew we were
00:39:16
I've seen him but I'd never never met
00:39:19
him or
00:39:20
anything Pauline stables and her team
00:39:24
were confident the case they had built
00:39:26
was strong enough to convict the main
00:39:29
evidence supporting Jordan Mon and being
00:39:32
responsible for the murders of his two
00:39:35
children and Eevee was the fact that he
00:39:38
was the sole person in control of the
00:39:42
situation during each collapse and also
00:39:46
at the time of each individual's death
00:39:49
the prosecution put forward their
00:39:51
theories about how the two children had
00:39:53
died medical experts on reviewing all of
00:39:56
the information came to the conclusion
00:39:59
that the only explanation is likely to
00:40:02
have been an obstructed
00:40:04
herway on the witness stand 30-year-old
00:40:08
Jordan Monahan became His Own Worst
00:40:11
Enemy Monahan gave evidence throughout
00:40:15
the trial and again was cocky arrogant
00:40:20
essentially just accused all of the
00:40:21
witnesses as lying showed no remorse
00:40:24
showed no emotion
00:40:27
he was just just a horrible horrible
00:40:30
animal you can't know wrong and you
00:40:32
can't prove him
00:40:33
wrong most importantly when he was
00:40:35
giving evidence talking about reliving
00:40:37
the last moments of his children's lives
00:40:39
no emotion whatsoever you know and you
00:40:42
compare that to how hard it was for
00:40:46
Laura to talk about those times and talk
00:40:49
about the deaths of her children he
00:40:52
showed
00:40:53
absolutely no emotion whatsoever after a
00:40:56
10 week trial the jury retired to
00:41:00
consider their
00:41:01
verdict they deliberated for 6
00:41:05
days very nervous about the outcome we
00:41:09
obviously felt that we had put the
00:41:12
absolute best possible case forward that
00:41:14
we could that the evidence was strong
00:41:18
but ultimately it's a decision for the
00:41:20
jury and on the 17th of December 2021
00:41:24
Jordan Monahan is actually found guilty
00:41:27
of all three
00:41:29
killings it was overwhelming I think
00:41:32
everybody was relieved Justice for the
00:41:34
children and for Eevee was ultimately
00:41:36
our main aim and our goal and justice
00:41:38
for Laura and for Eve's
00:41:42
family and it was it was a relief
00:41:47
Monahan is given three life sentences
00:41:51
with him a minimum term of 40 years the
00:41:55
Home Secretary appealed to the court of
00:41:59
appeal in relation to the sentence in
00:42:03
the fact that it was felt that it was
00:42:05
unduly lenient and indeed the court of
00:42:08
appeal then decide that it was unduly
00:42:12
lenient and monan is given three life
00:42:15
sentences but with a minimum term of 48
00:42:19
years no less than he
00:42:22
deserved the verdict and the sentence
00:42:25
brought some measure of Justice ice for
00:42:27
Eevee Adams's grieving family and
00:42:30
friends as well as for the mother of
00:42:33
Ruby and Logan Mahan after the verdicts
00:42:37
and the sentencing Laura
00:42:39
gray said and it's impossible not to
00:42:42
feel
00:42:44
moved no punishment would ever be
00:42:48
enough what he did was beyond human
00:42:53
understanding
00:43:00
Laura gray says
00:43:03
poignantly that she hopes one day to
00:43:06
have another
00:43:07
family I will always be a mom she said
00:43:11
after manan's
00:43:13
conviction it's all I ever
00:43:16
wanted and Jordan can't take that away
00:43:19
from me the outcome of the trial was a
00:43:22
Vindication for the police officers
00:43:24
who'd left no stone unturned a d
00:43:27
dangerous man who presented a risk to
00:43:29
any woman or child who entered his life
00:43:31
was finally Behind Bars he's gone from
00:43:35
murdering his children to murdering his
00:43:38
partner to get what he wants it's hard
00:43:41
to imagine what else he could have gone
00:43:42
on to do if he hadn't have been
00:43:47
incarcerated Monahan was a heartless
00:43:50
killer who showed no emotion throughout
00:43:52
his series of horrendous murders we'll
00:43:55
never know why he chose to take the life
00:43:58
of Eevee Adams nor the reason for the
00:44:00
unforgivable murders of his own children
00:44:03
but thankfully a meticulous and
00:44:06
Relentless police investigation finally
00:44:09
exposed the callous crimes of Jordan
00:44:11
Monahan one of the world's most evil
00:44:15
killers
00:44:19
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