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