A murderer who smothered his own baby daughter and his toddler son before going on to poison a new partner has been jailed for a minimum of 40 years.
"Jordan Monaghan killed 24-day-old Ruby at their Blackburn home in January 2013. Eight months later he smothered 21-month-old Logan at a swimming pool.
The 30-year-old was on police bail six years later when he went on to poison his 23-year-old girlfriend, Evie Adams.
Monaghan was found guilty at Preston Crown Court on three counts of murder."
At least in the absence of capital punishment, the sentence handed out may probably mean a life in prison for this murderer. However, there are more and more murders of this type it seems. Why cannot people exercise restraint, were they not bought up to do that or to know that to take a life is wrong?
There have been a couple of times in my life where I thank my parents for having brought me up know this and other wrongs too.
Has anyone on here been in those infuriating situations where self-restraint has to be exercised and done so? It’s not easy but not impossible to do.
This doesn’t sound like a crime of passion, where self-restraint would prevent it.
From reading that article, it sounds like this man planned these murders in a cold-blooded manner -
Martin Hill, from the North West Crown Prosecution Service, said Monaghan’s cruelty was “beyond belief” and his ruthlessness was “harrowing”.
“It is difficult to comprehend the depravity that went into planning and committing these murders,” he said.
Det Ch Insp Pauline Stables said Monaghan showed “no emotion” when he talked about the deaths of his two of his children, describing him as “very manipulative” and “cold-blooded”.
I think it would be difficult for a reasonable and compassionate human being to understand behaviour like this - he sounds like a psychopath.
He sounds a total loony … it’s the spacings between the crimes that does it.
I can never understand parents who kill their own kids anyway … but to be out on bail and then poison his girlfriend.
He deserves the death penalty if anyone ever did.
Self-restraint I believe would prevent any crime, it’s knowing right from wrong I reckon that would have saved the lives of his partner and two children.
Yes, that is true, only the psychopath themselves would know how their mind was working, or not perhaps, at that time. Others should be safe from a person like this, providing 40 years means 40 years.
The premeditation hardly seems possible does it. Being out on bail and then poisoning his girlfriend says a lot about his determination doesn’t it. More so when it’s reported he showed no emotion about the deaths of his two children.
Yes, a typical example of someone who doesn’t warrant being kept at public expense, far better to get rid of him, I doubt if he could ever be rehabilitated anyway.
Questions to which I doubt the answers will ever be known. Changes to the law on releasing suspects mean they are released as they cannot be held under investigation any longer than 28 days. This doesn’t give police enough time, unless they apply to a Court for longer to keep someone in custody. This link from Sep 22, 2019 shows how bad the problem was then and I doubt it’s improved since, probably it’s now worse:
