Family Massacre: Killer Acted With ‘Murderous Intent’ While High on Drugs, Jury Told

LONDON—A man stabbed to death his girlfriend, her mother, her grandmother and the older woman’s partner in a “bloodbath” at a house in south London after taking drugs which induced a “transient psychiatric disorder,” the Old Bailey has been told. Joshua Jacques, 29, denies murdering Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, her grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and Ms. Hill’s partner Denton Burke, 58, at their home in Bermondsey, south London, in April 2022. Jacques has pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, a plea which has not been accepted by the Crown. Opening the case on Monday, the prosecutor, Tom Little KC, said, “This is a case involving not one death, not two deaths, and not even three deaths but four violent and brutal deaths at the hands of this defendant.”...