‘Severe Failings’ by Probation Service in Run up to Joshua Jacques Quadruple Murder: Report

A heavy user of skunk cannabis who murdered four people during a drug-induced episode was allowed to slip through the net because of “serious failings” by the Probation Service, says an inspector’s report. Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones, who conducted an independent review, said a drug intervention was not organised for Joshua Jacques, even though he was assessed as “high risk” on his release from jail. Jacques, 29, stabbed to death his girlfriend Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and Ms. Hill’s partner Denton Burke, 58, at the family home in Bermondsey, south London, in April 2022. He piled the three women’s bodies on top of each other in the kitchen and left Mr. Burke’s at the foot of the stairs....