Bricklayer faces life in prison for killing his two baby sons and poisoning his girlfriend six years later
After more information came to light, the police reviewed the deaths of Ruby, of 24 days, and Logan, of 20 months, and in 2018, for which Monaghan was arrested .
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The triple assassin Jordan Monaghan faces the ca dena perpetual, after being convicted of murdering his newborn baby and toddler by suffocation , and six years later of killing her new partner with a drug overdose .
The man of 30 years old, a gambling addict, manipulative and controlling, he obstructed the airways of his defenseless children in separate murders in January and August of 2013.
After more information came to light, the police reviewed the deaths of Ruby, from 24 days, and Logan, of 21 months, and in 2018 , for which Monaghan was arrested.
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Jordan Monaghan, 30, has today been convicted of the murder of his own children and his girlfriend, and the attempted murder of a third child.
He will be sentenced later today and we’ll provide an update here on our social channels. pic.twitter.com/wzuDOZjaku
— BwD Police (@BlackburnPolice) December 17, 2021
I was low Police bail for the child murders, when he killed his new girlfriend with a deadly cocktail of prescription drugs in October 2019.
Monaghan argued during his trial in Preston Crown Court, which lasted 10 weeks, he murdered his girlfriend, because he could not face the rejection of his partners.
The defendant, who suffered from a mild illness, did not appear in court, as the president of the jury delivered the guilty verdicts, after 26 hours of deliberation over six days.
Laura Gray, the mother of the children of 28 years, could be heard crying on the public gallery, as verdicts were delivered.
Monaghan was convicted of the three murders and two counts of attempted murder of a third child who did not could be identified for legal reasons.
Trial judge Justice Goose ordered the defendant to be brought from prison to court to dictate sentence at 15. 00 hours.
Eight months later, after Miss Gray discovered that her boyfriend owed thousands of pounds in gambling debt, she told him that the relationship was over.
The next day, she took her son, Logan , from 21 months, to a local pool, Waves in Blackburn.
While alone in a cubicle in the locker room, he suffocated the boy, the jury heard.
The deaths of Rub yy Logan were investigated as sudden and unexplained events, but the girl’s death was attributed to bronchiolitis and Logan’s cause of death remained “undetermined.”
Both had been seen by doctors in the days and months prior to his death, but other than the usual childhood illnesses, no serious medical condition was found.
Following Logan’s death on 17 August, Monaghan was interrogated for eight hours by police before being released.
But Lancashire Police conducted a review after more information came to light and Monaghan was arrested and released on bail on suspicion of murder in January 2018.
It turned out that Monaghan had suffocated little Ruby while she slept in her Moses basket. He had told his then partner, Miss Gray, that he would stay up and feed his daughter at 2 a.m.
Later the woke up saying Ruby was not breathing.
Ruby was rushed to the hospital where she later died.
Evie Adams, Monaghan’s second girlfriend , died of a fatal overdose on 24 October 2019, one week after complaining of discomfort and stomach pains.
A report from the toxicologist showed that the amount of tramadol in the young woman’s blood from 23 years was five times the normal prescribed dose.
Following Jordan Monaghan’s conviction, Martin Hill, Deputy Director of the Complex Cases Unit The North West Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told the Daily Mirror: “The cruelty of Jordan Monaghan is incredible and the cruelty of these murders is heartbreaking. ”
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