Joshua Jacques, 29 of Minard Road, Lewisham had pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility...

Published: 3:24 pm December 21, 2023
Updated: 11:35 am October 8, 2025
A man who killed three generations of the same family in what he called a ‘sacrifice for the greater good’ has been convicted of murder

Joshua Jacques, 29 of Minard Road, Lewisham had pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility but was convicted of four counts of murder by a jury at the Old Bailey.

Jacques’ partner 27-year-old Samantha Drummonds; her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, and her grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, were violently killed by Jacques at their home in Bermondsey, as was Dolet’s partner Denton Burke, aged 58.

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