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MUM’S HEARTBREAK ‘MY SON KILLED FOUR PEOPLE’

Melissa McGuinness was sitting on the lounge with her morning cup of tea. It was December 2012, and she was laughing about her teenage son, Jordan, with her husband Peter.

“He’d just started an apprenticeship as a builder,” she tells New Idea. “He said he was going to build a house and put a granny flat on for us. Peter and I were joking we weren’t quite ready for that. But it was lovely of him.”

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