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Drug abuser guilty of murdering girlfriend and three relatives

Source: PA Archive

A volatile cannabis abuser who claimed he stabbed his girlfriend and three of her family members to death as a “sacrifice” has been found guilty of their murders.

Joshua Jacques, 29, was fuelled by drugs and alcohol when he attacked Samantha Drummonds and her family in their own home in Bermondsey, south London, early on April 25 last year.

found the bodies of Ms Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, grandmother Dolet , 64, and Ms Hill’s partner, Denton Burke, 58, after being alerted to

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