Parents Who Kill: Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents by Carol Anne Davis

Author:Carol Anne Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: True Crime, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781782197409
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Published: 2008-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

JOHN HOGAN

Depression ran in Hogan’s family – both of his brothers had committed suicide. But he was a devoted father, whose wife Natasha would later claim that he was obsessed by the children, that he put them before anyone else.

In 2005, he set up his own tiling business in Bradley Stoke, near Bristol, and was working incredibly long hours. The couple were seeing little of each other and the marriage became increasingly unstable. Neighbours later said that, on two occasions, John physically threw Natasha out of the house late at night and they heard her crying in the garden, begging to be let back in.

Understandably, she began to consider divorce and started to secretly research this on the internet. In the hope of improving their relationship, the couple agreed to book a holiday to Crete – but, a week before they were due to leave, John found out that Natasha was thinking of leaving him. He was both shocked and enraged.

The couple went to Crete as planned but the relationship remained volatile and, on the fourth day, Natasha said that she might go and stay with her mother when they returned to Britain. John began to shout at her, saying what was the point of the holiday if she was already planning to leave. He said that she wouldn’t get the house in a divorce settlement but that, if she did, he would burn it to the ground. That night, he told the receptionist that the family were leaving on the next available flight. Storming up to their room, he started to pack their suitcases. Noticing that they were so badly packed that they wouldn’t close, Natasha began to unpack them again.

John continued to shout at her with a crazed look in his eyes and Natasha begged him to stop for the sake of the children who were both in the room. Liam, age six, couldn’t stop crying as, like all children, he was devastated by parental arguments.

Suddenly everything went quiet and, when Natasha looked round, all three were gone and she could hear a woman at ground level who was screaming. Realising that John must have jumped over the balcony with the children, a drop of 50 feet; she phoned reception and told them to get an ambulance then raced downstairs. She could see Mia, age two, being lifted up: the toddler was looking around and seemed relatively unharmed. (She had suffered a broken arm but would make a full recovery.) Liam, in contrast, was lying in a heap and it was obvious that his legs were broken. He stopped breathing and his mother began to give him artificial resuscitation, aided by a medic. But he was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Hogan was knocked unconscious by the fall, but revived, sustaining a broken arm, broken leg and chest injuries. Filled with remorse, he again tried to commit suicide in custody. In August 2006, Natasha was granted a divorce.

On 21 January 2008, his trial started in Greece. He denied planning to kill his children and the court was told that he’d suffered an ‘earthquake of a psychosis’.

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