Family Massacre: Killer Acted With ‘Murderous Intent’ While High on Drugs, Jury Told

A man killed his girlfriend, her mother, her grandmother and the older woman’s partner while suffering from a ’transient psychotic disorder', a jury has heard.

Undated handout photos of Samantha Drummonds (far L); her grandmother Dolet Hill and Hill's partner Denton Burke, who were killed in Bermondsey, London in April 2022. Metropolitan Police

LONDON—A man stabbed to death his girlfriend, her mother, her grandmother and the older woman’s partner in a “bloodbath” at a house in south London after taking drugs which induced a “transient psychiatric disorder,” the Old Bailey has been told.

Joshua Jacques, 29, denies murdering Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, her grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and Ms. Hill’s partner Denton Burke, 58, at their home in Bermondsey, south London, in April 2022.