Hawe Inquest: Family were 'unlawfully killed'

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• Mystery of final text sent by teen stabbed along with mum and brothers by his dad in 'murder-suicide'
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• Hawe murdered his family in their Co Cavan home before killing himself in 2016

“I went upstairs to the rear of the house and found two young children, whom I now know to be Liam and Niall, in single beds. “That he managed to also end the lives of his innocent family and cause their extended family and friends untold grief is equally indisputable. Despite the horror atrocity, the Irish Sun can reveal Hawe’s estate stands to inherit part or even all of the family death house and other assets. Evil deputy school principal Hawe slaughtered his children Liam, 14, Niall, 11, Ryan, six, and their mum Clodagh, 39, before killing himself.

In the kitchen on the table were a number of documents, a hand written letter and a sealed white envelope, all of which were blood stained. Garda Aisling Walsh confirmed her colleague’s witness statement and momentarily broke down in the witness box as she recalled the scene. Mrs Coll said her eldest grandson Liam had been in great form following a win at a basketball game earlier in the day. Mrs Coll’s concern was triggered by a note taped to the back door in Hawe’s handwriting. Mrs Coll fought back tears as she was asked to recall how she discovered Clodagh, Liam, Niall and Ryan were dead. Clodagh’s mother Mary Coll was the first to take the stand at Cavan Court House on Monday as her surviving daughter Jacqueline Connolly, looked on from the public gallery, her face wracked with grief and pain.

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“I’m sorry for how I murdered them all but I simply had no other way." Alan pinned a note to the back door warning neighbours against entering the house before the tragedy unfolded. The bodies of the three boys were found in their bedrooms while the parents were discovered downstairs.

He had left a note on the back door of the house warning any caller not to enter but to alert the Garda. Weapons, though no firearms, were used in the murders and gardaí have taken knives and a hatchet from the family home at Barconey Heights, Ballyjamesduff for examination. The results are not being released by the Garda but The Irish Times understands Ms Hawe and her sons died violently at the hands of Mr Hawe. In its statement it said that “out of respect for the solemnity of the funeral liturgy” and because St Mary’s Church had limited capacity it was “reserved for family, loved ones and parishioners only”. All five members of the Hawe family will be laid to rest in their home parish in Co Cavan on Saturday. Clodagh’s family are calling for a number of measures in the wake of the tragedy.

Mystery of final text sent by teen stabbed along with mum and brothers by his dad in 'murder-suicide'

But under proposals to be considered by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald, the killer will not lose all of their assets. Instead, a court would decide whether, and by how much, to reduce their share. Mary recalled how she grew concerned when Niall and Ryan didn’t go to her house after school and after a flurry of panicked calls to Alan and Clodagh that were unanswered, she drove over to their house. The three Hawe brothers were all stabbed to death in their bedrooms, post-mortem examinations show. "There is this suggestion that perhaps family or friends had come across some sort of warning signs but that is simply not the case at all. There were no signs, not one." Ll five members of the Hawe family who died in the Co Cavan horror will be laid to rest together, on the insistence of relatives.

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Gardaí hope their interviewing of the couple’s family and colleagues will identify any difficulty the family, specifically Alan Hawe, may have been experiencing. The postmortems on the remains of the four murder victims and Alan Hawe had been completed last night. The Hawes will then be laid to rest after the Mass in the cemetery beside the church.

"Clodagh was in great form and the boys were looking forward to going back to school. All the uniforms and books had been got and it was a normal, happy evening. Earlier that day, the family had attended the Castlerahan Gaelic football match against Kingscourt. Afterwards, they went to a basketball match at Virginia College, where eldest son Liam played for the U16 East Cavan Eagles. The funeral Mass will be held at St Mary's Church in Castlerahan on Saturday at 4pm, just across the road from the school where Alan was vice-principal and where Niall and Ryan were pupils. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnán Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter. He also recalled the huge impact the family had on the life of the surrounding community and how they dedicated themselves to helping their neighbours.

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Garda Ratcliff told the court they arrived at the Oakdene home at 11.19am on Monday August 29, after receiving a call from Monaghan Garda station. The previous evening the Hawe family had visited Mrs Coll in her home in Virginia where the boys watched TV in the sitting room while the adults shared a pot of tea in the kitchen. Niall, who shared a room with his big brother, suffered a single stab wound to the left side of his neck which was also eight centimetres deep. The blade sliced through his windpipe rendering speaking or sound impossible. The doctor assured the Coronor’s court sitting in Cavan that no other party had been involved in the deaths of the family in August 2016.

In the early hours of August 29, 2016, Hawe, a vice principal at his children’s elementary school, killed his wife and three sons before hanging himself. The horrific crime came a day before the first day of the new school year. Gardaí were last night continuing to examine the Ballyjamesduff house where Clodagh Hawe and her three sons were murdered by their father before he took his own life. Please believe me that on this day Clodagh and the boys were happy." Jacqueline revealed it’s likely he killed Clodagh, wrote the lengthy letter, then killed his sons, before returning to the letter. THE evil dad who killed himself after he murdered his wife and three children was addicted to porn and enjoyed wearing his wife's underwear.

The confession letter of murderer Alan Hawe reveals that the husband and father “enjoyed” killing his family. 'We believe all the answers are within that house,' Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll told a press briefing outside Ballyjamesduff Garda Station yesterday. Teacher Clodagh, 39 and her children Liam, 15, Niall, 11 and six-year-old Ryan were slaughtered in their home by their demented father, Alan, 41 between Sunday night and Monday morning, before he took his own life. A husband killed his wife and three children in a way which rendered them unable to cry out for help, the victims' family have said.

Dr Curtis added that he believed Hawe killed his wife and oldest son, Liam, first before turning his attention to Niall and then little Ryan. Teacher Clodagh and her boys, Liam, 14, Niall, 11 and six-year-old Ryan, were killed in their Co Cavan home by husband and father Alan Hawe last year. Horrific evidence heard at the inquest of Clodagh Hawe and her sons held just one fleeting consolation for their grieving relatives - the fact that all four of them died quickly.

The family have argued that a psychological autopsy should have been undertaken which would have reconstructed events leading up to Hawe’s death and the murders. Cops believe Hawe butchered his entire family after he was caught pleasuring himself at the school where he worked while accessing pornography. They also found out Alan was spotted driving close to Castlerahan National School where he was vice-principal in the early hours of the morning that the killings happened. Clodagh’s mum Mary Coll and sister Jacqueline Connolly say they are living in “torture” five years on from the barbaric killings which shocked the nation.

Pall-bearers wearing white shirts and black ties shouldered the coffins inside the packed church. The remains of Ms Hawe, her husband, Alan Hawe, and sons Liam , Niall and Ryan , will repose at Finnegan's funeral home in Cavan town between 3pm and 8pm tomorrow . Mr Hawe was deputy principal at the nearby Castlerahan National School where at least one of his two younger sons were pupils. They are believed to have been called by staff at the school where Mr Hawe taught as he had been due to attend a meeting there yesterday morning.

He said that members of the family had been last seen alive on Sunday, and nothing at that stage had raised concern suggest that such an occurrence may take place. Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll stated that while there was no evidence of a firearm being used, 'a number of objects found in the house' remain the subject to an ongoing detailed technical examination of the scene. He was only the only boy in the choir at the local church, where the Hawe family regularly attended. It is understood the priest has requested that no confetti will be thrown at the newlyweds following the wedding because it could not be removed before the funeral. And he explained to the 32 parishioners attending Mass why the funeral has been arranged to start at 4pm. Danniella Westbrook has revealed her hopes for her appearance after scheduling in her reconstructive surgery for her face.