The sister of a Cavan woman brutally murdered by her husband is calling for the garda commissioner to release the findings from the case's crime review in full.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Jacqueline Connolly says the findings could 'warn and show people the signs, behaviours, and patterns of what family annihilators look like.'
Jacqueline's 39-year-old sister Clodagh was killed by her husband Alan Hawe in the sitting room of their Ballyjamesduff home in 2016, before he murdered his sons, aged between six and thirteen.
Alan Hawe, a deputy school principal who was described as a 'holier than thou' Catholic by his sister-in-law, hung himself shortly after.
In a five-page letter left by the murderer at the crime scene, Alan Hawe expressed his fears of being 'caught red-handed' and how he 'dreaded' going back to school because 'it was all going to blow up.'
During the investigation of the murders, the letter was used to diagnose Hawe as having had 'a long-standing depressive illness with anxiety and somatic concerns.'
In a new tell-all book written by Jacqueline Connolly entitled 'Deadly Silence,' she revealed her sister 'did not know the extent of her husband's pornography addiction', which included child abuse imagery.
Hawe, who was also described as manipulative and obsessive, had been attending counselling for his addiction, with notes from his sessions revealing he had possibly masturbated at the school where he worked.
Clodagh's sister is now calling for Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to reveal the crime review's findings in full, and for improved training for murder-suicide investigations across all garda stations.
