THE home where evil Alan Hawe butchered his family has been demolished.
It’s thought the site will be turned into a memorial garden to the devil dad’s victims.
It’s thought the site will be turned into a memorial garden to the devil dad’s victims[/caption]
Depraved deputy school principal Hawe murdered his children Liam, 14, Niall, 11, Ryan, six, and their mother Clodagh, 39, before then killing himself.
The 41-year-old killed them using knives, a hatchet and his bare hands at their home in Co Cavan before taking his own life on August 29, 2016.
Clodagh’s grieving mum, Mary Coll, last year lodged an application with Cavan County Council to raze the property, which is located in the townland of Barconey, near Ballyjamesduff, in south Co Cavan.
Revealing the reasons for the push to flatten her daughter’s former home, Mary said: “It can’t be left stood there forever the way it is, what it reminds people of. For all that it has taken from this world.”
Excavators this week moved in to pull down the house of horrors.
It is understood that Clodagh’s sister Jacqueline was there to see the demolition on Monday.
Now the family hope a landscaped garden can be built there on the site — in memory of Clodagh and her three sons.
Locals welcomed the move to knock the infamous home.
One declared: “We hope Clodagh’s family can get some inner peace from it.”
Meanwhile, calls are growing for the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to publish a review into the murder investigation.
REOPEN INQUEST PLEA
Clodagh’s family also want a reopening of the inquest that took place in December 2017 to consider new information revealed since.
The 2017 inquest into the massacre heard locally-respected Hawe was “stressed” about losing his position as a “pillar of the community”.
The inquest did not address why Hawe committed the slaughter.
But The Irish Sun believes the deputy principal had feared the breakdown of his marriage and “a fall from grace” before the horror murder-suicide, involving a reported obsession with pornography.
RAMPAGE PLANNED
The Irish Sun also told how Hawe went to “blood-chilling” lengths to plan his killing rampage — and even transferred thousands of euro of family funds to his own account after his murder spree.
Clodagh’s family maintain Hawe “meticulously planned” the murders, and researched methods online.
They have challenged claims the tragedy was a spontaneous psychotic episode and insist it is wrong to suggest Hawe’s murderous rampage can be explained away as a violent, murderous act caused by depression.
