Evie [Adams] was removed from her birth family when she was very young and placed into foster care. David Wilson, Murder UK s1e2: Prescription Murder, ITV 2025
As Evie and Jordan [Monaghan] grow closer, she began to withdraw from those around her. ibid.
Monaghan is suspected of having killed his children. ibid.
The police are closing in. As part of the investigation, officers examined Jordan’s phone and accessed his WhatsApp messages. ibid.
Jordan was not only buying the drugs but also administering them to Evie. ibid.
Jordan Monaghan is found guilty of murdering his 21-month-old son, his 1-month-old daughter, and 23-year-old Evie Adams. ibid.
Birmingham, England: ‘John Worton … was quite eccentric, he was quite loud, overfriendly.’ David Wilson, Murder UK s1e3: A Dangerous Game, comment, ITV 2025
Suzanne [van Hagen] grows distant from her family. On the rare occassions that her family do see her, the changes in Suzanne are worrying. ibid.
‘We learned that John had got a history of domestic violence.’ ibid. family
Worton had spent nearly a decade behind bars for a succession of burglaries and violent robberies in 2000. ibid.
Worton had previously been sectioned under the provisions of the Mental Health Act. And he’d been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. ibid.
Her neighbour has made 27 calls to the police, 8 of them specifically about domestic abuse. Yet, John Worton was never arrested for any of those incidents. ibid.
‘They received a 999 call from a young girl saying that her dad is dead and bleeding from the mouth, and also mother is dead as well.’
‘Both John and Suzanne had a fatal does of PMA in them, which is a very high strain of ecstasy.’ ibid.
Gloucester, England, 2013: Hollie Gazzard, a millennial who who grows up in a classic middle England town. She and her sister are part of a loving family … Hollie is attracted to a young man with something of a past. As a schoolboy, he was no stranger to trouble. David Wilson, Murder UK s1e4: A Fatal Goodbye, ITV 2025
‘He is looking for someone to own, somebody to be in a long-term possession … completely different from her … He was obsessed.’ ibid. comment
Maslin had a very significant record of violence going back years, including a history of violence towards girlfriends and stalking. ibid.
We’re now beginning to see the coersive control that Maslin’s able to exercise over Hollie. ibid.
‘There was an escalation in his behaviour towards her.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Do you have a daughter called Hollie? And as soon as they [rozzers] said that, my heart sank.’ ibid. father