Pressing need to understand root causes of ‘horrendous cases’, says St Patrick’s chief
The chief executive of St Patrick’s Mental Health Services has said Clodagh Hawe’s family are doing the State a “massive service” by asking for an investigation into the murder of Hawe and her three sons.
They believe the deaths were linked to an issue he had at work and not depression as inquest evidence into the deaths suggested. Alan Hawe took his own life after killing his wife and children. “There’s a lot of stigma around mental health and we’re adding to that stigma if we don’t investigate these acts further to see if, and when, they can actually be attributed to mental health difficulties,” said Mr Gilligan.“We need the true facts. The family are doing us a massive service by asking for the investigation to be reopened,” he said.
Ms Coll and Ms Connolly called on Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to establish a special investigation unit for familicide and family annihilation. They also suggested that in such cases once an inquest concludes a book of evidence should be published. She called for a review of domestic homicides and for legislation to address the issue. “We need answers. Why are women and children being killed; this can happen again,” she warned.
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