Joshua Jacques: Killer jailed for 46 years for ‘sacrificial’ murders | UK News [Video]

A man who brutally murdered his girlfriend and three members of her familyin a drink and drug-fuelled rage has been jailed.

Joshua Jacques, 29, attacked Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, her grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and her partner, Denton Burke, 68, at a home in Bermondsey, south-east London, in April 2022.

He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 46 years in a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday.

A court heard he stabbed his victims to death in the middle of the night in a particularly ‘violent and brutal’ rampage.

Prosecutors said he joined a series of FaceTime calls with his mother that night, including one shortly after 2am in which he said: ‘I’m ending it, I’m gonna make a sacrifice.’

Police found Mr Burke’s body at the foot of the stairs and the other victims ‘heaped together’ in the kitchen.

Jacques was found naked in a …