Joshua Jacques pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Dolet Hill, 64. her husband, Denton Burke, 58; Their daughter Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45; and granddaughter Samantha Drummonds, 27. Samantha’s boyfriend Zac, 28, attacked three generations of Hill’s family at their home in Bermondsey, south London, on Monday, April 25. Police had been called to a disturbance at the property in the early hours of the morning and forced entry. They found Burke’s body at the foot of the stairs and the bodies of the three women in the kitchen. All had multiple stab wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene. Officers discovered Zach hiding in the upstairs bathroom. During the first court hearing in May, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told how “the defendant was found naked in the upstairs bathroom having made contact with his mother”. Jacques, from Lewisham, south-east London, was Tasered during his arrest and taken into custody at Brixton police station, where he has been charged with four counts of murder. On Friday, Zac appeared for a hearing at the Old Bailey before Judge Richard Marks KC. He denied four counts of murder but admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The prosecution said the pleas to the lesser offense would not be accepted by the Crown and the case would go to trial. Following the deaths, a Gofundme page set up to help pay for funeral costs said the extended family had been left “really devastated”. Hill was married to Burke, a council worker, for 15 years. He had worked in the NHS for more than 20 years as a housekeeper at Guy’s Hospital and had recently had cancer surgery. Ofori-Akuffo was a nurse who worked with her mother to raise money for charity and was described as “a loving wife, a loving mother and a great friend”. Her daughter, Samantha, was “an optimistic, fun-loving, bright young lady who adored her grandmother Dolette,” the family said. At his first trial in May, Jacques greeted his aunt in the public gallery and tapped his chest twice as he was led to the cells.
