Husband who murdered mother and three sons then hanged himself was a cross-dressing porn addict who killed family because it was 'easier for them to die than live with truth', wife's relatives reveal

he killer father who murdered his wife and three sons then hanged himself was today exposed as a cross dresser who watched pornography on a school laptop.

Alan Hawe, 40, killed his wife Clodagh, 39, and sons Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and Ryan, six, in August 2016 in Virginia in County Cavan, Ireland, before taking his own life.

Clodagh's family have now spoken out to describe Hawe as 'evil' and rejected claims he was suffering from depression when he killed his wife and children.

Her mother Mary Coll and sister Jacqueline Connolly told of the premeditated way Hawe killed his family, slashing his sons' throats so they couldn't cry out to alert each other and killing his wife and eldest sons first so they couldn't fight.

Ms Connolly told RTÉ's Claire Byrne Live last night: 'He was looking at pornography on the school laptop and he never brought the school laptop home.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6746345/Killer-husbands-cross-dressing-dark-secret-exposed.html

What a scumbag, why do these suicidel people like to take their children with 'em when they decide to end it ?

The guy sounds pretty selfish.  Sometimes the parent thinks s/he's the only one who can care for the children.  Sometimes the children are symbols for the anger going on.  Sometimes it is just in the details going on in the family.  I think of Andrea Yeats, and still can't figure it out.

Virginia is not in Ireland, btw.

Original Quill wrote:The guy sounds pretty selfish.  Sometimes the parent thinks s/he's the only one who can care for the children.  Sometimes the children are symbols for the anger going on.  Sometimes it is just in the details going on in the family.  I think of Andrea Yeats, and still can't figure it out.

Virginia is not in Ireland, btw.

Virginia is the second largest town in County Cavan, Ireland

HoratioTarr wrote:

Original Quill wrote:The guy sounds pretty selfish.  Sometimes the parent thinks s/he's the only one who can care for the children.  Sometimes the children are symbols for the anger going on.  Sometimes it is just in the details going on in the family.  I think of Andrea Yeats, and still can't figure it out.

Virginia is not in Ireland, btw.

Virginia is the second largest town in County Cavan, Ireland

No kidding? I couldn't find it mentioned in the article anywhere....thus my comment.

Original Quill wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

Virginia is the second largest town in County Cavan, Ireland

No kidding?  I couldn't find it mentioned in the article anywhere....thus my comment.

IT's there in black and white!

Alan Hawe, 40, killed his wife Clodagh, 39, and sons Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and Ryan, six, in August 2016 in Virginia in County Cavan, Ireland, before taking his own life.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

No kidding?  I couldn't find it mentioned in the article anywhere....thus my comment.

IT's there in black and white!

Alan Hawe, 40, killed his wife Clodagh, 39, and sons Liam, 13, Niall, 11, and Ryan, six, in August 2016 in Virginia in County Cavan, Ireland, before taking his own life.

Yep. Missed it. It happens.

Evil perverted bastard.
He should have slit his own throat and left his innocent wife and the three lovely kids to live their lives without him.

Syl wrote:Evil perverted bastard.
He should have slit his own throat and left his innocent wife and the three lovely kids to live their lives without him.

Or better yet, learned to accept that he likes cross-dressing (nothing wrong with it), gotten help to overcome his porn addiction and then he and his family would have a shot at happy lives.

>THE Ben Reilly< wrote:

Syl wrote:Evil perverted bastard.
He should have slit his own throat and left his innocent wife and the three lovely kids to live their lives without him.

Or better yet, learned to accept  that he likes cross-dressing (nothing wrong with it), gotten help to overcome his porn addiction and then he and his family would have a shot at happy lives.

Masturbating and watching porn in school on the school computer (was he a teacher, I dont think the article says) is pretty perverted. He seemed to have lived a double life.