Liam Hogan

Liam Stephen Hogan 

May 30 2000 - August 15 2006

Age: 6 years old 

Liam was born to John and Natasha Hogan. In 2006, they were going through problems with their marriage. One day John had discovered some flirtatious emails exchanged between Natasha and an old school friend of hers. Natasha had also been looking into divorce on the internet. John was feeling emotional stress at the prospect of distancing and separating from loved ones. He has a great need to express his feelings and especially feelings of love, but an even greater need for others to express their feelings towards him. To help ease their marriage they booked a holiday in Crete. They arrived at the hotel on 11th August. Although they had booked a ground-floor, pool-side apartment, they were shown to room 446, on the top floor, over the hotel entrance and facing a busy main road. Spotting the balcony, Natasha was immediately worried about their children's safety.

John had spent the fourth day of the holiday on his own, turning inwards, as his family had always done, returning only at 4pm, to challenge Natasha as to whether she had made a decision about leaving him. The argument had started later that evening. John had shouted to Natasha, “If you think you're living in that house with the kids ... you're not, I'll burn it to the ground." The argument kept going and John wanted to leave and go home. The next plane had only three seats to spare and Natasha said that she was going to use those three seats but leave John there. They kept arguing at the hotel bar. When they got back to their room, John had started packing the suit cases.

At this point, Liam was getting very upset and cried to Natasha “You’re splitting up!” Natasha had a little talk with Liam while John packed the suitcases. Natasha stopped to have a look at the state of the suitcases and she thought to herself “These are never going to close. The clothes and everything were just piled in.” She tried to sort the cases out her self and John retaliated to her actions. He started shouting “My packing is f***ing c**p!” He was throwing all the contents of the suitcases all over the room. Liam was screaming at this point because John had frightened him with his actions.

While Natasha was clearing up the mess and started packing the suitcases, there was a deadly silence and that was when she had discovered that John had gone over the balcony with Liam and his 2 year old sister Mia. Natasha had called an ambulance and went down to help her injured children. Within minutes, Liam and Mia had been taken to the nearby hospital. The doctor’s tried all they could to resuscitate Liam but he died shortly after arrival. Liam had suffered multiple head injuries from the fall. John and Mia suffered broken limbs ando they both survived. 

John Hogan was later acquitted of Liam's murder, and instead spent several years in a psychiatric hospital.