A British man has received three life sentences for murdering two of his children and a girlfriend and will spend at least 40 years behind bars before parole. Jordan Monaghan, 30, was convicted on Friday by a jury at Preston Crown Court of the three murders. Construction worker Monaghan smothered his 24-day old daughter, Ruby, in his home in Blackburn on New Year’s Day 2013 while Laura Gray, 28, his then partner and the child’s mother was asleep upstairs. Eight months later, he took their 21-month-old son Logan to a public swimming pool and smothered him in a changing room cubicle. The two children’s deaths were both investigated as sudden and unexplained events but the girl’s death was attributed to bronchiolitis and Logan’s cause of death remained “unascertained.” A review was carried out by Lancashire Police after further information came to light and Monaghan was arrested and bailed on suspicion …
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