Smoking pot from the age of 12 drove knifeman to kill four

A knifeman who stabbed three generations of his girlfriend’s family to death was driven to manic behaviour by his cannabis use, a court heard. Joshua Jacques, 29, denies murdering girlfriend Samantha Drummonds, 27, her mother Tanysha Ofori-Akuffo, 45, her grandmother Dolet Hill, 64, and Ms Hill’s husband, chef Denton Burke, 58. The ‘bloodbath’ took place at Mr Burke’s and Ms Hill’s home on Delaford Road, Bermondsey, southeast London, in the early hours of 25 April last year. Hours before the…