'WE'LL HOLD HANDS IN HEAVEN'
FACE OF A KILLER: Shane Clancy
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Crazed knife killer Clancy's obsessed letters to his ex-love Jen
KNIFE Frenzy killer Shane Clancy wrote a series of obsessed love letters to his ex-girlfriend telling her they would be "together in heaven" months before his violent stabbing spree.
The 22-year-old never posted the letters but placed them on the mantlepiece of his flat before embarking on a night of bloody terror in August.
He bought a block of kitchen knives and went looking for former girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan and her new boyfriend Seb Creane.
He stabbed Seb to death and inflicted horrific injuries on Jennifer and Seb's brother Dylan before stabbing himself 19 times.
Clancy's mother Leonie Fennell defended her son on Friday's Late Late Show, telling viewers he was "heartbroken" and driven over the edge by anti-depressants.
However, letters he wrote indicate he was becoming increasingly obsessed with Jennifer months before the tragic events.
'JEN..WE'LLWALK HAND IN HAND TOGETHER IN HEAVEN'
Shane Clancy's chilling note before neighstabbing frenzy that ended in death
KILLER Shane Clancy wrote a series of chilling letters to his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Hannigan in the months before his knife frenzy describing how they would "walk hand-in-hand together in heaven".
The letters, which were never posted, were discovered in his bedsit in Dalkey along with a suicide note to his mum Leonie in which he apologised for his actions but said he had to do what he did.
The letters were left on the mantelpiece in the flat on the night of his terrifying murder-suicide spree that left 22-year-old Seb Creane dead and his brother Dylan (28) and Clancy's ex-girlfriend Jennifer (22) horrifically injured.
Clancy's mum Leonie Fennell last week insisted that it was psychiatric drugs that drove her son to kill.
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She has claimed that the 22-yearold student started taking the medication just TWO weeks before he drove Seb Creane home after a night out and returned after purchasing a block of knives at a latenight Dunnes Stores shop in August.
She says her son was never violent and never suffered from mental illness but became "unrecognisable" after he started taking the drugs he was prescribed for depression he was suffering because of his break-up with Jennifer.
She told the Sunday World last week that his death is a legacy of the dangers of psychiatric drugs.
"Shane wouldn't have hurt a fly. He was never violent. I am still proud of him," she said.
"There was nothing wrong with him before he started taking the medication. He was perfectly normal. It was the medication that
made him do what he did."
He had become increasingly obsessed with Jennifer in the months leading up to the tragic events.
The disturbing letters discovered at his home show how he fantasised about being together with Jennifer in heaven as far back as last May.
They show his state of mind as he obsessed over student Jennifer, from whom he had split the previous February after a three-year
romance.
Over the summer she took a holiday in Thailand and Clancy flew out there too. His family said that they had suggested he take a break after cancelling a planned charity trip to India.
Chilling
Jennifer
Heartbroken: Jennifer looks shattered at boyfriend Seb's funeral
They have refuted claims that he went to Asia to follow Jennifer and say he was instead visiting a relative there.
However, Clancy penned one of the chilling letters to Jennifer while in Thailand, indicating to her that if she read it they would be back together again.
Clancy had been attending a counsellor in the months leading up to his death. He had also attended three different doctors and spoken to a priest.
He had tried to overdose in the weeks before the Bray massacre but friends say he only took enough drugs to fall into a deep sleep.
Clancy stabbed himself 19 times in the garden of the Creane Home at Cuala Grove in Bray.
He had burst into the house in the early hours of the morning armed with a knife shortly after Jennifer arrived to spend the night with new boyfriend Seb.
It is believed that Seb tried to reason with the six-foot student in the kitchen of his parents' home while Jennifer hid in another room.
After he was stabbed, Seb stumbled up the stairs in a desperate bid to get help from his brother Dylan. Although Jennifer did not
see Seb being stabbed, she made her way into the kitchen after hearing the commotion. On seeing his ex-girlfriend, Clancy then turned the knife on her, breaking it in her back as she tried to run away.
Crazed
They believe that her life was saved because Dylan burst in and tried to disarm the crazed killer, who then grabbed another knife
from a kitchen worktop.
He did not realise that his brother's wounds were fatal and that he was dying in a bedroom upstairs as he grappled with the Trinity student.
SURVIVOR: Dylan looks ashen-faced at Seb’s funeral
Dylan was knifed eight times and suffered a punctured lung before Clancy went into the garden in search of Jennifer.
It is believed he may have scaled walls and searched for her in neighbouring properties while gardai arrived at the scene. He died from the same fatal injury as his victim Seb, who died after the knife severed the main artery to the heart.
During her son's funeral mass, heartbroken Nuala Creane delivered a passionate eulogy saying that while her son and Clancy were the same age and shared the same initials, Seb represented the light and Clancy represented the darkness.
A team of detectives are still putting a case together for future Coroner Court hearings into the deaths of Seb and Clancy, which are likely to be held next year.
They have still not got the results of toxicology tests which they believe will show traces of the prescribed psychiatric drugs.
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