‘He didn’t mean to kill my children’, says wife

SITTING just a few feet away in a Crete court, Natasha Hogan shared a room with her ex-husband yesterday for the first time since he was charged with their son’s murder.

The 35-year-old had not spoken to John Hogan since he jumped with their children during the fateful holiday in 2006. The only contact she made was when her solicitor sent him divorce papers.

Mrs Hogan, who has sold their Bristol house, has started a new life with paramedic Richard Visser, with whom she is living in Newport. Some sources say the couple have married in secret.