Family’s history of mental illness

LIKE his two brothers, who both killed themselves, John Hogan has been dogged with clinical depression since childhood.

But he had stopped taking antidepressants seven months before he leapt from a fourth-floor balcony with son Liam and daughter Mia in August 2006.

At a previous court hearing, Hogan said he might have been driven to the incident because his “mental functions” were unhinged.