{"id":302995,"date":"2026-01-25T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:31:11","slug":"my-father-the-double-murderer-youngest-son-of-infamous-colin-howell-on-the-day-their-lives-fell-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/302995\/","title":{"rendered":"My father, the double murderer: Youngest son of infamous Colin Howell on the day their lives fell apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Jonathan Clarke describes his shellshock on hearing his father Colin Howell was a double murderer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colin Howell. Photo: Mohammad Husban\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769351471_341_SN Colin Howell.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Colin Howell. Photo: Mohammad Husban<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jonathan Clarke was in his final year at school when he learned that his religious, authoritarian father was in fact a murderer who had killed his mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cSomeone from the church picked me up from school, which was not normal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Clarke describes his shellshock on hearing his father Colin Howell was a double murderer Colin Howell. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3412,9,10,13,14,6,11,12,5649,15,16,5,101039,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-302995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-maeve-sheehan","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115956225501706783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}