Killings that captured the nation’s attention

Dannotage estates, the picturesque suburban community in eastern New Providence was created by Daniel Nottage from Eleuthera. Dannotage estates was home to the well known and well off in The Bahamas In 1980 the Hanna family moved in a split level home on a huge lot. The family consisted of 4 children, 3 of which attended queens college. The father Percival hanna worked at the trade development bank and the mother worked at Bahamasair The Hannas could be described as the perfect family on the surface but there was a lot that went on behind closed doors. The mother, Vernice was under psychiatric care for alcohol abuse and the son Kevin was under psychiatric care since the age of 8, the parents were advised to take Kevin to a mental hospital but the parents refused. Another mother in the neighborhood described Kevin as troubled because he would stay for hours at her house as if he didn't want to go home On August 5th 1984 Kevin left his family at home watching the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he walked to montague beach then came back home a little after midnight and killed his entire family. His sisters ages 8 and 15, his brother age 16 and both parents. In a police confession Kevin says he shot his father and cut off his hands and legs, he also confessed to using a wheelbarrow to load his mother, brother and sister in the car He drove what was left of his family in a chevy Malibu classic to Gladstone road and set the car on fire. He rode his bike home after. The next morning Kevin called the police to the home where they found bits and pieces of flesh, brain and bone and a blood trail that led to the back patio. Kevin’s legal team was made up of Phillip brave Davis and Thomas Evans. Kevin has no emotion during trial and was described as a person with very serious mental disturbances In court Dr Neville said that 19 year old Kevin suffered from grandiose and paranoid delusions. At the end of the 6 day the jury’s verdict was read The jury found Kevin not guilty of murdering his father, mother, brother and two sisters but they found him unanimously guilty of manslaughter by “reason of diminished responsibility” Information retrieved from the 2008 newspaper article below and “westward:the walk of a Bahamian doctor”