Monday: Sky News [link]

After the trial was adjourned, Mrs Hogan said: “It has come as somewhat of a shock that the court has come to this point they cannot reach a verdict.”

The trial has now adjorned for Monday and will restart on Wednesday: below is clippings from Monday’s media coverage

8.10am: John Hogan has pleaded not guilty to murder telling the court he “did not plan to kill”.

8.30am: From BBC News [link]

In a statement read out by a police officer outside court, Mrs Hogan said the past few months had been “trying” and added: “I feel that I am able in that respect to speak for both sides of the family.”

She said: “I am able to say that Mia is much better now and has made a full recovery from the injuries sustained that day. She is in regular contact with John’s side of the family and enjoys a loving and caring relationship.”

Natasha features on Tonight with Trevor McDonald on ITV1 on Monday evening.

9.15am: BBC News [link]

The hearing, involving a panel of three judges and a jury, is likely to last several days. The jury has been warned of delays, however.

9.15am: The Daily Telegraph [link]

Asked if he had any message for his former wife, Natasha, Hogan cried and said: “Tell her I love.” He added: “Tell my daughter I’m sorry”.

10.00am: BBC News [link]

Natasha Hogan: “I am able to say that Mia is much better now and has made a full recovery from the injuries sustained that day. She is in regular contact with John’s side of the family and enjoys a loving and caring relationship.”

11.00am: BBC News [link]

Mrs Hogan said that on the day of the incident her husband had become increasingly angry and agitated. She said the couple had been packing to go home early and she had had her back to Mr Hogan.

14.10pm: Sky News (includes video) [link]

For the 20 or so British journalists covering the case, the atmosphere was confused and chaotic, as proceedings went ahead in Greek.

14.30pm: Bristol Evening Post [link]

Prof Nestoros, who conducted a series of interviews with Hogan, added: “He did not even remember he was on the fourth floor - this man was not in a clear state of mind.”

Some links out to previews of the trial of Bradley Stoke man John Hogan’s trial which starts on Monday:

The Times: [link]

It was an act that defied the natural instincts of any normal parent. Nearly 18 months ago John Hogan leapt 50ft from his fourth floor hotel balcony in Crete clutching his two young children.

Press Association: [link]

A British father accused of murdering his six-year-old son when he jumped off a hotel balcony was being taken back to the Greek island where it happened to face trial.

The Daily Mail: [link]

A devastated mother is preparing to relive the moment her son died after her husband leapt from a hotel balcony clutching the six-year-old.

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John Hogan, from Bradley Stoke, has been moved to a jail in Crete ahead of his trial on charges of murdering his son Liam while on holiday.

Mr Hogan is accused of the murder of the six-year-old and the attempted murder of his daughter Mia, 2, after they plunged from a hotel balcony on the holiday island.

The trail is set to begin on January 21.

Natasha Hogan has refused to let her ex-husband, John, see their child Mia who was involved in a plunge from a balcony in Crete.

John, Mia and their son, Liam, fell from a balcony on the Greek island. John and Mia survived by Liam, 6, died.

John, from Bradley Stoke, has since been charged with the murder of Liam and the attempted murder or Mia and is awaiting trial in Greece.

Natasha told the Bristol Evening Post: “I don’t want him to see Mia because of what he has done. He can’t. But I’ll explain things to her when she is older.”

Read the full story here.

A man charged with the murder of his son in a hotel balcony fall has been told he must spend a further six months in jail awaiting trial, reports The Evening Post.

John Hogan, of Bradley Stoke, jumped over the balcony of a Greek hotel with his six-year-old son Liam and daughter Mia, then aged two, a year ago today.

Wheatfield Primary School pupil Liam died, Mia broke her arm and 33-year-old Hogan broke his leg and wrist in the 50ft fall from a fourth-floor balcony at the Petra Mare Hotel in Ierapetra, Crete.

Hogan, who ran a tiling business in Bristol, has been charged with the premeditated murder of his son and attempted murder of his daughter.

He has been in prison since his release from hospital.