six months later
BBC BREAKING NEWS
The body of Jasper Allen Black, the 37-year-old brother of Jessamine Black and son of Allen and Annie Black, the so- called Vale of Health Killers, has been found in woods near the village of Little Belmont in Dorset. Mr. Black had last been seen alive two weeks before the discovery of eight sets of human remains in the basement of his childhood home in the exclusive Vale of Health enclave in Hampstead, North London. Daisy Black, 20, who was believed to be the daughter of Jessamine Black but has now been proved to be the daughter of Claire Connolly, the Blacks’ final victim, traced Black using the online forum Reddit. Upon her confronting him with her belief that he was not in fact her uncle and that the young woman who’d last been seen outside the Blacks’ property twenty years earlier was her real mother, Jasper Black tried to kill Daisy by strangulation, before escaping. It is believed that Mr. Black took his own life shortly thereafter. Mr. Black, a circus performer known professionally as Patch the Clown, has also been reported as being behind a scattering of antisocial interactions with young women at night, forcing himself upon them while dressed in the attire of a clown and appearing to be aroused by instilling terror in his victims. The circus that employed Mr.
Black for the last eighteen years is currently preparing a statement, but a colleague at Martello’s told a reporter earlier today that Mr. Black was known as a loner and an
“oddbod.” It is not known what, if any, involvement Mr. Black had with the atrocities that took place in his childhood “house of horrors,” and his sister, Jessamine Black, is currently hospitalized in an addiction rehabilitation center in Surrey, awaiting trial for manslaughter charges in the case of her mother’s death, and has not been able to comment.
