A heavily pregnant mother jumped
to her death yesterday after apparently killing her three young children. Hours
earlier, Fiona Anderson had posted desperate Facebook messages saying her
partner had left her for another woman The 23-year-old put up photographs of
her three children with the message: ‘Mummy will always love you and I’ll never
leave you,' adding later: 'I'll keep them safe'. But she was found dead at the
foot of a car park at 8am after apparently throwing herself from the
multi-storey building Police officers were dispatched to her home half a mile
away and found the bodies of her children – Levina, three, Addy, two, and Kyden,
11 months. In her Facebook postings, Miss Anderson issued an emotional plea to
Craig McLelland, the father of her children.
‘All we did was love you,’ she
wrote. ‘We never gave up on you. You have hurt us so much for so long. I gave
you everything I could. Your kids worshipped you like a god.’
Miss Anderson then posted
pictures of each of her children and wrote messages about how much she loved
them.
‘The most beautiful things I have ever seen. Love you babies so
much,’ she wrote.
In a final message she posted a scan picture of a baby and wrote
that she was due to give birth on June 10 to a girl she would call Evalie.
Last night, Mr McLelland arrived at Miss Anderson’s home
close to the seafront in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Choking back tears, he said: ‘I
have just lost my family. My children are dead. What would you be feeling? ‘I
found out this morning when I got a phone call saying somebody had committed
suicide and I had a feeling who it was.’
When asked whether he had left
Miss Anderson for another woman, Mr McLelland, who lives in Lowestoft, broke
down and declined to comment.
Miss Anderson is thought to have fallen 40ft to her death in
Gordon Road. Her children were found three hours later.
Police are awaiting the results of post-mortem examinations to be
carried out by a Home Office pathologist at the James Paget Hospital in
Gorleston near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Detective Superintendent John Brocklebank, of the Norfolk and
Suffolk major investigation team, last night described the deaths as ‘an awful
tragedy’.
He said: ‘We are in the early stages of a large investigation to
try and work out exactly what has happened. It is too early to be able to come
up with a definitive explanation and we will be keeping an open mind.
‘We are treating the deaths of the children as suspicious, but
from our initial enquiries we do not believe there is any threat to the wider
community.
‘Our priorities now are to establish the circumstances behind the
woman’s death and how it may be related to the deaths of the three children.’
Mr Brocklebank said police were
alerted by a 999 call from a member of the public who found a woman lying on
the ground beside the car park with serious injuries.
He added: ‘Emergency services including ambulances and an air
ambulance arrived and they did what they could to try and resuscitate her, but
unfortunately she was pronounced dead at the scene.
‘We managed to identify the lady concerned which led us to the
address. Police officers gained access at 11.20am and the bodies of the
children were tragically found inside.
‘I don’t want to speculate about how they died and where the
bodies were in the property. We believe she was the mother of the young children.’
Miss Anderson’s ground floor flat
was cordoned off by police last night while officers searched for clues. Neighbours
and friends were last night putting cuddly toys and flowers on a makeshift
shrine outside the flat in a mark of respect.
Karleigh Burlingham, 20, who
lives nearby, said: ‘She was a lovely person.
‘She just didn’t seem the sort of mother to do this. It is devastating
that three innocent little children have died.
‘I knew her for three or four
years and I thought she was a brilliant mother.
‘Her kids were healthy and well
brought up. Fiona was outgoing and friendly. She would talk to anyone and she
was very laid back.
‘But her boyfriend left her about a month or so ago for someone
else. She was heavily pregnant with a baby girl due next month.’
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