Mother falls to death and children are found killed

A young mother plunged to her death from a multi-storey car park on Monday before her three young children were found dead in her flat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Clockwise from left: Kyden, 11 months, Evina, 3, Addy, 2, and mother Fiona Anderson, also known as Fiona Chisholm

 

The woman was named as Fiona Anderson, in her early 20s, and was believed to have been heavily pregnant.

Friends described her as a “brilliant mother” who was devoted to her children, Levina, three; Addy, two; and Kyden, 11 months. The friends suggested she had been depressed after splitting up with her boyfriend, Craig McLelland, who was the father of her children.

One friend said Miss Anderson had left a message on her Facebook page on Sunday saying: “My babies will go with me.”

Police are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination and are keeping an “open mind” about the four deaths, but it is believed they are investigating a theory that Miss Anderson killed her children before jumping to her death.

Miss Anderson is thought to have fallen 40ft to her death at 8am from the top of the town centre car park in Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her children’s bodies were found by police at 11.20am in their home about half a mile from the car park, which was cordoned off by police last night.

 

 

 

 Craig McClelland, the father of the three dead children, at the scene

 

Suffolk Police were called to an incident in Gordon Road shortly after 8am following reports that a woman’s body had been found in the street.

It is believed she fell from a car park and sustained severe head injuries. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A short time later officers attended the woman’s address around one and a half miles away in London Road South where they discovered the bodies of her three children aged, three, two and eleven months.

Police are treating their deaths as suspicious and they will be taken to the James Paget Hospital at Gorleston for post-mortem examinations by a Home Office pathologist.

A police spokesman said while formal identification had not yet taken place it is believed the children are those of the dead woman.