[Ammi]

...the mother was heavily pregnant...

A heavily pregnant woman who fell to her death at a car park before police discovered the bodies of her three young children has been named locally as Fiona Anderson

Suffolk Police said they were called out at 8am on Monday to the death of a woman in her 20s who suffered head injuries at a car park in Gordon Road.

Officers investigating the incident later found the children at a Victorian terraced house in London Road South

They were named by neighbours as Levina, three, Addy, two, and an 11-month-old baby boy, believed to have been called Kyden.

Outside the house a number of teddy bears had been left as tributes together with flower bouquets.

Visiting the scene, Mayor of Lowestoft, Nick Webb, said the community was in "absolute shock".

He said: "It is just incomprehensible what has happened here and so difficult to get your head around.

"My heartfelt sympathies go out to the families of those who have lost their loved ones."

Formal identification is expected to take place after post-mortem examinations by a Home Office pathologist at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston conclude

Police said they were treating the children's deaths as suspicious but added that there was no further threat to the wider community.

Detective Superintendent John Brocklebank, from Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said: "We are in the early stages of a large investigation into 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.

"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."

[arista]

"Loss: Fiona Anderson, aged in her early 20s,
is believed to have been heavily pregnant
when she died. Her three children
were found dead at her home three
hours after she fell from the car park"


"Father Craig McLellan pictured with
his children (left to right) Addy, Kyden and Levina.
The three were found dead in
their mother's flat this morning"

"Hours earlier, Fiona Anderson had posted desperate Facebook messages saying her partner had left her for another woman. "

So this Partner left her for a Woman with no kids
Thats so wrong.



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"She had been told her children could go into care"


I think Kizzy these facts are showing how tragic
this is.

[Cherie]

and how feckless some men are unfortunately.

[Vanessa]

How tragic! Those poor kids.

[Suze]

Normally if it looks like someone has taken the lives of their children as well as their own, it pisses me off that they didn't give their children the chance of life just because they themselves were in turmoil, I know that doesn't come across as at all sympathetic, but I can't help that I feel that way.

In this case however, if the mother did take their lives before maybe taking her own, I do feel for her, she was so young and must have not known which way to turn. However, usually warning signs are there, if not always that clear to read, maybe sometimes undetected cries for help in amongst their words, and it makes me so very sad that nothing or little is done to help such families in turmoil

This case is particularly sad, as the the family is very young and needed help of some kind, and the signs weren't picked up on What a waste of those four lives. Too, too sad This news item really tugged at my heart.

[Livia]

Four kids at her age. And contraception is free.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Livia

Four kids at her age. And contraception is free.

But she thought her partner would stay with her.
He dumped her for another woman.


So it adds up, sadly

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

Four kids at her age. And contraception is free.

Fair point, but she thought she was in a relationship, he should have been the one availing himself of the free contraceptives as family life wasn't for him it seems.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Fair point, but she thought she was in a relationship, he should have been the one availing himself of the free contraceptives as family life wasn't for him it seems.

I have to say that I don't know that many people who could afford to pop out four kids.

There are loads of different types of contraception for women, but as far as I'm aware, just two for men. And as it's the women that usually end up with the kids once it all gets too much, it's surely for the women to take some responsibility.

[AnnieK]

I have always said that if anything happened to my son I would have to "go" with him as I couldn't leave him on his own but to actually take the lives of your children, no matter how dire the circumstances, has got to be the work of an extremely desperate and unstable person.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

I have to say that I don't know that many people who could afford to pop out four kids.

There are loads of different types of contraception for women, but as far as I'm aware, just two for men. And as it's the women that usually end up with the kids once it all gets too much, it's surely for the women to take some responsibility.

Of course it is, I wouldn't let it to chance, but how many men "long" for a big family and how many silly women give it to them for the man to find actually the reality is a bit different and he is off. Personally I couldn't afford 4 kids, but that is not the issue here, the issue is he took off while she was still carrying his 4th child, I assume they are all his as I guess if they weren't it would be reported by now. She must have felt she was in a relatively stable relationship, nobody goes into a relationship with the view that it is going to end.... if that was the case none of us would ever buy a house, get married, have kids.

[Vicky.]

Saying she must have been mentally ill is just absolving her of responsibility for her vile actions. This woman was a monster IMO.

RIP to those innocent lives she stole

[Tom4784]

It's just a sad situation really and one that could have been prevented if only someone saw the signs.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Saying she must have been mentally ill is just absolving her of responsibility for her vile actions. This woman was a monster IMO.

RIP to those innocent lives she stole

But after her Partner left her
she thought Social Services would take her kids.

So its wrong
but she was not in a fit state of mind - I would think.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by arista

But after her Partner left her
she thought Social Services would take her kids.

So its wrong
but she was not in a fit state of mind - I would think.

sorry to sound blunt, but I dont care for the excuses at all.

Even if she thought the kids may be took off her, it takes a horrible person to kill their own children IMO. No amount of excuses will change my mind.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

sorry to sound blunt, but I dont care for the excuses at all.

Even if she thought the kids may be took off her, it takes a horrible person to kill their own children IMO. No amount of excuses will change my mind.

Yes that I agree with you.

[Vanessa]

It sounds like she had a mental breakdown. I can't believe no one saw the signs.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

It sounds like she had a mental breakdown. I can't believe no one saw the signs.

Girls in her street
on ITV1HD Lunchtime News
said she was having problems
but no one could help.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by arista

Girls in her street
on ITV1HD Lunchtime News
said she was having problems
but no one could help.

It's a shame. This could have been prevented if she got help.

[AnnieK]

Am not trying to absolve her of blame - Vicky is right, it is a monsterous thing to do - surely life is better for your children no matter what the circumstances and that is what a sane person would believe so it lead me to belive she was desperate and unbelievably unstable. It doesn't make what she did any less horrific.

[Cherie]

I read somewhere that the children's father said he knew it was her when he heard there had been a suicide.....if this is true then he has to shoulder some responsibility

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I read somewhere that the children's father said he knew it was her when he heard there had been a suicide.....if this is true then he has to shoulder some responsibility

Indeed, if he knew she was that unstable, why leave his 3 children in her care? And why dump her while she was heavily pregnant with his child and even more hormonal?

[Vanessa]

I think no sane person would ever hurt their kids. She wasn't in a fit state of mind.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by anniek76

Am not trying to absolve her of blame - Vicky is right, it is a monsterous thing to do - surely life is better for your children no matter what the circumstances and that is what a sane person would believe so it lead me to belive she was desperate and unbelievably unstable. It doesn't make what she did any less horrific.

But surely moving out to be with a childless woman (arista's report) and leaving 3 kids under 4 and your girlfriend heavily pregnant is equally monsterous, who is more likely to have been tipped over the edge in this scenario?

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Cherie

But surely moving out to be with a childless woman (arista's report) and leaving 3 kids under 4 and your girlfriend heavily pregnant is equally monsterous, who is more likely to have been tipped over the edge in this scenario?

That's true.