A grieving father wept today as he left tributes to his three young children, who appear to have been killed by their heavily pregnant mother, who then jumped to her own death.
Craig McLelland, 24, clung to his mother Mandy McLelland for support as he left a Winnie the Pooh balloon and a teddy bear outside the flat where the children died in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
He is thought to have split up with Fiona Anderson, 23, shortly before she fell 40ft to her death from a multi-storey car park, where she died at 8am on Monday along with his unborn baby.
Police found the bodies of their children Levina, three, Addy, two, and 11-month-old Kyden around three hours later at her ground floor flat half a mile away in London Road South.
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Emotional: A tearful Craig McLelland arrives at the home where his three children were found dead yesterday with his mother Mandy who comforted him as he lay a balloon and a toy
Scene: There has been a huge outpouring of grief in Lowestoft since the tragic events of yesterday, and dozens have laid tributes
Visit: Police let the distraught father through their strict cordon as the continue to investigate the suspicious deaths
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
Family: Father Craig McLellan pictured with his children (left to right) Addy Kyden and Levina. The three were found dead in their mother's flat
Unemployed Craig and his mother were allowed through a cordon of police tape for three minutes to look at floral tributes and around 40 cuddly toys and teddy bears left by well-wishers.
He refused to speak to reporters as he left, saying: 'Get out of my face'. He and Mandy, 44, hugged each other in a nearby car park before being driven away.
Mandy who also left flowers at the scene also declined to comment earlier at her home in Lowestoft. She would only say: 'I have lost everything - my whole family'.
Hours before her death yesterday, his ex Fiona Anderson had posted desperate Facebook messages saying her partner had left her for another woman, along with pictures of their unborn daughter.
The 23-year-old put up photographs of her three other 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 after apparently throwing herself off.
In her Facebook postings, Miss Anderson issued an emotional plea to Craig McLelland.
‘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.’
Children's father leaves flowers as neighbours rally together
Kyden McLelland (left), who was 11-months-old and Levina McLelland, three. It is not known how they died
Innocent: Addy McLelland was just two. He was found dead at the flat with his brother and sister
Investigation: Police outside the flat on London Road South where the three children were found
Happy siblings: Levina, Kyden and Addy in Halloween fancy dress
Precious: Levina in school uniform and a smiling Addy enjoying a joke
Grief: Craig McClelland, the father of the three dead children, at the scene. The mother is believed to have committed suicide by jumping from a multi-storey car park this morning
Support: Mr McClelland is comforted by a friend as he surveys the growing mountain of tributes
Death: Fiona Anderson also known as Fiona Chisholm, is said to have broken up with her partner before jumping from a car park
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.
Distraught: The pair had three children together and are believed to have recently split up
The body of the woman was found a short distance from the property where the three dead children were found
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.
Investigation: An officer guards the doorway to the flat today as forensics scour the rooms inside and messages continue to be left outside
Deaths: Police have sealed off this multi-storey car park in Lowestoft today after a woman fell to her death here, which led officers to discover her three children dead at home
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.’
Tribute: The mountain of cuddly toys at the property grew as people in the town arrived to pay their respects
Remembrance: A police community support officer joined those laying tributes to the children
The three children's bodies were taken to the James Paget Hospital at Gorleston for post-mortem examinations
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.’
Det Sup John Brocklebank described the deaths as 'an awful tragedy'
The property is a basement flat on the corner of Grosvenor Road and London Road South, a short distance from the sea
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.
Plunge: The town centre car park the woman is believed to have fallen from
The car park is less than a mile away from the flat where the woman's children were found dead
‘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.’
For confidential support about depression, call the Samaritans on 0845 790 9090 or visit a local Samaritans branch. Or click here to visit the charity's website.
Probe: Police say the investigation is in preliminary stages and have not formally identified the woman or the children
The deaths of the children are being treated as suspicious but police say they believe there is 'no threat to the wider community'
Craig McLelland, 24, clung to his mother Mandy McLelland for support as he left a Winnie the Pooh balloon and a teddy bear outside the flat where the children died in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
He is thought to have split up with Fiona Anderson, 23, shortly before she fell 40ft to her death from a multi-storey car park, where she died at 8am on Monday along with his unborn baby.
Police found the bodies of their children Levina, three, Addy, two, and 11-month-old Kyden around three hours later at her ground floor flat half a mile away in London Road South.
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Emotional: A tearful Craig McLelland arrives at the home where his three children were found dead yesterday with his mother Mandy who comforted him as he lay a balloon and a toy
Scene: There has been a huge outpouring of grief in Lowestoft since the tragic events of yesterday, and dozens have laid tributes
Visit: Police let the distraught father through their strict cordon as the continue to investigate the suspicious deaths
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
Family: Father Craig McLellan pictured with his children (left to right) Addy Kyden and Levina. The three were found dead in their mother's flat
Unemployed Craig and his mother were allowed through a cordon of police tape for three minutes to look at floral tributes and around 40 cuddly toys and teddy bears left by well-wishers.
He refused to speak to reporters as he left, saying: 'Get out of my face'. He and Mandy, 44, hugged each other in a nearby car park before being driven away.
Mandy who also left flowers at the scene also declined to comment earlier at her home in Lowestoft. She would only say: 'I have lost everything - my whole family'.
Hours before her death yesterday, his ex Fiona Anderson had posted desperate Facebook messages saying her partner had left her for another woman, along with pictures of their unborn daughter.
The 23-year-old put up photographs of her three other 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 after apparently throwing herself off.
In her Facebook postings, Miss Anderson issued an emotional plea to Craig McLelland.
‘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.’
Children's father leaves flowers as neighbours rally together
Kyden McLelland (left), who was 11-months-old and Levina McLelland, three. It is not known how they died
Innocent: Addy McLelland was just two. He was found dead at the flat with his brother and sister
Investigation: Police outside the flat on London Road South where the three children were found
Happy siblings: Levina, Kyden and Addy in Halloween fancy dress
Precious: Levina in school uniform and a smiling Addy enjoying a joke
Grief: Craig McClelland, the father of the three dead children, at the scene. The mother is believed to have committed suicide by jumping from a multi-storey car park this morning
Support: Mr McClelland is comforted by a friend as he surveys the growing mountain of tributes
Death: Fiona Anderson also known as Fiona Chisholm, is said to have broken up with her partner before jumping from a car park
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.
Distraught: The pair had three children together and are believed to have recently split up
The body of the woman was found a short distance from the property where the three dead children were found
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.
Investigation: An officer guards the doorway to the flat today as forensics scour the rooms inside and messages continue to be left outside
Deaths: Police have sealed off this multi-storey car park in Lowestoft today after a woman fell to her death here, which led officers to discover her three children dead at home
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.’
Tribute: The mountain of cuddly toys at the property grew as people in the town arrived to pay their respects
Remembrance: A police community support officer joined those laying tributes to the children
The three children's bodies were taken to the James Paget Hospital at Gorleston for post-mortem examinations
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.’
Det Sup John Brocklebank described the deaths as 'an awful tragedy'
The property is a basement flat on the corner of Grosvenor Road and London Road South, a short distance from the sea
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.
Plunge: The town centre car park the woman is believed to have fallen from
The car park is less than a mile away from the flat where the woman's children were found dead
‘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.’
For confidential support about depression, call the Samaritans on 0845 790 9090 or visit a local Samaritans branch. Or click here to visit the charity's website.
Probe: Police say the investigation is in preliminary stages and have not formally identified the woman or the children
The deaths of the children are being treated as suspicious but police say they believe there is 'no threat to the wider community'