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.’
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
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
But she was found dead at the foot of a car park at 8am after apparently throwing herself from the multi-storey buildingPolice 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.’
Happy siblings: Levina, Kyden and Addy in Halloween fancy dress
Precious: Levina in school uniform and a smiling Addy enjoying a joke
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 this morning
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
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: Police outside the house on London Road South where the three children were found
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
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
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.’
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'
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