Lowestoft: Tributes Paid To Dead Mum And Kids

By Emma Birchley, East Of England Correspondent

The father of three children found dead in a Lowestoft flat wept in his mother's arms after returning to the scene.

Craig McLelland pored over the growing pile of cuddly toys and read the cards left in memory of Levina, aged three, Addy, two, and 11-month-old Kyden.

Levina

The police made the discovery on Monday morning, three hours after the children's heavily pregnant mother was found at the foot of a multi-storey car park in the town.

The air ambulance attended but the woman, named locally as Fiona Anderson, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Addy

Mr McLelland was too upset to comment. Earlier his mother Mandy spoke only to say that she had lost everything, her whole family.

Karleigh Burlingham had been good friends with Ms Anderson and she and the children used to stay overnight.

Kyden

She said: "I''m devastated. It still hasn't sunk in. She must have been the lowest of the low to do something like that because those children were her life.

"They were brilliant kids. They were so polite."

Just hours before her body was found, Ms Anderson had written desperate messages on Facebook.

Craig McLelland

"Levina, Addy, Kyden, Evalie. Mummy loves you so much and I'll always be there looking after you all."

It is believed she and Craig had recently split up. She wrote: "Craig was all we had. Now he's gone."

The final words she posted said simply: "I'll keep them safe."

Ms Anderson also added single pictures of each of her children as well as a scan of her unborn child. Ms Burlingham said she had not spotted the messages in time.

Flowers laid at the scene

She said: "I just wish I had seen them so that I could have gone round there and helped her and spoken to her."

Leon Cook, 18, said the pair had lived with his family after Levina was born.

He said: "I never thought she would do it. I wouldn't know what she was going through."

Messages of condolence have been left at the scene

He added that Mr McLelland had always been a good dad.

Post-mortem examinations are being carried out at James Paget Hospital in nearby Gorleston. Formal identification of the bodies will then follow.

Det Supt John Brocklebank, who is leading the investigation, said there is no definitive explanation of the circumstances surrounding the deaths.

Tributes paid to the children

He said: "We are developing a picture. There is the collection of witness statements, the collection of CCTV and house-to-house.

"We keep an open mind because we don't know exactly what has happened."

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