Charge after child killer is slashed

A FEMALE prisoner has been charged with assaulting the child killer Theresa Riggi after she was allegedly slashed.

Riggi, 47, who is serving 16 years for the culpable homicide of her three young children, is said to have been left screaming in agony after she was attacked while in her cell.

Both are inmates at Scotland’s only all-female jail, Cornton Vale Prison, near Stirling.

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Riggi has been serving time since killing twin sons Austin and Luke, eight, and daughter Cecilia, five, in her flat in Edinburgh in August last year.

A Central Scotland Police spokeswoman said yesterday: “A 39-year-old woman has been charged with assault to injury.”

A report on the prisoner is to be sent to the procurator fiscal.

The police move comes just days after a 22-year-old woman in the prison was charged with assaulting Riggi, after she was allegedly thrown down a flight of stairs.

Riggi stabbed her three children to death over fears she would lose the youngsters to her husband Pasquale, 47, in a custody battle.

The children’s bodies were discovered at Riggi’s flat in Slateford Road, Edinburgh, following a gas explosion at the building.

California-born Riggi was found badly injured after plunging from a second-floor balcony in an apparent suicide bid.

A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said it did not “comment on individual prisoners”.

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