Riggi 'tried to kill herself four times'

A WOMAN who killed her three children in Edinburgh has reportedly told how she made four suicide attempts before throwing herself off a balcony.

Theresa Riggi, who admitted the culpable homicide of her children on the grounds of diminished responsibility this week, tried to take her own life on the day of the killings.

She told a fellow inmate at Corton Vale prison in Stirling how she believed her failed suicide bids showed her youngsters didn't want her to die. She also said she missed her children and wanted to be with them.

Riggi took the lives of eight-year-old twins Austin and Luke, and their sister Cecilia, five, in August last year at their Slateford home.