Slateford fire: Couple's bitter custody battle

THE bitter custody battle which drove Theresa Riggi into hiding in Edinburgh had seen the children sent to visits with their father equipped with phones and personal alarms.

A court heard that Mrs Riggi objected to her estranged husband, Pasquale, seeing the children. They had argued over issues including schooling as Mrs Riggi was a believer in home schooling.

On Tuesday a Court of Session judge said the children should be supervised by social workers until their parents had settled their bitter divorce battle.

Mrs Riggi disappeared from Skene, near the Westhill area in Aberdeen on July 11 and police were called in.

Slateford fire: Read more

• Stunned residents rushed to woman's aid

• Police to question mum after children stabbed to death

• Misguided belief in an 'act of mercy'