A mother who stabbed her three children to death in their Edinburgh home has been found dead at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.
Theresa Riggi, 49 killed her eight-year-old twins Augustino and Gianluca and five-year-old daughter Cecilia at a flat in Edinburgh’s Slateford Road in August 2010.
She was originally charged with murder but the Crown accepted a plea of culpable homicide due to diminished responsibility.
At the trial, Lord Bracadale said that the killings were a “devastating family tragedy” and sentenced the American to 16 years imprisonment.
The trial heard that Riggi suffered from narcissistic, paranoid and hysterical personality disorders.
After a number of alleged attacks she was moved to Rampton from the all-female Cornton Vale Prison, near Stirling.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
