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| A father struggling to cope with the break-up of his marriage has admitted murdering two of his children in the former family home. | A father struggling to cope with the break-up of his marriage has admitted murdering two of his children in the former family home. |
| Robert Thomson, 50, knifed his children Michelle, 25, and Ryan, seven, a total of 26 times on 3 May in Buckhaven, Fife, before trying to kill himself. | |
| The High Court in Edinburgh heard how their mother, June Thomson, discovered her children's blood-soaked bodies. | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how their mother, June Thomson, discovered her children's blood-soaked bodies. |
| Thomson will be sentenced next month. He faces life in prison. | |
| Judge Lord Menzies described the crime as "indescribably awful". | |
| The court heard that Thomson had sent another son to a local supermarket, then knifed his son and daughter to death in the empty house. | |
| His son Ross, 20, later returned with his girlfriend, Kay Wallace, and they went to his room to watch a DVD - unaware that the two bodies were lying in their bedrooms and that Thomson had turned the knife on himself. | |
| Thomson, worried by their on-going divorce proceedings, had left a suicide note urging June not to blame herself. | |
| The couple were going through a divorce to end their 27-year marriage. There had been a court hearing the day before the murders. | |
| The Thomsons also have an elder son, 27-year-old Shaun, who had left home to join the Army some time ago. |