Twins' mother killed on motorway

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The husband of a new mother whose body was found on a motorway in Hampshire has said he believes she was suffering from post-natal depression.

Heather Finkill, 30, from Pinewood Park, Farnborough, was discovered on the M3, close to junction 4a, on the morning of 2 January.

Mrs Finkill and her husband Ryan had become parents to twin girls, Lacey and Isabelle, two weeks earlier.

Police are investigating how Mrs Finkill came to be on the motorway.

Mr Finkill, 38, said he had discussed his wife's state of mind with her and she had agreed to see a doctor the next day.

He also described how he found the crash scene as he drove to look for her.

This awful thought came into my head - 'I hope she has not walked on to the motorway' Ryan Finkill

But he said he did not believe Mrs Finkill had meant to kill herself.

He said: "The night before she died we were sat together in the living room but Heather did not seem herself at all.

"She was looking at me but it was as if she was looking right through me.

"It had been bugging me for several days and I was petrified she was suffering from post-natal depression but I hadn't brought it up with her until that point."

He said he "told her straight" that he thought she was depressed.

"I said I was going to take her to the doctor the next day and get it sorted out.

"When I said that she completely calmed down."

'Screamed my lungs out'

Mr Finkill, a painter and decorator, said he woke at 0200 GMT on the day his wife died to find her "obsessively" washing their daughter Lacey.

"She had been obsessed that everything was exactly right for the babies. But I managed to calm her down and get her back into bed."

He said the last time he saw her was when he went into the room where she was sleeping to ask for a cuddle. He said: "She replied 'no - go in the spare room'.

"That is the last time we spoke."

Mr Finkill said he was woken by Isabelle crying in the morning and there was no answer when he called out to Mrs Finkill.

He searched the house for her and found the front door slightly open.

Mr Finkill said he contacted police and called relatives before heading out to search for his wife. "Then as I drove over the motorway bridge I saw the accident and all the emergency services.

"I didn't think anything of it at the time. But then this awful thought came into my head - 'I hope she has not walked on to the motorway'."

When he got home his sister told him a woman had been found on the M3 wearing pink pyjamas.

Police investigation

"When I heard that I just knew it was my Heather. I screamed my lungs out," Mr Finkill said.

Mr Finkill said that he was convinced that his wife had not deliberately killed herself.

"She did not kill herself that day. She couldn't have. Heather would never leave me on my own."

Mrs Finkill was wearing pink pyjama-style trousers, a blue hooded top and white trainers when she died.

She was also wearing a ring set with four to five diamonds on her right hand and a silver necklace was found nearby.

Police were alerted to the body by a member of the public who contacted them shortly before 0700 GMT.

The circumstances of Mrs Finkill's death are still under investigation.