An Aberdeen-born mum was engulfed in a nightmare today after herhusband killed their two daughters and hanged himself.
It is thought the news of the horrific double-murder and suicidewas broken to Theresa Reilly as she sat outside the death scene.
She had arrived to collect her two little girls from her estrangedhusband and called police when she got no reply from the house.
It has been reported officers got into the flat in New Jersey andfound Meghan, 6, and Kelly, 5, drowned in the bathtub on the firstfloor.
The girls were submerged in the water, fully clothed in shorts andfootball tops. One was still wearing her sandals.
Their dad, 46-year-old Irish builder Thomas Reilly, was hangingfrom a rafter in a third-floor attic. He was wearing a Gaelicfootball top.
Theresa, 37, who emigrated from Aberdeen as a teenager, collapsedand had to be kept overnight in hospital.
The tragedy was discovered the day after little Meghan hadgraduated from nursery in Verona, New Jersey.
It is thought the couple had argued over access to the girls.Theresa had taken out a restraining order against Reilly last monthafter he reportedly beat her up in March.
The horrific murders unfolded at 322 Claremont Avenue, a largeVictorian home in affluent Montclair, New Jersey.
Reilly's neighbour, Robert Denko said: "It seems as though he hassimply snapped after an argument with his wife over zaccess to thekids."
Powerful 6ft Reilly, originally from Cavan, Southern Ireland, moved to New Jersey around 1994 before marrying Theresa in the latethe 1990s.
ashaw@ajl.co.uk
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