Baby daughter saved my life...

Ex-partner of tot 'killer Tighe on grief and pain of murder

- TREVOR QUINN

THE ex-partner of baby killer John Tighe has described the agony of losing him and said the birth of her daughter two years later saved her life.

In her first interview since her son Joshua was murdered in 2013, brave Natascha Suessbier said she is thankful to "caring" social workers from Tusla for making a crucial intervention.

The staff warned her while heavily pregnant in October 2015 that Tighe, who was then a prime suspect in the death, was a potential danger to their unborn child and insisted they could not raise the baby together.

Natascha said: "If it wasn't for Tusla I would have never found out the truth or woken up and that could have cost me my second child who could have been hurt or taken into care.