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Maired and Mick Philpott embrace at their home.
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Maired and Mick Philpott
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Vile drunkenness: Mick Philpott goes to lick wife Mairead's face at a
party.
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Michael Philpott with his wife Mairead and his mistress Lisa
Willis.
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Mick and Mairead Philpott with Jesse (Lisa Willis’s son in green
tee-shirt), Sherene?
(Lisa Willis’s daughter in background),
Margaret (Mick’s mum in yellow) and right, John (who died in the fire)
at the Philpott’s house in Derby in 2011.
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Father-of-seventeen Mick Philpott, pictured with his wife Mairead
Philpott (left) and girlfriend Lisa Willis
(right) and eleven of his children.
(Rex Features)
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Mick Philpott with his family.
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Mick Philpott with his family.
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Mick Philpott with his family.
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Respect: Well-wishers had left hundreds of cards, flowers, teddy
bears and candles after a candlelit vigil.
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Young lives destroyed: The six coffins carrying the Philpotts's
children are carried into St Mary's Roman
Catholic Church for their funeral.
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Killed by their own parents: Six wooden crosses mark the graves of
the Philpott children.
The victims
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Michael Philpott pictured with the six children, aged between five
and 13, who perished in the house fire.
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The tragic victims of the Derbyshire house blaze started by
father-of-seventeen Mick Philpott: Duwayne, 13,
(top left), John, 9, (top right) (bottom row left to right) Jack, 7,
Jesse, 6, their sister Jade, 10, and Jayden, 5.
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The children Michael is convicted of killing: (top row) Duwayne,
13, Jade Philpott, 10, and her brothers John,
nine, (lower row) Jack, eight, Jayden, five and Jesse, six.
Michael Philpott biography