Mick and Mairead Philpott cried at a news conference about the fire, which killed six of their children
The final outcome of this heartbreaking story will not be known for some time, one thing is clear, innocent children died because of some insane and highly evil person or persons, If it is the mother and father God help them, they will have committed such a heinous crime that cannot be forgiven, may those poor little children rest in peace, anyone who has information should come forward, protecting such evil bastards who committed this crime makes those keeping quite just as guilty in my opinion….
The parents of six children who died when their house was gutted by fire were last night charged with their murder.
Mick and Mairead Philpott were due to appear before magistrates this morning.
They face six counts of murder after prosecutors decided that pressing charges was ‘in the public interest’.
The couple were taken into custody on Tuesday morning – a fortnight after they broke down in tears at a press conference as officers described the incident which claimed the lives of their children.
Jade Philpott, ten, and brothers John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, all died in the fire, while older brother Duwayne, 13, succumbed to his injuries in hospital three days later.
Their father had been hailed by neighbours as a hero for ‘valiant’ attempts to rescue his children.
After two days of questioning by police, the 55-year-old father and his wife, 31, were charged. Officers had already established the blaze was deliberate, caused by petrol being ignited at the front of the family’s three-bedroom council house in Allenton, Derby
The Crown Prosecution Service said: ‘The evidence was reviewed by a Crown Advocate from the CPS East Midlands Complex Casework Unit, who decided that there was sufficient evidence to charge and that it is in the public interest for a prosecution to take place.’
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Ever since the the populist tipping point that was Diana Spencer we’ve had these public displays of emotion, the manipulations of the inadequate perpetuated by Jeremy Kyle, Carol Malone jumping on the bandwagon of twisted empathy, misplaced virtue, etc. So who’s-who in the hiatus void of self-righteousness, this time, then? It suddenly seems rather quiet beyond the good, and the evil, in the much vaunted court-of-public-opinion. As with Karen Mathews, the police have, at least, been aware of the sinister undercurrent in their relentless investigations. It’s as it should be. The people who really have something to say in the matter coming forward with some appropriate information to the professionals who are so determined to deal with this case, impartially, without the tawdry, personal agenda’s of the crumbling tabliods, a society in search of celebrity at any cost but finally left floundering by the obviously disingenous mass hysteria. And it’s exactly that sort of crap that Grayling & Co feed on so aloofly as they manage it by divide-and-rule. It does rather put them in the higher echeleons of the elite, I’m afraid. That’s social engineering for you, a carry-on from the conceits of the New Labour Project: Blair and the People’s Princess, and the flotsam of populism – Cool Britannia! Yuk.
*if* it was the parents, surely it is man slaughter, not murder? My presumption is that they would have done it for insurance money, not to kill their kids. Accidental death is man slaughter, as I understand it. I don’t believe there guilty. I’ve not seen all the hype, just the headlines (on purpose), but it just doesn’t feel right. Everyone seems so quick … and happy … to judge. No one seems to be asking what will happen to the rest of the kids?
Right from the start there was talk that the Husband and mother had been pestering the council to get them a bigger property, maybe they thought burn the house then the council will have to get us new place?…
They wanted a bigger house; Grayling wants a bigger head; IDS, a big personna. It’s all relative; people get hurt!
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you are right for murder it has to be proven that some sort of premeditation took place however if memory serves being reckless to the outcome of such an act could have an impact on law under certain circumstances like arson etc.
Don’t quote me it was a long time ago lol and to be honest the bigger the charge the more mistakes are made in my experience especially when they need bodies to charge while public outcry is high as I am sure it is here.
This is the problem with tabloid press where speculation will do when the truth is not available.
At the moment we know children are dead through a certain action and we do not really know the exact details because that is for the investigation and the police to decide but I tell you in my experience the easiest route of conviction will be followed by the police.
stated above in the article
Officers had already established the blaze was deliberate, caused by petrol being ignited at the front of the family’s three-bedroom council house in Allenton, Derby.
That does not prove who started the fire and only states it was deliberate so by charging the parents that act in itself is stating the police think that they did it and can prove it in a court of law because the CPS these days does not allow cases through to court if they do not think they can win. (money again) In all honesty further evidence would need to be examined that the public do not have access to but I would be thinking along the following lines.
In my experience if a person was going to set fire to a house deliberately for any reason it is almost unheard of that they would do so while children or members of the family were in the property.
So the question would be are these people evil enough to set fire to their own house for whatever reason knowing children were in the property and there was a likelihood of death or serious harm to them from that action? Also was anyone else in the property that could have started the fire or anyone that could have entered the property and then left after starting the fire?
RIP little ones what a terrible way to go.
for me it seems false the charges well i hope they are and at the moment there no evidense to prove otherwise as they to quick the police and papers to say tou are guilty untill possitive evidense i will hold my judgement jeff3
I agree but as previous posters have said, the CPS and the police must think they have sufficient evidence? Parents have committed dreadful acts on their children before, remember Karen Matthews in Yorkshire, the woman drugged her own daughter and said she had gone missing, the police found her hidden under a matress in another house less than a mile away, people are evil, parents are people?????
I agree, it seems fishy from the word go. Esp as the charges are said to be of ‘public interest’.
Innocent people have been and are charged and even convicted upon false evidences and/for, an under the pressure of ‘public interest’ of ‘conviction of henious crimes’.
‘If?’ indeed the parents did do this? Their kids were inside and that was known!
The doing, for an insurance claim would be too risky for any loving parent surely? If they did do this? Manslaughter seems a little too easy (personal view). I imagine if ‘this’ were to be the case? The guilt of mistakeningly killing your own kids for cash will be a punishment far more sever than any other.
I dont know anything about the case of course, i know nothing about the evidence etc.
I truly hope the whomever did it is caught as a means to never be able to do it again.
Its not just arson and ugly vandalism its murdered kids.
If and I say, if they set petrol on fire on purpose for whatever reason anywhere near the house then in my eye’s it is murder. They would have known the risk of doing that as any human with half a brain cell would have known. I personally feel it is an event in some way that got out of hand but again even taking that chance they must have known of the dangerous potential of lighting petrol beside there home. Maybe the greed in their heart blinded them. If they are guilty it is through there own thoughts, actions and deeds that 6 innocent souls have left this earth in terrible circumstances.
Hopefully time will reveal all and the children will have a dignified send off. RIP