Mick and Mairead Philpott had a strange and destructive relationship for years. The UK couple lived a nice lifestyle purely on welfare payments, including a three-bedroom property in Derby paid for by taxpayers. Nevertheless, the couple decided that their rent-free apartment was insufficient.
Mick and Mairead shared their townhouse with his lover and mom to some of his 17 kids, Lisa Willis. Nevertheless, when Lisa left the house with her children and her portion of the welfare payments, the couple was determined to make an even better life on the taxpayer’s cost. Evidently, the more than $80,000 a year they earned from their six kids was insufficient.
Mick and Mairead plotted to burn down the home and frame Lisa, upset that his former partner had taken away some of his privileges. Mick was reportedly meant to let the house burn before saving their sleeping kids, causing the city to purchase him a new house and make himself appear like a hero in the process. Unfortunately, nothing went as planned.
As the flat burnt, Mick and Miread’s kids perished from smoke inhalation. The fire killed Jade, 10, John, 9, Jack, 7, Jesse, 6, and Jayden, 5. However, Duwayne, 13, died in the hospital after Mick was persuaded by support personnel to visit his ailing son. Despite the fact that the couple accused an unknown assailant for setting fire to their home, their crocodile tears and strange conduct raised suspicions.
Despite the fact that Mick and Mairead were sobbing to the press during the day, they were having a good time at a local bar at night. Mick was even making jokes while his kid struggled to survive the terrible injuries he had caused. Naturally, investigators turned their attention to them, revealing their lethal conspiracy to imperil their children and swindle the assistance system.
Mick was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum of 50 years, while Mairead was sentenced to 17 years in prison for her role in her children’s deaths. She, on the other hand, was not going to be locked up for long. Mairead revealed that she was “thrilled” to be freed at the earliest available parole date just 8 years into her sentence.
Mairead checked into a halfway home, where she would stay for three months with a curfew of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The taxpayers paid for her stay at the hostel, which cost thousands of dollars. She was also given a new identification and escorted by police.
Prior to their children’s terrible deaths, the couple had been in the public glare. Mick agreed to an interview in 2007, in which he passionately justified his existence on assistance with Mairead and his 18 kids, ordering anybody who disagreed to “go f—-.” The couple also participated in an episode of “The Jeremy Kyle Program,” a spectacular tabloid talk show that caught the couple’s turbulent relationship. Mick had already been convicted of stabbing a former lover 27 times.
We can only pray Mick spends the rest of his life behind bars. But, it is too late for Mairead, who is already protected by the government and receiving financial assistance from the public.
Mairead was released after serving less than half of her sentence. In reality, it amounts to less than a year in prison for each of her children’s lives. Her release is an insult not only to her deceased children, as well as to the taxpayers who continue to finance her useless existence.
