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File photo of Mick and Mairead Philpott Rui Vieira/PA Wire
Manslaughter
Philpotts to be sentenced today over killing of six children
Mick and Mairead Philpott were found guilty of six counts of manslaughter after the children died in a house fire.
MICK AND MAIREAD Philpott, the couple who killed six children in a fire at their family home, will be sentenced later today.
The two were yesterday found guilty of six counts of manslaughter. A third defendant, Paul Mosley, was also found guilty of six charges of manslaughter.
The coupled denied all charges against them.
The prosecution said the couple had tried to frame Mick Philpott’s former girlfriend who had lived at the family home until three months before the fire.
The Philpotts said they had planned to rescue the children from the bedroom window but the fire spread more quickly than they had expected.
Five of the children – Jayden (5), Jessie (6), Jack (8), John (9) and Jade (10) - died of smoke inhalation in the fire at the family home on 11 May last year. The sixth child, Dwayne (13), died in hospital two days later.
-Additional reporting by AFP
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