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Mick Philpott _ The Derby Child Killer · This is monsters

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Speaker 1: a week. Thanks. To be a father is more than
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Speaker 1: just to have a child. No, it also requires that
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Speaker 1: you put someone else before yourself at all times and
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Speaker 1: do everything you can do to help them become the
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Speaker 1: best person they possibly can. It's a full-time role and
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Speaker 1: one that lasts for a lifetime. Sadly, though, it's not
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Speaker 1: one that all fathers are fit to fill. What happens
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Speaker 1: when a father doesn't just fail to raise his children,
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Speaker 1: but he actively hurts them with his irresponsible attitude? And
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Speaker 1: what happens when that attitude directly leads to the death
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Speaker 1: of six of his offspring? It's something we're about to
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Speaker 1: find out. This is Monsters. To understand the actions of
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Speaker 1: Mick Philpott is to untangle a very complex psychology, that
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Speaker 1: of a man who, with his unconventional lifestyle choices, was
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Speaker 1: always going to be a figure of derision for some.
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Speaker 1: But while for most people, living an unconventional life doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily hurt anyone around them, when you add a whole
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Speaker 1: host of personality disorders into the mix, it created a
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Speaker 1: lethal cocktail in this case. Michael Philpott, who went by Mick,
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Speaker 1: was born December of 1956 into a working-class family in Derbyshire, England.
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Speaker 1: During his earliest years, he seemed to be a normal
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Speaker 1: kid in all outside appearances, one who, by the time
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Speaker 1: his late teens came around, was training to serve in
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Speaker 1: the army. At some point, it became apparent there was
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Speaker 1: a far darker side to the youngster layered on top
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Speaker 1: of that. Basically, he appeared to be suffering from the
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Speaker 1: Dark Triad, a concept in psychology where a person has
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Speaker 1: a combination of traits that, while they aren't always dangerous
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Speaker 1: in isolation, can be pretty destructive when brought together. These
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Speaker 1: traits consist of a healthy and equal dose of psychopathy, narcissism,
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Speaker 1: and Machiavellianism. It should be clear how that helped to
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Speaker 1: make Mick Philpott the man he would become. It should
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Speaker 1: also be clear why he was more dangerous than others
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Speaker 1: suffering for one or even two of those traits. After all,
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Speaker 1: psychopathy and narcissism aren't actually as uncommon as someone might think.
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Speaker 1: In fact, the likelihood is that we've all met more
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Speaker 1: than a few people who fit those categories in our lives. Really,
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Speaker 1: all the former means is someone who suffers from a
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Speaker 1: lack of empathy, and in the latter, it's mostly someone
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Speaker 1: who has an inflated sense of self-importance. So when you
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Speaker 1: think about it that way, it's easy to realize psychopaths
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Speaker 1: and narcissists are everywhere, particularly in high-level corporate roles as
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Speaker 1: these mentalities often help them to succeed in the world
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Speaker 1: of business. Of course, this doesn't mean they're dangerous people, though. No,
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Speaker 1: most psychopaths or narcissists are harmless, at least in the
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Speaker 1: sense of being a physical danger to those around them.
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Speaker 1: The problem comes, however, when these two disorders are layered
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Speaker 1: on top of one another and a diagnosis of Machiavellianism
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Speaker 1: is added to the mix. That's a personality trait that
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Speaker 1: denotes cunningness, the ability to be manipulative, and a drive
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Speaker 1: to use whatever means necessary to gain power. With no empathy,
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Speaker 1: a superiority complex, and an increased ability to manipulate others,
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Speaker 1: the ingredients are all there for disaster to take hold.
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Speaker 1: Those suffering from the Dark Triad are statistically far more
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Speaker 1: likely to engage in dangerous behavior, be highly impulsive, and
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Speaker 1: do so with little regard for their fellow men and women.
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Speaker 1: In the case of Mick Philpott specifically, this manifested itself
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Speaker 1: mostly in his attitude towards women, with him often being
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Speaker 1: described by those who knew him as controlling, domineering, and
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Speaker 1: even outright violent towards his romantic partners. In fact, by
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Speaker 1: the time he reached 21 years old in the summer
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Speaker 1: of 1978, he had already attempted to murder his then-girlfriend
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Speaker 1: Kim Hill after she threatened to leave him over his
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Speaker 1: manipulative behavior. After her threat, on July 24th of that year,
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Speaker 1: Mick broke into her home and stabbed her over 27
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Speaker 1: times while she was lying in bed. He left her
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Speaker 1: with collapsed lungs, as well as a punctured bladder, kidneys,
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Speaker 1: and liver. When Kim's mother, who was in the house
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Speaker 1: at the time, heard the commotion and attempted to intervene,
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Speaker 1: she ended up getting stabbed 11 times for her efforts.
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Speaker 1: When the paramedics showed up on the scene soon after,
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Speaker 1: they had a difficult task ahead of them in saving
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Speaker 1: the two women's lives. But true to his nature, Mick
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Speaker 1: was apparently well aware of that and even took great
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Speaker 1: pleasure in it. When they arrived on the scene, he
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Speaker 1: reportedly said of his partner, quote, I wouldn't bother. She's
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Speaker 1: a goner. I've done a good job on her. For
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Speaker 1: as horrifying as that was, both women would survive the
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Speaker 1: incident and Mick would be charged with attempted murder and
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Speaker 1: grievous bodily harm as a result. He was sentenced to
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Speaker 1: seven and a half years behind bars. Of course, it
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Speaker 1: could be argued that he got off light, though, as
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Speaker 1: it wasn't the first incidents of violence towards his partner.
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Speaker 1: Prior to the stabbing of Kim and her mother, He
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Speaker 1: had also shot her in the groin with a crossbow
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Speaker 1: after he deemed the dress she was wearing to be
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Speaker 1: too short. On another occasion, he cracked her kneecap with
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Speaker 1: a hammer because she was paying attention to an infant
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Speaker 1: she was babysitting and not him. More than anything, though,
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Speaker 1: it was the fear she was cheating on him that
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Speaker 1: seemed to drive much of the abuse. Whenever he'd return
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Speaker 1: from a military posting, he'd immediately begin accusing Kim of
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Speaker 1: having affairs behind his back. Even when she denied them,
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Speaker 1: he refused to believe she was telling him the truth,
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Speaker 1: with it resulting in even more violence. It wasn't as
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Speaker 1: if acts of violence were kept secret from their friend
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Speaker 1: circle either. No, during one notable incident at a busy bar,
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Speaker 1: Mick took to smacking his partner across the mouth with
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Speaker 1: a pool cue and bursting her lip open, all while
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Speaker 1: everyone else in the room sat and did nothing. Why
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Speaker 1: wouldn't they help a woman in need? Well, it was
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Speaker 1: well known amongst the locals that Mick was not a
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Speaker 1: man to be messed with. That was because if you
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Speaker 1: did try anything with him, his vengeance would be fast
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Speaker 1: and intense. Clearly then, he wasn't someone who had a
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Speaker 1: stable and healthy view on how to act when it
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Speaker 1: came to not getting what he felt he deserved. and
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Speaker 1: it didn't seem he had any understanding that anything he
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Speaker 1: was doing was wrong either as, while in prison for
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Speaker 1: the stabbing incident, he continued to write to Kim, telling
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Speaker 1: her all about his plans to marry her once he
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Speaker 1: was released. Of course, Kim had no intention of getting
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Speaker 1: back together with the man who had almost killed her,
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Speaker 1: and she was glad that he was behind bars. Despite that,
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Speaker 1: after just three years and two months of his sentence,
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Speaker 1: he was released as they felt he was no longer
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Speaker 1: a danger to the community. Of course, someone willing to
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Speaker 1: stab two women a collective 38 times had surely learned
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Speaker 1: his lesson. Except that he hadn't, as would become apparent
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Speaker 1: when he met and subsequently married Pamela Lomax in 1986. Sure,
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Speaker 1: there may have been some degree of harmony in their
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Speaker 1: relationship at first, enough to where they were able to
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Speaker 1: have three children together, but like any good abuser, slowly
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Speaker 1: Mick's real side began to present itself. He wasn't long
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Speaker 1: before his new bride was complaining about his controlling behavior.
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Speaker 1: That behavior would become such an issue for her, in fact,
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Speaker 1: she began to hope and pray he'd leave her for
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Speaker 1: someone else. A wish that would soon be fulfilled because
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Speaker 1: soon he met Heather Kehoe and fell in love with her.
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Speaker 1: The biggest problem, outside of the fact that Mick was
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Speaker 1: already married, was that Heather was 16 and he was 37. Sure,
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Speaker 1: the age of consent in the UK is 16, but
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Speaker 1: it's been reported that the two actually met when Heather
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Speaker 1: was only 14 years old. Really, though, in a way,
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Speaker 1: it makes sense he'd go for a younger woman, as
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Speaker 1: they'd likely be easier to manipulate. And manipulate he did because,
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Speaker 1: once the two ran away together, it wasn't long before
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Speaker 1: Heather was feeling the brunt of her partner's fury. In
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Speaker 1: her case, this first presented itself after she'd been unable
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Speaker 1: to give him a daughter. Yes, despite the two having
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Speaker 1: two sons together, and despite Mick already having two sons
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Speaker 1: and a daughter from a previous wife, that clearly wasn't enough.
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Speaker 1: So when it became apparent to him that his younger
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Speaker 1: partner wasn't giving him the girl he felt he deserved,
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Speaker 1: he took to beating and sexually abusing her. As if
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Speaker 1: that wasn't bad enough, he also taught their two sons
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Speaker 1: to also beat her if they felt she was getting
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Speaker 1: out of line. Now, obviously, there was only so much
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Speaker 1: of that Heather was going to be able to take
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Speaker 1: before she reached her breaking point. And that very breaking
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Speaker 1: point came soon after. When she couldn't convince her children
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Speaker 1: to see what a monster their father was, she was
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Speaker 1: forced to flee the household without them. She would eventually
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Speaker 1: win full custody of her children. and from there begin
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Speaker 1: the process of de-brainwashing them, but that only came after
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Speaker 1: a lengthy and costly court battle had ensued. Even this
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be the end of her torment, though, as, for
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Speaker 1: years after, Mick continued to level allegations against her both
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Speaker 1: in public and within their social circles, causing her problems
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Speaker 1: that still persist to this day. Luckily, though, she wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have to deal with any more of his physical abuse,
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Speaker 1: at least as by that point the increasingly violent and
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Speaker 1: erratic father of her children had moved on to new targets.
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Speaker 1: When there wasn't a romantic partner immediately available to abuse,
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Speaker 1: he would simply go after work colleagues instead. Such was
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Speaker 1: the case when he headbutted a co-worker in 1991 and,
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Speaker 1: as a result, was sentenced to a two-year conditional discharge.
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Speaker 1: With that in mind, it's difficult to imagine why anyone
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Speaker 1: would want to be around Mick Philpott at this point.
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Speaker 1: But if there's one thing abusers excel at, But if
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Speaker 1: there's one thing abusers excel at, it's finding potential victims
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Speaker 1: who are more susceptible to falling into their web of control.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened when, in 2000, he met and
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Speaker 1: began dating Mairead Duffy, a 19-year-old single mother who had
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Speaker 1: previously fled from a volatile relationship with the father of
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Speaker 1: her children. Sadly, she was unable to break away from
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Speaker 1: the pattern of getting involved with violent men, and rather
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Speaker 1: than get as far away from Mick as possible once
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Speaker 1: she was introduced to him, she was so enamored with
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Speaker 1: him that it wasn't long before she was referring to
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Speaker 1: Mick as her guardian angel. And with that, the two
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Speaker 1: would soon be living together at his home in Darby,
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Speaker 1: with them bringing her son along for the ride. For
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Speaker 1: as much as Maraid appeared to worship Mick... Even she
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Speaker 1: would be somewhat troubled by his decision to start seeing
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Speaker 1: a second woman on the side only a year after
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Speaker 1: their relationship had begun. That's right. In 2001, Mick met
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Speaker 1: 16-year-old Lisa Willis, another single mother in the area who
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Speaker 1: had grown up as an orphan and as a result
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Speaker 1: had no parental figures in her life. So perhaps in
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Speaker 1: this older man, she was able to kill two birds
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Speaker 1: with one stone by finding both a lover and a
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Speaker 1: father figure at the same time. Gross. Whatever their dynamic was,
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Speaker 1: there was clearly no attempt from the convicted abuser to
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Speaker 1: hide this situation from his other partner. No, he was
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Speaker 1: quite open about the fact he was seeing two women simultaneously.
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Speaker 1: By 2002, Lisa had been invited to move into Mick
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Speaker 1: and Mairead's three-bedroom semi-detached home at 18 Victoria Terrace, Allentown, Darby.
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Speaker 1: Could this be considered a hypocritical stance to take for
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Speaker 1: a man who'd previously beaten partners to within an inch
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Speaker 1: of their lives over alleged infidelity? Uh, yeah. But Mick
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Speaker 1: didn't seem to recognize that. After all, it was what
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Speaker 1: he wanted, so it shouldn't matter how others felt about it.
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Speaker 1: If Moray had a problem with his choice, then so
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Speaker 1: be it. She'd just have to accept the reality of
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Speaker 1: facing his wrath if she dared speak up about the matter.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps that's why she chose not to say anything at
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Speaker 1: all and instead allowed the situation to turn into a
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Speaker 1: polyandrous one. And just to be clear, what consenting adults
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Speaker 1: do in their personal and romantic relationships is their own business.
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Speaker 1: As long as everyone is on board with the idea,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with people sharing multiple partners.
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Speaker 1: You do you. That said, in this particular situation, there
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Speaker 1: was obviously a power dynamic at play that called into
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Speaker 1: question just how happy the two other women involved were.
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Speaker 1: After all, they were both significantly younger than he was,
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Speaker 1: on the border of still being children, and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: as if they were allowed to seek out other partners
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Speaker 1: of their own should they want to. It's equally as
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Speaker 1: possible that as things progressed, they came to like the
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Speaker 1: arrangement because during Mick and Mairead's wedding in May of 2003,
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Speaker 1: Lisa served as a bridesmaid. That's complete speculation, though, and
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Speaker 1: it was clear to everyone that Mick was the one
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Speaker 1: who ran the household. It was also well known that
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Speaker 1: he did so with an iron fist. When at one point,
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Speaker 1: he came to the irrational belief Lisa's brother-in-law was the
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Speaker 1: father of her child, he took to physically beating her
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Speaker 1: in order to get her to confess to it being true.
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Speaker 1: But there was nothing to confess to, so, unable to
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Speaker 1: give him the answer he wanted, Lisa was forced to
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Speaker 1: endure his abuse while Mairead watched, powerless to stop what
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Speaker 1: was happening. After all, she didn't want to risk upsetting
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Speaker 1: him herself and end up getting assaulted as well. No,
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Speaker 1: in order to ensure the safety of herself and her children,
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Speaker 1: it was better to stay quiet as much as possible.
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Speaker 1: That attitude soon became the norm in the Philpott house,
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Speaker 1: not just for Mairead and Lisa, but also for the
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Speaker 1: eleven children they had between them. That's right, Mick had
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Speaker 1: been a busy man as over the previous decade, he'd
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Speaker 1: fathered nine children between his wife and his girlfriend. Five
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Speaker 1: of them were maraids, and the other four being boys
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Speaker 1: and girls he conceived with his mistress Lisa. Not that
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Speaker 1: any of them seemed to mean anything to him, of course. No,
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Speaker 1: he took little interest in what they did or what
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Speaker 1: they needed. As far as he was concerned, when it
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Speaker 1: came to feeding them, clothing them, or making sure they
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Speaker 1: attended school, well, that was woman's work. As to the
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Speaker 1: five children he'd fathered before he met Maraid, Mick had
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Speaker 1: no contact with them at all anymore, so he didn't
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Speaker 1: need to worry about anything going on there. No, all
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Speaker 1: he really saw his offspring as was an empire, one
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Speaker 1: that he could use to manipulate the system to his
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Speaker 1: own ends. How would he do that? Well, despite his
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Speaker 1: two partners both working, Mick claimed as much as he
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Speaker 1: possibly could in benefits from the government, all while refusing
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Speaker 1: to do any work himself. What made that even worse
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Speaker 1: was that all of the income in the household, whether
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Speaker 1: it came from state welfare or employment earnings, went directly
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Speaker 1: into his bank account. So, if anyone living there wanted anything,
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Speaker 1: they had to go through him, something that only increased
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Speaker 1: his control over the proceedings. And he currently had plenty
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Speaker 1: to hold over his family as, through a combination of
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Speaker 1: both streams of income, his annual income was in excess
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Speaker 1: of £ 60, 000 per year. closer to $ 75, 000 American. With such
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Speaker 1: an obscene amount of money coming in for a man
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Speaker 1: who'd done nothing to earn it, it's no surprise his
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Speaker 1: story soon became a tabloid sensation in the UK. In fact,
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Speaker 1: by 2006, many newspapers were openly criticizing him after it
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Speaker 1: came to light he had requested he and his family
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Speaker 1: be moved to a larger city council-owned house at the
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Speaker 1: expense of the taxpayers. This negative public profile wasn't helped
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Speaker 1: much when the story of his 1978 conviction for attempted
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Speaker 1: murder also resurfaced soon after, with many at that point
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Speaker 1: questioning whether he was even fit to raise his kids.
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Speaker 1: As far as his detractors saw it, he was clearly
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Speaker 1: a dangerous man and one who had little interest in
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Speaker 1: his children other than what they could do for him.
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Speaker 1: In that sense, then, he was a true sociopath and
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Speaker 1: could never truly understand the consequences of any of his actions.
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Speaker 1: But luckily for Mick, British television had a place for
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Speaker 1: folks like that in the mid-2000s, and it was on
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Speaker 1: the human circus that was The Jeremy Kyle Show. That
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Speaker 1: was basically a UK equivalent to more well-known sensationalized 90s
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Speaker 1: talk shows such as The Jerry Springer Show. It was there,
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Speaker 1: on a spring 2007 edition, one that was tastefully named
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Speaker 1: Father to Fifteen, Wife and Girlfriend Pregnant Again, that he
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Speaker 1: pled his case to the British public about why he
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Speaker 1: deserved a bigger house for his family. Unfortunately, though, this
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Speaker 1: attempt to rehabilitate his public image did not go down
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Speaker 1: so well. That was because, outside of spending much of
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Speaker 1: the episode bragging about how much money he was bringing in,
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Speaker 1: Then talking about his desire to divorce his wife so
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Speaker 1: he could marry his girlfriend, he was unable to justify
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Speaker 1: why he should be subsidized by the public when he
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Speaker 1: refused to work himself. Still, even if the interview had
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Speaker 1: been a disaster in terms of getting him what he wanted,
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Speaker 1: shameless Mick, as he had then become known in the media,
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Speaker 1: felt like he was now a full-blown celebrity as a result.
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Speaker 1: With this only feeding his narcissism that much more, he
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Speaker 1: started making plans to monetize the situation further, with him
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Speaker 1: at one point planning to get a vasectomy and selling
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Speaker 1: the rights to film the operation to the highest bidder.
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Speaker 1: As he allegedly put it at that point, quote, Mick
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Speaker 1: Philpott's seed is too good to waste, so there was
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Speaker 1: no way such a procedure could be carried out without
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Speaker 1: him getting some financial gain. When he wasn't planning out
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Speaker 1: how he could make extra cash from a vasectomy, he
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Speaker 1: was continuing to do the media circuit all around the country.
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Speaker 1: whether that be via tabloid newspaper interviews, or further television
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Speaker 1: appearances such as the time he appeared on an episode
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Speaker 1: of the ITV documentary series and Witticum Versus. It was
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Speaker 1: a show that featured the former British MP and various
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Speaker 1: persons using the benefit system. That appearance ended up backfiring
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Speaker 1: on him again as it proved to be even more
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Speaker 1: damaging than his showing on Jeremy Kyle. That was largely because,
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Speaker 1: rather than dealing with a daytime shock jock, Mick was
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Speaker 1: instead placed head-to-head with a prominent conservative member of parliament,
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Speaker 1: someone who understood the benefits system and who, with her
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Speaker 1: right-wing leanings, was far less understanding of his supposed plight
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Speaker 1: than others may have been. With that in mind, it
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Speaker 1: should go without saying that interview got downright competitive at points.
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Speaker 1: Early on, during her time staying in his household, in fact,
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Speaker 1: Anne lambasted Mick for not only taking no interest in
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Speaker 1: his kids' lives, but also for refusing to get a job,
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Speaker 1: even after she'd been able to find three separate employers
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Speaker 1: who were willing to hire him. One of the companies,
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Speaker 1: a barrel-making firm, had even flat-out hired him on the
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Speaker 1: MP's recommendation. But when he didn't show up to his
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Speaker 1: first day of work, the tensions between the two parties
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Speaker 1: only increased to the point that Mick openly referred to
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Speaker 1: the host as an interfering bitch, someone who shouldn't be
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Speaker 1: getting involved in his business. So why go on the
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Speaker 1: show then? Of course, that kind of behavior was par
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Speaker 1: for the course with Mick, as by then both his
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Speaker 1: wife and his mistress were used to being called bitches
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Speaker 1: whenever they did something that upset him. With his problems
20:42
Speaker 1: with women not having gotten any better over the years,
20:45
Speaker 1: Mick had been able to reduce them to little more
20:48
Speaker 1: than objects in his own mind, with him now choosing
20:51
Speaker 1: to largely live in a caravan outside of his home
20:54
Speaker 1: and simply deal with his sexual urges by inviting over
20:57
Speaker 1: whichever partner he wanted to sleep with that night. The
21:01
Speaker 1: physical abuse they suffered would only continue to get worse, too,
21:04
Speaker 1: because in 2010, police were forced to give him a
21:08
Speaker 1: formal caution when he was reported for dragging Mairead out
21:11
Speaker 1: of the house by her hair and then slapping her
21:14
Speaker 1: during an argument. Following that, in 2011, his wife became
21:19
Speaker 1: pregnant by another man during a dogging session he'd arranged.
21:23
Speaker 1: That was a practice in which people met up in
21:25
Speaker 1: semi-public places for group sex. Mick forced Mairead to get
21:30
Speaker 1: an abortion as he couldn't bear the thought of another
21:32
Speaker 1: man having a child with her, but it wasn't just
21:35
Speaker 1: his lovers who were feeling the brunt of his rage
21:38
Speaker 1: at that point. Later that same year, in November of 2011,
21:42
Speaker 1: Mick punched another driver during a road rage incident, with
21:46
Speaker 1: that leading to him being convicted of common assault and
21:49
Speaker 1: awarded bail while he was awaiting trial. It was clear
21:53
Speaker 1: things were getting worse than ever in terms of his
21:55
Speaker 1: stability and temperament, but the worst was yet to come because,
21:59
Speaker 1: in February of 2012, when Lisa finally decided she'd had
22:04
Speaker 1: enough and fled the house with her children in tow,
22:07
Speaker 1: something broke inside of her now-former partner. It really shouldn't
22:11
Speaker 1: be surprising, though, because for him, this represented something he
22:15
Speaker 1: wasn't used to, a loss of control over the situation.
22:19
Speaker 1: After all, The woman who for so long had been
22:22
Speaker 1: under his thumb was now taking some agency over her life,
22:25
Speaker 1: and that was simply not acceptable as far as he
22:28
Speaker 1: was concerned. So in an attempt to convince her to
22:32
Speaker 1: come back, Mick first tried sweet-talking Lisa. Then, when that
22:36
Speaker 1: didn't work, he resorted to outright bullying, threatening her with
22:40
Speaker 1: violence should she not come to her senses. But still,
22:44
Speaker 1: even with all that being levied against her, she refused
22:47
Speaker 1: to return to the house as she felt it was
22:49
Speaker 1: now at a point where it wasn't just damaging to her.
22:53
Speaker 1: It was also affecting her children. Obviously, for any normal man,
22:57
Speaker 1: accepting defeat would be the only course of action at
23:00
Speaker 1: that point. But Mick Philpott was no normal man. No,
23:05
Speaker 1: unable to let the situation go as it represented a
23:08
Speaker 1: failure of his ability to dominate people, he began devising
23:12
Speaker 1: a plan, one so horrific it would soon lead to
23:15
Speaker 1: him being imprisoned for what may possibly be the remainder
23:18
Speaker 1: of his life. Basically, it started when, now feeling the
23:22
Speaker 1: need to get revenge on Lisa and also get custody
23:26
Speaker 1: of their children back in the process, he confided in
23:29
Speaker 1: Maraid an idea he'd come up with which he believed
23:32
Speaker 1: would kill two birds with one stone. The way he
23:35
Speaker 1: saw it, if the two were to force a custody
23:38
Speaker 1: hearing over the children in court, then set a fire
23:41
Speaker 1: in the house and blame Lisa for starting it, she'd
23:45
Speaker 1: lose access to her kids and be forced to return
23:48
Speaker 1: home if she ever wanted to see them again. Now, immediately,
23:52
Speaker 1: it should be obvious to anyone why this plan was
23:54
Speaker 1: flawed as it implied Lisa would willingly re-enter the situation
23:58
Speaker 1: after such a horrendous act. On top of that, it
24:02
Speaker 1: also implied Mick and Mairead were smart enough to make
24:05
Speaker 1: it look like she'd set the fire to the house
24:07
Speaker 1: when there was really no motive for her to do so. Still,
24:11
Speaker 1: with his only thought at the time being that he
24:13
Speaker 1: had to get what he wanted, Mick pushed his wife
24:16
Speaker 1: into agreeing to the plan, something she eventually did but
24:20
Speaker 1: only under duress as she feared her marriage would be
24:22
Speaker 1: over if she didn't. That's right, even at this point,
24:26
Speaker 1: Mick's wife was so blindly in love with him that
24:29
Speaker 1: she was willing to put her own kid's lives at
24:31
Speaker 1: risk in order to keep him happy. But while this
24:34
Speaker 1: would prove to be a poor decision in the end,
24:36
Speaker 1: it didn't stop her at the time. So after bringing
24:39
Speaker 1: a third party on board, Mick's best friend, Paul Mosley,
24:43
Speaker 1: they set about seeding stories amongst friends and acquaintances about
24:48
Speaker 1: threats Lisa had been making against them. When Lisa heard
24:51
Speaker 1: about the rumors and called her now former lover up
24:54
Speaker 1: in an angry and aggressive manner, Mick was able to
24:57
Speaker 1: gleefully take recordings of those calls to the authorities and
25:01
Speaker 1: managed to get a custody meeting set up for May 11th, 2012.
25:05
Speaker 1: With everything now in place, the evening before the hearing,
25:09
Speaker 1: Mick and Mairead began executing the final step of their plan.
25:13
Speaker 1: How would it play out? Well, after putting their six kids, Jade, John, Jack, Jesse, Jaden,
25:20
Speaker 1: and Dwayne to bed, they welcomed Paul Mosley back into
25:23
Speaker 1: the house and the three of them began drinking heavily.
25:27
Speaker 1: At some point after midnight, they engaged in a threesome together,
25:31
Speaker 1: all before around 3 a.m. on the morning of the 11th.
25:35
Speaker 1: That was when they started pouring gasoline all over the
25:37
Speaker 1: floor of the house. Once that was done, aware enough
25:41
Speaker 1: to try to get rid of the evidence, Paul removed
25:44
Speaker 1: the gas containers from the property, allowing Mick the chance
25:48
Speaker 1: to set the place alight, something he did at around 3.30 a.m.
25:52
Speaker 1: in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. After that,
25:56
Speaker 1: the fire spread quickly and with the epicenter being at
25:59
Speaker 1: the staircase, it meant the children sleeping on the second
26:02
Speaker 1: floor had no means of escape. So, with the gravity
26:06
Speaker 1: of the situation now dawning on them, the three ran
26:09
Speaker 1: outside into a neighbor's yard where Mairead called emergency services
26:13
Speaker 1: begging for help. As she explained to them, a fire
26:17
Speaker 1: had started while they were asleep and, while she and
26:20
Speaker 1: her husband had been able to get outside, their children
26:23
Speaker 1: were trapped upstairs. Of course, even if Moraine was panicking now,
26:28
Speaker 1: suddenly realizing her children's lives were at stake, Mick stuck
26:32
Speaker 1: to the plan, telling neighbors who'd been woken up by
26:34
Speaker 1: the blaze that he thought Lisa Willis had started the fire.
26:38
Speaker 1: Not that he seemed to care about the kids trapped inside, though,
26:42
Speaker 1: and it's this very emotionless attitude towards them which first
26:45
Speaker 1: raised the suspicions of those in attendance at the time.
26:49
Speaker 1: As James Butler, one of the people on the scene
26:51
Speaker 1: described it after the fact, quote, Unfortunately though, with the
26:54
Speaker 1: smoke and the flames now reaching a point where they
26:56
Speaker 1: were too thick to get past, accessing the second floor
26:58
Speaker 1: bedroom window by means of ladder proved impossible. When firefighters
27:15
Speaker 1: arrived on the scene soon after, they immediately recognized the
27:19
Speaker 1: severity of the situation as well. Still, they worked to
27:23
Speaker 1: get the children out of the house anyway, and in
27:26
Speaker 1: the end, this led to a small miracle as the
27:28
Speaker 1: oldest of the children, 13-year-old Duane, was pulled out, still alive,
27:33
Speaker 1: though badly injured. As for the rest of them, however,
27:36
Speaker 1: they weren't so lucky. The other five children, each of
27:40
Speaker 1: them between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,
27:42
Speaker 1: would die on the scene. Even that wouldn't be the
27:45
Speaker 1: end of the tragedy, though, as, despite surviving the fire,
27:49
Speaker 1: just two days later while in the hospital, Dwayne would
27:53
Speaker 1: pass away as well. His injuries were just too severe
27:56
Speaker 1: for him to carry on any longer. With the community
28:00
Speaker 1: immediately going into grief mode, a memorial service was held
28:04
Speaker 1: in the days that followed. After which, on May 16th,
28:08
Speaker 1: Mick and Mairead held a press conference where they continued
28:11
Speaker 1: to push the idea that the fire had nothing to
28:14
Speaker 1: do with them. And despite the public perception around Mick
28:17
Speaker 1: prior to that, the general consensus was that even he
28:21
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone as far as to have any involvement
28:23
Speaker 1: in such an act. in order to ease his pain.
28:26
Speaker 1: A fund was set up which managed to raise over 11,000 pounds,
28:30
Speaker 1: or over 13,000 US dollars, in order to pay for
28:34
Speaker 1: the funerals. Funerals which eventually took place on June 22nd.
28:39
Speaker 1: By the time that day came, neither Mick nor Mairead
28:42
Speaker 1: would be able to attend as they would already be
28:44
Speaker 1: in custody. it hadn't taken long for investigators to start
28:50
Speaker 1: piecing together what really happened on that night. Not just
28:53
Speaker 1: because of the suspicious circumstances around how the fire started,
28:57
Speaker 1: but also because of the seemingly lack of concern Mick
29:00
Speaker 1: had shown. This wasn't just limited to what his neighbors
29:03
Speaker 1: noticed either, because after the children's bodies were taken to
29:07
Speaker 1: the mortuary and the parents were asked to go down
29:10
Speaker 1: and identify them, he appeared to show no signs of
29:13
Speaker 1: distress at all. Sure, grief can cause people to react
29:17
Speaker 1: in strange ways, and this in itself isn't necessarily a
29:19
Speaker 1: sign of his guilt. But when compounded with everything else,
29:22
Speaker 1: including the fact that, as Dwayne lay on life support
29:25
Speaker 1: in a hospital bed, Mick frequently left his side to
29:28
Speaker 1: have a food fight with his wife or to go
29:30
Speaker 1: and hit on other women, it left authorities wondering about
29:32
Speaker 1: what was really going on. On top of that, the
29:36
Speaker 1: press conference held by the two following the deaths of
29:38
Speaker 1: their children raised some alarms amongst body language experts. As Dr.
29:41
Speaker 1: Cliff Lansley would put it in reference to the footage, quote,
29:56
Speaker 1: He's brought his brows together, he looks like he's in
29:59
Speaker 1: pain or he's constipated or something. Despite Lisa already having
30:04
Speaker 1: been arrested by them after evidence of gasoline was found
30:07
Speaker 1: on the premises of the fire, implicating her in an
30:11
Speaker 1: arson attack, the investigation began to shift gears and suspect
30:15
Speaker 1: more and more that the whole thing had been an
30:17
Speaker 1: inside job. to make matters worse. That opinion was also
30:21
Speaker 1: beginning to be shared by the general public after a
30:24
Speaker 1: number of stories came to light that much of the
30:27
Speaker 1: money raised for the funerals was spent by Mick and
30:30
Speaker 1: Morade on shopping sprees and high-end clothing stores. Ultimately, this
30:35
Speaker 1: gave the police all the cause they needed to bug
30:38
Speaker 1: the hotel room where the couple were staying in the
30:40
Speaker 1: hopes they would accidentally give themselves away. And give themselves
30:44
Speaker 1: away they did, because just a couple of days later,
30:47
Speaker 1: Mick could be heard on the recording telling Mairead to
30:50
Speaker 1: stick to their story. Sure, it wasn't an outright admission
30:53
Speaker 1: that they started the fire, but it was enough to
30:56
Speaker 1: prove they knew more than they were letting on. So
30:59
Speaker 1: on May 28th, after Lisa was released without charges, the
31:03
Speaker 1: Philpott's were both arrested on suspicion of murder. Then, just
31:07
Speaker 1: two days after that, following further questioning with the couple
31:11
Speaker 1: and additional evidence gathering, they were at last formally charged
31:15
Speaker 1: with causing the deaths of their children. After discovering not
31:20
Speaker 1: only gasoline containers, but discarded clothing belonging to Mick, Mairead,
31:25
Speaker 1: and Paul Mosley close to the house, police were able
31:28
Speaker 1: to piece together exactly what had happened. This led to
31:32
Speaker 1: Paul also being charged with murder a few months later
31:35
Speaker 1: on November 5th, a charge that was later downgraded to manslaughter.
31:40
Speaker 1: Of course, he wouldn't be the only one whose charge
31:43
Speaker 1: was downgraded, though. No, the Philpott's would also manage to
31:47
Speaker 1: successfully get theirs changed to manslaughter as well, on account
31:51
Speaker 1: of there not being any evidence they'd planned for the
31:53
Speaker 1: kids to die in the fire. Sure, it now looked
31:57
Speaker 1: like they had started the blaze, and it appeared their
31:59
Speaker 1: inability to allow the children a clear path out of
32:02
Speaker 1: the house had directly led to their deaths, but regardless,
32:06
Speaker 1: there was no motive for them to want them dead.
32:09
Speaker 1: If anything, they seemed to want the opposite, and that
32:12
Speaker 1: was all of the family back together under one roof.
32:16
Speaker 1: Even if this was the case, though, six children were
32:19
Speaker 1: dead regardless, and whether the charge was manslaughter or outright murder,
32:23
Speaker 1: prison time seemed assured for the trio. Even Mairead, who
32:27
Speaker 1: had first claimed to be an innocent party, someone only
32:31
Speaker 1: going along with the plan out of fear of repercussions
32:34
Speaker 1: should she have not, was quickly shown to be not
32:37
Speaker 1: so forthcoming with the truth. After all, whether she was
32:41
Speaker 1: initially happy about the plan or not, she had willingly
32:44
Speaker 1: gone along with it, and after the children were dead,
32:47
Speaker 1: she seemed to show little signs of grief, with her
32:50
Speaker 1: main concern being all about the money they were getting
32:53
Speaker 1: for the funerals. As Dr. Carrie Nixon, a forensic psychologist
32:58
Speaker 1: involved in the trial, put it, any mother would recoil
33:02
Speaker 1: in horror at the idea of lighting a fire beneath
33:04
Speaker 1: where your children are sleeping. I have never come across
33:08
Speaker 1: such selfish disregard for their children. Moray doesn't protect her children.
33:13
Speaker 1: In fact, she actually puts them in harm, and that's unforgivable.
33:18
Speaker 1: The jury apparently agreed with this assessment because, on April 2nd, 2013,
33:22
Speaker 1: at Nottingham Crown Court, not only were Mick Philpott and
33:27
Speaker 1: Paul Mosley found guilty of manslaughter, but so was Maraid.
33:32
Speaker 1: Given the evidence presented by the prosecution, there was no
33:35
Speaker 1: way any other decision could be reached. As the judge
33:39
Speaker 1: appointed to the case put it, what the three had
33:41
Speaker 1: concocted together was, quote, a wicked and dangerous plan outside
33:46
Speaker 1: the comprehension of any right-thinking person. That said, for as
33:51
Speaker 1: much blame as he put on both Paul and Morade,
33:53
Speaker 1: special focus was given to the ringleader Mick, with his
33:57
Speaker 1: history of abuse towards others being a key element in
34:00
Speaker 1: judging both his character and his danger towards the public
34:03
Speaker 1: going forward. The judge would tell Mick, quote, Witness after
34:16
Speaker 1: witness described the dynamics in your household. You were the kingpin.
34:21
Speaker 1: No one else mattered. When it came to his claims
34:24
Speaker 1: that the deaths of his children had been accidental and that,
34:27
Speaker 1: because of that, he shouldn't be convicted, the judge stated, quote,
34:31
Speaker 1: What you did intend, plainly, was to subject your children
34:35
Speaker 1: to a terrifying ordeal. They were to be awoken from
34:38
Speaker 1: their beds in the middle of the night with their
34:40
Speaker 1: home on fire so you could rescue them and be
34:43
Speaker 1: the hero. Their terror was the price they were going
34:46
Speaker 1: to pay for your callous selfishness. Clearly, then, there was
34:50
Speaker 1: no sympathy to be had for shameless Mick, and it
34:54
Speaker 1: wasn't just the judge who was happy to give him
34:56
Speaker 1: a piece of his mind as, with the story being
34:58
Speaker 1: so public now, members of the local community appeared at
35:02
Speaker 1: the gallery as he was being led away and shouted out, quote, Die, Mick, die.
35:07
Speaker 1: The only question left was what sentence each of the
35:10
Speaker 1: three would get, and would Mick get a worse sentence
35:13
Speaker 1: than the others on account of him being the man
35:15
Speaker 1: most responsible? On April 3rd, 2013, Mick Philpott was sentenced
35:21
Speaker 1: to life in prison with a minimum of 15 years
35:24
Speaker 1: to be served before parole could be considered. Meanwhile, both
35:28
Speaker 1: Mairead Philpott and Paul Mosley, for their slightly lesser role
35:32
Speaker 1: in the crime, would be sentenced to 17 years apiece,
35:36
Speaker 1: with neither of them being eligible for release until at
35:39
Speaker 1: least half of that had been served. Of course, Mairead
35:42
Speaker 1: would continue to protest her guilt as she claimed any
35:45
Speaker 1: decision she made during that time was done under duress.
35:49
Speaker 1: That was why, later that same year on November 29th,
35:53
Speaker 1: she appealed the court's decision, though the appeal was ultimately dismissed.
35:57
Speaker 1: This wouldn't be the end of the story, though. With
36:00
Speaker 1: all three killers now behind bars, a conversation could begin
36:04
Speaker 1: amongst the UK populace about the state of welfare dependency
36:08
Speaker 1: in the country. This led to such high-level politicians as
36:11
Speaker 1: Chancellor George Osborne getting involved in claiming that in the future,
36:16
Speaker 1: the welfare state should not be subsidizing such people as
36:19
Speaker 1: the Philpottes. Of course, this quickly turned into something of
36:23
Speaker 1: a witch hunt against the working classes in general as
36:26
Speaker 1: the conservative media took the whole thing as an opportunity
36:29
Speaker 1: to lambast the very idea of a welfare state, even
36:33
Speaker 1: for those genuinely in need. At that point, any real
36:37
Speaker 1: discussions got lost amongst the mudslinging on either side. Like
36:41
Speaker 1: with so many other political or social debates, it all
36:44
Speaker 1: got too partisan for the people to communicate clearly. Not
36:48
Speaker 1: that Mick Philpott had any issue with that, however. No,
36:51
Speaker 1: it didn't matter how toxic the debate had gotten, as
36:54
Speaker 1: long as he was at the center of it, he
36:56
Speaker 1: was happy to have the publicity. Even if he was
36:58
Speaker 1: now approaching his 60s and most believed he'd be spending
37:02
Speaker 1: the rest of his life behind bars, he still felt
37:05
Speaker 1: like he was the one who had been unfairly treated.
37:08
Speaker 1: That was why he started a campaign to get released
37:11
Speaker 1: while the public's attention was still on him. As he
37:14
Speaker 1: stated in a letter written to a pen pal around
37:17
Speaker 1: that time, quote, Yep, like any true narcissist, Shameless Mick
37:21
Speaker 1: was completely unable to accept any responsibility for his actions.
37:39
Speaker 1: And as far as he saw it, it was only
37:41
Speaker 1: a matter of time before he was a free man
37:43
Speaker 1: once more and allowed to be reunited with his wife.
37:47
Speaker 1: But if he really truly believed that, he was very
37:49
Speaker 1: wrong and not only was there zero hope his sentence
37:52
Speaker 1: would be commuted, but there was also further trouble set
37:56
Speaker 1: to come his way. Soon after his stint behind bars began,
38:00
Speaker 1: he was interviewed by the police in relation to accusations
38:03
Speaker 1: of rape made against him. While the investigation into the
38:07
Speaker 1: arson had been going on, Several witnesses had divulged information
38:11
Speaker 1: which implicated Mick in a number of sexual assaults that
38:15
Speaker 1: took place over the years, with one of them dating
38:17
Speaker 1: as far back as 1996. In the end, despite his
38:22
Speaker 1: history making it highly possible, if not outright likely, he
38:25
Speaker 1: did in fact commit these rapes, there was not enough
38:28
Speaker 1: evidence to convict him and the case was eventually dropped.
38:32
Speaker 1: He would remain behind bars anyway, though, much to the
38:35
Speaker 1: delight of his now estranged sister, Charmaine, who had no
38:38
Speaker 1: further contact with him after his incarceration. Even now, locked
38:43
Speaker 1: up without the support of his remaining family, Mick was
38:46
Speaker 1: still able to game the system to the point where
38:48
Speaker 1: he was able to get new teeth made for him,
38:51
Speaker 1: all at the UK taxpayer's expense, of course. As for
38:55
Speaker 1: the other two people involved in the murder of six children,
38:58
Speaker 1: things would end up working out okay for them in
39:00
Speaker 1: the long run, as in November of 2020, after serving
39:04
Speaker 1: only eight years of her sentence, Mairead Philpott was released
39:08
Speaker 1: on account of good behavior. Not that many people believed
39:12
Speaker 1: she should have been released, though. As research director for
39:15
Speaker 1: the Center for Crime Prevention, David Spence would put it, quote,
39:19
Speaker 1: The system of automatically releasing criminals like her halfway through
39:23
Speaker 1: their sentence means that in cases like this, justice has
39:26
Speaker 1: not been done. This needs to change. For crimes like these,
39:30
Speaker 1: those convicted need to serve their full sentence. Hell, even
39:35
Speaker 1: her own mother would later go on record as to
39:37
Speaker 1: say that, on account of the unforgivable nature of her crimes,
39:41
Speaker 1: she should have stayed in prison for longer. But there
39:44
Speaker 1: was little she or the rest of the public could
39:46
Speaker 1: do to change that now. All that could be done
39:49
Speaker 1: instead was to fight to make sure Mairead wasn't allowed
39:52
Speaker 1: to return to the area she'd lived previously, as the
39:56
Speaker 1: locals no longer felt safe with her being there. Understandably.
40:00
Speaker 1: The residents felt so strong about it that the local
40:03
Speaker 1: Conservative MP for Mid-Darbyshire was compelled to take up the
40:07
Speaker 1: cause personally when, in a public statement made not long
40:10
Speaker 1: after Mairead's release, she stated, allowing such an early release
40:15
Speaker 1: was a disgrace to the memories of the children who died,
40:18
Speaker 1: and that she would do everything in her power to
40:21
Speaker 1: make sure Mairead was not able to return to Derby.
40:24
Speaker 1: Just one year later, in May of 2021, Paul Mosley
40:28
Speaker 1: was released from prison as well. Thankfully, though, in his case,
40:33
Speaker 1: his freedom would prove to be short-lived as two months later,
40:36
Speaker 1: on July 10th, he was caught violating the terms of
40:39
Speaker 1: his parole conditions and was sent right back behind bars.
40:43
Speaker 1: Even this many years removed, the effects of these crimes
40:46
Speaker 1: and others are still being felt. not just amongst the
40:49
Speaker 1: local community where it happened, but also in the previous
40:53
Speaker 1: victims of McPhilpot. After all, let's not forget that being
40:57
Speaker 1: responsible for the death of six of his children was
41:00
Speaker 1: only his final and most severe crime. Before that, there
41:04
Speaker 1: was still a long history of abuse, both physical and emotional,
41:08
Speaker 1: which shouldn't be forgotten. For his first known victim, Kim Hill,
41:12
Speaker 1: the after-effects of that abuse continued to linger. Following her
41:17
Speaker 1: own attempted murder, she'd be forced to have a hysterectomy.
41:21
Speaker 1: One of the knife wounds inflicted upon her by her
41:23
Speaker 1: former partner led to a prolapsed womb, with that meaning
41:27
Speaker 1: she would never be able to have children of her own.
41:30
Speaker 1: That's a key fact to remember in this case because,
41:33
Speaker 1: while it's important to never forget the kids who died, Jade, John, Jack, Jesse, Jaden,
41:39
Speaker 1: and Dwayne, it's equally as important to remember the others
41:43
Speaker 1: often forgotten victims of this monster. Even Kim Hill's mother Shirley,
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Speaker 1: who was later diagnosed with terminal cancer of the liver,
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Speaker 1: would blame that cancer on the scarring inflicted upon her
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Speaker 1: organs when Mick stabbed her. Because of that, she took
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Speaker 1: to labeling herself his final victim and proof that after
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Speaker 1: all of these years, even with him now being safely
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Speaker 1: behind bars, his reign of terror continues to live on.
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Speaker 1: What can be taken from the case of Mick Philpott?
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Speaker 1: On one hand, it's about the evils of one man
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Speaker 1: and the dangers of letting narcissism be given free reign.
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Speaker 1: It's about the cult of personality and fear, and how
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Speaker 1: it can cause others to get caught up in its
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Speaker 1: web and be led down a dark path. Aside from that,
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Speaker 1: it's also a story about having to take ownership of
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Speaker 1: your actions. After all, while there may have been some
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Speaker 1: level of duress behind Moraine's actions to take part in
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Speaker 1: the fire on that fateful night, this in no way
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Speaker 1: absolves her of blame. She's just as culpable in many ways,
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Speaker 1: especially as the victims were her own children. Finally, it's
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Speaker 1: a story about the complex way class is treated in
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Speaker 1: the UK, something that can be seen both in the
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Speaker 1: vilifying manner the media often treat those on welfare, and
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Speaker 1: also in the way real-life villains can abuse that very
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Speaker 1: welfare system in order to meet their own ends. Monsters
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Speaker 1: like McPhilpot will always be there, either hiding in the
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Speaker 1: shadows or in plain sight, and with their ability to manipulate,
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Speaker 1: they'll continue to benefit regardless of who gets hurt in
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Speaker 1: the process. If you're the victim of domestic abuse, please
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Speaker 1: reach out to someone for help. Please talk to your
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Speaker 1: local shelter or call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE.
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Speaker 1: That's 1-800-799-7233. Or you can go to thehotline.org to chat
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Speaker 1: with someone online. This website is set up so that,
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Speaker 1: at any time, hitting the escape key twice will take
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Speaker 1: you to a Google search page. That way, if your
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Speaker 1: abuser is nearby, you won't get caught seeking help. If
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Speaker 1: you're having feelings of harming yourself or someone else, or
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Speaker 1: even just need someone to talk to, please contact your
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Speaker 1: local mental health facility. Call 911 or call the National
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Speaker 1: Suicide Prevention Hotline by simply dialing 988 in the United States.
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Speaker 1: They're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
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Speaker 1: and will talk to you about any mental health issue
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Speaker 1: you may be facing. If you are a member of
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Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus community and suffering from discrimination, depression, or
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Speaker 1: are in need of any support, please contact the LGBT
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Speaker 1: National Hotline at 1-888-843-4564 or go to lgbthotline.org. Thanks again,
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Speaker 1: and be safe.