Michael Philpott with his wife Mairead and his mistress Lisa Willis.

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.

Father-of-seventeen Mick Philpott, pictured with his wife Mairead Philpott (left) and girlfriend Lisa Willis
(right) and eleven of his children.
 (Rex Features)

Mick Philpott with his family.

Mick Philpott with his family.

Mick Philpott with his family.

Respect: Well-wishers had left hundreds of cards, flowers, teddy bears and candles after a candlelit vigil.

Young lives destroyed: The six coffins carrying the Philpotts's children are carried into St Mary's Roman
Catholic Church for their funeral.

Killed by their own parents: Six wooden crosses mark the graves of the Philpott children.

The victims

Michael Philpott pictured with the six children, aged between five and 13, who perished in the house fire.

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.

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.

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