Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Child killer’s plea for prison reunion with ex

Philpott begs to see freed Mairead

- BY MARTIN FRICKER martin.fricker@mirror.co.uk @martinfric­ker

FIRE death dad Mick Philpott wants a reunion behind bars with his exwife and fellow child killer Mairead.

The 65-year-old has told pals he wants Mairead, 39, to visit him in HMP Wakefield, where he is serving a life term.

His ex, who divorced him in 2014, has been living in a bail hostel since being freed from HMP Send in Surrey last month.

S h e ser ved half of a 17-year jail term for killing six of her children in an arson attack in Derby in May 2012.

Mick told a pal during a recent prison phone call of his hopes to be reunited. The friend said: “Mick’s desperate to see her. He’s never really accepted they are separated.

“He wants her to come to visit him in prison and is talking about filling in the paperwork. He asked me to contact her

family to find out how to get in touch with her but I don’t want anything to do with it. Anyway, he’s deluded if he thinks the authoritie­s would allow it.

“They won’t let them be together.” Mairead is subject to strict bail conditions, which are understood to include not being allowed to contact her ex-husband or visit Derby.

Her husband was jailed for life in 2013 for starting the blaze at the family home in the Allenton area of the city.

He was told he must serve at least 15 years behind bars before being considered for parole.

The couple were convicted of six counts of manslaught­er along with a third defendant. Jade Philpott, 10, and her brothers Duwayne, 13, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, all died in the fire.

Mick is desperate to see her, he’s never accepted separation PAL OF PHILPOTT ON KILLER’S HOPES

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DAMAGE House which Philpott set fire to
EVIL Couple after fire that killed their six children DAMAGE House which Philpott set fire to

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