Mick Philpott’s “sick and deluded“ pal who helped him kill six children has died in prison.
Paul Mosley was caged for 17 years after being found guilty
The 58-year-old helped set a fire, alongside parents Mick and Mairead Philpott, at their Allenton home in on May 11, 2012.
Duwayne Philpott, 13, his sister Jade, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, eight, Jessie, six and Jayden, five, all tragically died in the blaze.
After the trio were arrested, it emerged Philpott encouraged Mosley to have sex with Mairead while he first watched, then joined in.
One sordid session took place while police were bugging a hotel room where they had the killers housed.
The evil trio were put on trial at Nottingham Crown , and convicted of six counts of manslaughter.
Philpott was jailed for life while Mosley and Mairead Philpott were sentenced to 17 years.
The court head how Mick masterminded the horror, enlisting his wife and Mosley to ignite a fire at the bottom of their stairs.
They hoped to get a bigger council house and Mick was meant to rescue the kids but was beaten back by flames.
Sickeningly, in the wake of the deaths, Philpott put on an extravagant
show of grief.
He and Mairead sobbed as they appealed to the public at a press conference to help “catch their children’s killer.”
Sentencing the killers following a trial in 2013, Justice Mrs Kate Thirlwell KC said: “All three of you are responsible for the deliberate setting of that fire. All three of you are responsible for those deaths.
“I have not the slightest doubt that you, Michael Philpott, were the driving force behind this shockingly dangerous enterprise.
“You Mairead Philpott, the mother of all of those children and you, Paul Mosley, a family friend assisted him.
“It was a wicked and dangerous plan and you (Philpott) put it into effect with the assistance of your two co-defendants.
“You poured petrol on the floor. Paul Mosley was responsible for removing the containers from your home.
“You (Philpott) set light to it and after a short while Mairead Philpott spoke to the emergency services, it became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
“You (Mosley) have young children of your own.
“You must have appreciated the appalling risk to which these six children were to be exposed when this fire was started in their home.
“And yet you were prepared to go along with the plan and to join in with it to please your then friend, Michael Philpott.
“I am quite sure that one of your tasks that night was to remove the petrol containers from the scene so that the attack would appear to have come from outside.
“You enjoyed the attention that you gained from your proximity to the fire. You boasted of being arrested and bailed for 6 counts of murder. You could not help telling people that this was a plan that had gone wrong.”
Philpott remains in prison, while and given a new identity.
Mosely had been released in 2021 but was recalled in November 2023.
Paul Mosley, 58, has died
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