Wednesday 15 June 2022 10:01 PM How sick child killer Mick Philpott 'revealed his true nature' when he hurled ... trends now
This is the frightening moment that Mick Philpott, who was jailed for the deaths of six of his children who he killed in a fire to get a better council house, became aggressive to an MP on camera to reveal his wicked nature.
A clip from a new documentary on the 66-year-old convicted killer Mick Philpott looks at the moment Ann Widdecombe, who at the time was the MP for Maidstone and The Weald, met him in 2007 for her ITV programme Ann Widdecombe Versus The Benefit Culture.
The former social security minister was in a local pub with Philpott as she pressed him on why he would not work rather than using his children as 'meal tickets'.
At one point during their interactions in the pub, Widdecombe, who was 59 at the time and smaller in stature to an aggressive Philpott, she calls him a coward.
Philpott stands up suddenly to get in Widdecombe's face, saying, 'Let's see who's a coward b****, let's f****** move it,' pointing his finger before he storms off camera.
In May 2012 Michael 'Shameless Mick' Philpott set fire to his house with six of his children still inside. After campaigning for years, it was an extreme plot that he invented to get a larger house from the council.
Philpott had planned to run in and rescue his children. But the plan backfired, with the fire killing all six children inside the property.
He tried to cover up what had really happened and even went as far as addressing TV cameras in a press conference, presenting himself as a hero who tried to fight through the flames to save his children.
The six Philpott children - Duwayne, 13, his sister, Jade, 10, and their brothers, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six and Jayden, five, all died from the effects of smoke inhalation after fire swept through their home on Victory Road, Allenton.
But he was jailed for life in April 2013 after killing six of his children in a fire at their home in Derby.
He and hatched a plan with wife Mairead and friend Paul Mosley to incriminate her while posing as a hero who saved his children.
His wife Mairead and family friend Paul Mosley were jailed for 17 years. The trio had been convicted of six counts of manslaughter.
This is the frightening moment that Mick Philpott, who was jailed for the deaths of six of his children who he killed in a fire to get a better council house, became aggressive towards Ann Widdecombe
A clip from a new documentary on the 66-year-old convicted killer Mick Philpott looks at the moment Ann Widdecombe, who at the time was the MP for Maidstone and The Weald, met him in 2007 for her ITV programme Ann Widdecombe Versus The Benefit Culture
At one point during their interactions in the pub, Widdecombe calls him a coward. Philpott stands up suddenly to get in Widdecombe's face, saying, 'Let's see who's a coward b****, let's f****** move it,' pointing his finger before he storms off camera
Philpott's live-in mistress, had left the family home with her four children a few months before the fire, and a custody hearing over the children was scheduled to take place on the morning of the fire.
Speaking to the BBC in 2013 on the week Mick and Mairead were sentenced for the children's murders, Ann Widdecombe said: 'He was very controlling of the women, extremely manipulative of the system, he was not at all a pleasant character.'
And on the court case that was unfolding at the time, she added: 'I'm appalled by the whole situation but everything that has emerged is consistent with the Mick Philpott that I very briefly knew during the course of that week.
'I have no doubt that he used his children as meal tickets, and the fact that he didn't work was owing to a state system which allowed him
