BBC: Murderer of His 6 Children was 'Good Parent'

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I had to wonder when I saw the BBC headline on this story, why they ran it like this:
Philpott sentencing: Derby fire deaths duo ‘good’ parents

Reading the story later in the Mail, I knew there had to be a reason why the BBC had purposefully omitted to tell their readers that this piece of shit was anything but a good parent. Especially as they were completely aware of this fact since the Mail tells us:

Her sisters, Jennifer and Bernadette, told a BBC Panorama programme aired last night that they frequently tried to rescue them from Philpott’s clutches. They explained how Mairead attempted suicide in the months before the fire.

Afterwards, Philpott allowed the eldest child, Duwayne, 13, to have a sleepover at Bernadette’s house.

She said the little boy was in a terrible state. ‘Mick said he hadn’t eaten for a week and I took him and my little boy out for a pizza. I had never seen a child eat so fast in my life.’
Of course, it all rather contradicts Philpott’s great claim, wheeled out whenever he was criticised about his lifestyle, that he was a ‘great dad’.

Not to mention the other examples in the article that show what shits they really were to their kids.

Clearly the BBC doesn’t want to show that this benefit claimant could be anything else than an upright moral citizen, who meant to save his children but just made a little mistake. Especially since they had used him on a previous documentary on the welfare system.

What with Philpott, and the ‘ducker and diver’ they used to lambast IDS, they’re really batting a 1000 on their selections to pursue their agenda.

Shows how tough it is for them to prove something so patently rubbish.

Here's the BBC article, then read the Mail article on the link provided to see the stark difference:

Philpott sentencing: Derby fire deaths duo 'good' parents

A mother and father convicted of killing six of their children in a house fire were "good" parents, a court has heard.

Mick and Mairead Philpott are due to be sentenced for manslaughter on Thursday, along with their friend Paul Mosley.

Barristers representing the Derby parents told the judge the children had been loved and "happy".

But the court heard 56-year-old Philpott had a criminal record and had tried to murder a previous girlfriend.

He was jailed for seven years in 1978 after repeatedly stabbing her and given a concurrent five-year sentence for stabbing her mother, causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

In 1991 he received a two-year conditional discharge for assault occasioning actual bodily harm after he headbutted a colleague.

And in 2010 he was given a police caution after slapping Mairead and dragging her outside by her hair.

Rape allegation
When Philpott set fire to his house in Victory Road, Derby, he was facing trial over a road rage incident in which he punched a motorist in the face.

He had admitted common assault in relation to the incident but denied dangerous driving.

Police have also confirmed that they intend to "thoroughly" investigate an allegation that Philpott raped a woman several years ago.

She made the allegation after the death of Philpott's children, but police decided to wait until the end of the manslaughter trial before investigating the complaint further.

On Tuesday the jury at Nottingham Crown Court returned unanimous manslaughter verdicts on Philpott and Mosley, 46, while Mairead Philpott, 32, was convicted by a majority.

Not 'deliberately harmed'
Mrs Justice Thirlwall said she earlier that she would "consider the sentences" and hand them down on Thursday - it had been expected the three would learn of their sentences on Wednesday.

Anthony Orchard QC, representing Philpott, said: "Despite Mr Philpott's faults he was a very good father and loved those children.

"All the witnesses, even Lisa Willis [Philpott's former mistress], agree on this.

Five of the children died at the Victory Road house and the eldest died in hospital
"There's no evidence at any stage that he deliberately harmed any of them."

Mr Orchard said Philpott's conviction for attempting to murder his previous girlfriend by repeatedly stabbing her was a "long time ago" and there was no evidence of anything like that being repeated.

But the judge interrupted and said: "There's been violence in every single relationship, has there not?"

Shaun Smith QC, for Mairead Philpott, said there was no evidence "any of these children were in any sort of danger or peril prior to that night [of the fire] whatsoever".

"The entirety of the evidence is that Mairead Philpott was an extremely good mother to all 11 children [who had been living in the house]," he said.

'Child killer'
Mr Smith added they were "happy children" who were "well nourished" and "well looked after".

He said when released from prison, Mairead Philpott would have no support network from family, and she would not be able to have children or be involved with any despite her great love for them.

"She will be forever known as a child killer," Mr Smith said.

Jade Philpott, 10, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the fire on 11 May 2012.

Mairead Philpott's son from a previous relationship, 13-year-old Duwayne, died later in hospital.

The judge was told that Mosley, "a family man with two children", still denies any involvement in the fire.

The trial heard it was started to frame Philpott's former live-in mistress, Lisa Willis, who had left the house taking her five children.

Philpott hoped this would help him get custody of the children, the prosecution said, but the plan went "horribly wrong" as Philpott was unable to rescue them from the blaze.

Jurors were also told that Philpott may have hoped to obtain a bigger council house, but Mrs Justice Thirlwall said welfare dependency had not caused him to kill.

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The hypocrisy of the left, led by the BBC, knows no bounds.

The BBC feels justified using 7/7 for a documentary airing the conspiracy view that the government plotted the attack. Even blowing up a bus for the programme just to make sure the images get through. They are clearly not concerned about the feelings of the families that suffered the loss of loved ones or who were severely injured and traumatised by this event, to pursue their idea of 'entertainment'.

Yet following the trial of Philpott, which highlighted the degenerate lifestyle of this man and the women who tied themselves to him, it is a fair observation to see just how the welfare system made this kind of vile scum possible. But at this, the left have no problem trying to obfuscate their responsibility for having created this system by accusing the Tories of using the death of children to raise the subject.

Once again, the Left censors vital debate

Yesterday, as Mick Philpott was quite rightly jailed for life for manslaughter, the Chancellor was asked if this horrific case raised questions about the welfare state which sustained the killer’s odiously degenerate lifestyle.

He said Philpott himself must take responsibility for starting the council house fire which snuffed out six lives, including five of the 17 children he produced to increase his welfare benefits.

Mr Osborne added: ‘There is a question for government and for society about the welfare state, and the taxpayers who pay for the welfare state, subsidising lifestyles like that. That debate needs to be had.’

It was a reasonable statement to make about an increasingly bankrupt Britain’s unsustainable £180billion-a-year welfare bill which, while providing a humane safety net for the genuinely needy, is indisputably abused on a major scale.

Barely had the Chancellor finished speaking than Ed Miliband, who is rapidly emerging as one of the shallowest, most opportunistic Labour leaders, rushed out a condemnatory press release.

Then that preposterous social engineer Ed Balls – one of the main architects of Britain’s economic debacle – accused Mr Osborne of a ‘cynical’ and ‘desperate’ act which had ‘demeaned’ his office.

Meanwhile, aided and abetted by the BBC, the Left-wing commentariat hysterically demonised anybody who dared suggest the over-generous welfare system had allowed Philpott to live a vile, base life, while his taxpayer funded existence – the equivalent of a salary of almost £100,000 – was cynically ignored.

Thus, the Left tried to censor the debate on welfare that the Chancellor said Britain needs to have. In the same way, the Left has tried to silence criticism of Labour’s open door immigration policies – this despite the social damage, as Frank Field so bravely points out, inflicted on Britain’s poor, white working class.

But then if Labour and the Left really cared about the working class they would try to understand why poll after poll has shown that three-quarters of voters (including most Labour supporters) want benefits reined in, with tougher entitlement tests and conditions.

If Labour really cared for the working class it would care more about the high taxes being paid by the decent majority to sustain benefits for the likes of Philpott to enjoy what the BBC so risibly calls his ‘unconventional lifestyle’.

And if the Left really cared about the poor, it would accept that welfare dependency has created an ugly underclass in Britain that, in a terrible irony, often inflicts huge damage on decent working class communities.

Let’s be absolutely clear: This paper has huge sympathy with those who have fallen on hard times and genuinely need to take advantage of the State’s safety net while still leading utterly proper lives.

But we make no apology for triggering the welfare debate Britain must have if it is to cure the socially and morally destructive disease of welfarism, and build an economically sustainable future for the whole nation.

Nor do we apologise for suggesting that this could be an opportunity for the Tory Party to reconnect with both its core supporters and the aspirational working class which backed Mrs Thatcher and is now sick and tired of subsidising a welfare system which has spiralled out of control.

On welfare, Labour has shown it does not begin to understand the concerns of ordinary voters.

The Tories – if they have the courage to grasp the nettle – can speak directly to them and build a platform which could sustain them in government for years.