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True Crime

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1. A few links

Reply to Scairp (Original post)

Sat Jun 2, 2012, 07:48 AM

Jun 2012

BBC Report

The Independent

Mr Philpott, an unemployed father of 17 children, has regularly appeared in television programmes and newspapers as a supposed symbol of Britain's welfare benefits culture.

The Philpott's are aged 55 (him) and 33 (her) they married when she was 16. There were a total of 17 children in the house, only 6 were killed. Mr Philpott was the father of all the children but there were 5 different mothers including his wife Mairead.

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Six British children die in a house fire, parents have been arrested [View all] Scairp Jun 2012 OP

A few links intaglio Jun 2012 #1

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