The Oh, oh, oh, oh, Welcome. Welcome to Morburogy, the podcast. I'm your host Emily G Thompson,

author of Unsoft Child Murders and co-author of Unsolved Murders, True all have ambitions and goals. For a number of people all across the world, their life's ambition is quite simply to have a large family.

In a perfect world, babies are born into hardworking families that do their best to provide for them a loving home and a stable

environment. But what about those that are seen as nothing more than a source of income or a commodity?

Mick Philpot, first saw his name in the headlines in 2006 when he requested a bigger council house for his massive family.

Philpot had fathered 17 children by a number of different women and to fund his large family

he relied solely on state benefits.

His lifestyle was something which angered a number of hard-working Britons who felt

as though he was pro-creating solely as a means of income.

Britain had almost forgotten about the Philpot family when in 2012 a tragedy struck when their house went up in flames,

opening one of the most lurid and sensational criminal investigations that the United Kingdom had ever seen. Mick Philpot had a history of being violent, domineering and controlling towards women and he preyed on young and damaged women who came from troubled backgrounds.

When Phil Pot was just 21 years old in 1978, he went A-wall from the army. It was during this time that he attempted to kill

his 17-year-old girlfriend, Kim Hall, who he had been dating for two years. Throughout the couple's relationship, Philpott was

extremely controlling and abusive. I used to have to be in for about eight or feet and

I was a bit late and I was walking down the hill to get to our house and about two

doors down he jumped out and he wanted to know where I'd been and all that and I

told him where I'd been and that and he called me a lie and I was cheating on him and that was the first time he ever hit me and it was sort of a

slaps around the face and that.

I always started crying after that saying he was sorry it never happened again, don't finish with him and all this, that and the other, don't tell me dad and that, and I didn't.

I felt sorry for him. I thought you know it's not him but then it started

happening a little bit more frequent he used to play in the pool team at the local

pub and me and my cousin was sat watching and

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