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I'm Sruti, I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. In the early hours of the morning of the 11th of May,

2010, an explosive fire broke out at 18 Victory Road in Darby,

which is a town that's like slap bang in the middle of England. The front door was totally engulfed by a wall of fire,

and thick black smoke was pouring out of the house. Neighbours were screaming and a couple,

make them a raid fill pot, stood outside and watched in stunned silence.

The emergency services arrived within minutes of the alarm being raised, but it was already too late.

One by one the bodies of the six fill pot children who lived in the house were carried out and laid on the grass in front of the burning building.

Across the country there was an outpouring of grief and sympathy for this family who had lost so much.

But always not what it seemed, because just six weeks later the parents, Mick and Maraid fill pot,

were arrested for the manslaughter of their six children. Duane 13, J10, John 9, Jack 8, Jessie 6 and Jaden 5.

But to understand what led to these horrific murders, we have to first go back to when Mick met Maraid.

The pair met in 2001 when Maraid Duffy was just 19 and Mick was 37.

Maraid had previously been in an abusive relationship and Mick saw her as the perfect target.

The relationship quickly became serious and Maraid felt pregnant, but it wasn't enough for Mick because the same year he also met 17 year old Lisa Willis and started in a fair with her.

Now Mick was not the kind of guy to just do regular, horrible, unforgivable cheating.

He wasn't about to sack one of them off, he wanted it all, and he wasn't even going to keep it a secret,

because that was just too much like hard work. So he moved Lisa into the house, he shared with Maraid.

What kind of conversation are you having with your partner when you're like, okay, here's how it's gonna go.

I'm cheating on you, she's not going anywhere, and you're not either, this is just our life now.

I mean it really sets up just what type of man Mick was and the type of women he went after that he was able to have those conversations with them.

And as if this wasn't weird enough, the fact that they now were living together in 2003, Mick married Maraid.

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