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Monster Dad Who Burned His Kids to Death Gets Vicious Prison Justice

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Convicted child killer Mick Philpott has reportedly been left “battered and bruised” after a vicious prison ambush at HMP Wakefield – in what insiders are calling the worst attack he’s faced since his imprisonment.

Philpott, now 68, was sentenced to life in 2013 after a horrifying house fire he started killed six of his children in a twisted revenge plot against his ex-lover. The blaze, which destroyed their Derby family home, shocked the nation and sealed Philpott’s infamy as one of Britain’s most hated criminals.

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