Mum who killed her six children in house fire is freed after eight years

Mairead Philpott, 39, killed her six children in an arson attack in 2012 (Picture: Enterprise News and Pictures)A mum who killed her six children in an arson attack has been freed from jail after serving just eight years – half of her 17-year sentence.Mairead Philpott, 39, was jailed for manslaughter in 2013, one year after she, her husband Mick and their friend Paul Mosley killed their children in a house fire.
The couple had planned for the blaze to look like an attack orchestrated by Mi