Paul Mosley, 58, was convicted following a seven-week trial of killing six children belonging to the Philpott family in Allenton, Derbyshire where the youngsters lived
Child killer Paul Mosley who took the lives of six kids after starting a house fire has died, according to his family.
The death of the 58-year-old was confirmed by one of his own family members, along with a relative of the six children whose lives he jointly took. Mosley, along with the parents of the six victims – Mick and Mairead Philpott – deliberately started a fire at the house in Allenton, Derbyshire, where the youngsters lived, which killed them on May 11, 2012.
Following a seven-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court, Mosley and the Philpotts were convicted of six counts of manslaughter. Duwayne Philpott, 13, his sister Jade, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, eight, Jessie, six and Jayden, five, died in the fire.
Sentencing the trio following the trial in 2013, Justice Mrs Kate Thirlwell KC said: “All three of you are responsible for the deliberate setting of that fire. All three of you are responsible for those deaths.
“I have not the slightest doubt that you, Michael Philpott, were the driving force behind this shockingly dangerous enterprise. You Mairead Philpott, the mother of all of those children and you, Paul Mosley, a family friend assisted him.
“It was a wicked and dangerous plan and you (Philpott) put it into effect with the assistance of your two codefendants. You poured petrol on the floor. Paul Mosley was responsible for removing the containers from your home.
“You (Philpott) set light to it and after a short while Mairead Philpott spoke to the emergency services, it became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished. You (Mosley) have young children of your own.
“You must have appreciated the appalling risk to which these six children were to be exposed when this fire was started in their home. And yet you were prepared to go along with the plan and to join in with it to please your then friend, Michael Philpott.
“I am quite sure that one of your tasks that night was to remove the petrol containers from the scene so that the attack would appear to have come from outside.
“You enjoyed the attention that you gained from your proximity to the fire. You boasted of being arrested and bailed for 6 counts of murder. You could not help telling people that this was a plan that had gone wrong.”
The judge jailed Philpott, now 69, for life while his wife, now 44, and Mosley were jailed for 17 years. While he remains in prison, she was released in 2020 with a new identity, reported DerbyshireLive. In 2021, Mosley was released partway through his sentence but recalled and then later released again in November 2023.