Philpott's Appeals Rejected

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-23494297

Just in case anybody missed it on the news today. Evil people..I hope they rot in jail for what they did to those beautiful children.

[ummmm]

I don't think she's evil. I think 'he' is and he's domineered and bullied her so much over the years that he'd knocked all confidence out of her.

I don't think for a second that she thought his evil plan might go wrong.

[tonyav]

Good.

[viv38]

I don't think she's evil either, just not very well educated and easily led. I'm not defending what she did though, far from it. He, on the other hand, is evil personified and I'm glad his appeal was rejected.

[ummmm]

I'm not defending her either. But being scared and stupid doesn't make her evil.

[mikey4444]

OK...maybe she isn't evil. But stupidity brought about the deaths of her own children. I find it hard to imagine how anybody could be that stupid.

[viv38]

She probably didn't think they'd die, especially as Philpott was in charge of it all. Yes, I think she would be that stupid after seeing her on TV.

[ummmm]

I don't find it hard to believe. I've seen first hand how easy it is to take complete control over another person. They knock your confidence so much that you can't even think for yourself.

She's stupid...but she's his victim as well.

[tonyav]

Well she was stupid enough to let his girlfriend live with them !.

[ummmm]

Exactly!! What woman who wasn't under someones complete control would let that happen?

[tonyav]

I watched a documentary programme about the Philpotts, he was an absolute control freak.

[ummmm]

Yes, and she was one of his victims. Now she's lost her children and her freedom....all because of him and her fear of him.

If he was capable of doing this to try and frame the other GF could you imagine what he was really like?

People think it's easy to leave...it's not, when someone has you so controlled that you no longer form your own opinion. It's sad...

[tonyav]

The girlfriend had left when this evil controlling scum bag did what he did, so she somehow found the courage, wonder why the wife didn't.

[bazwillrun]

dont understand whats shes complaining about...she only got seventeen years....

shes lucky she doesnt get her sentenced doubled al la Stuart Hall

[mikey4444]

What I find difficult to understand is just what was the attraction for these two stupid women in Philpott ? He's hardly an oil painting. When I saw him on the TV with Ann Widdecombe, it took me about 10 seconds to see that he was a complete tw*t. A truly horrible man.

[tonyav]

I found that difficult to understand as well, mikey. Strange eh.

[ummmm]

Tony - Maybe the GF had more support via family.

Mikey - that's the thing I find so baffling. Toothless, jobless, bully....

[jno]

different people have different perceptions, mikey. What's obvious to one isn't obvious to another. Bullies tend to prey on the weak and vulnerable; if you're not vulnerable yourself, you may be immune to whatever attraction he has, but it doesn't mean others will be.

[tonyav]

Tony - Maybe the GF had more support via family.

Yep, could have been.

[mikey4444]

This Philpott business has been discussed on AB ad nausea. It still remains that everybody stood by while he carried on his disgraceful behaviour. I am on record for saying many times that if those children had been taken into care, they would still be alive today.

This case upset me more than I can tell, and it still does. Those beautiful children.

[ummmm]

Why would they have been taken into care? I don't think they were considered at risk.