Mairead Philpott Released.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-54691709

Jailed for 17 and serves 7, thats about right with our judiciary system, she should never see the light of day again.

[Unsureme]

Don't you just love the Justice System.NOT.

[Mozz71]

Sometimes I wonder if we made the right decision in dropping the death sentence.

[ummmm]

Don't forget...she didn't actually do it. She's was in a very domineering relationship and was probably very scared.

And NO....I'm not excusing her but I also think she was a victim of that monster.

[LadyCG]

I suspect the tax payer will continue to keep her.

[rowanwitch]

She won't have much of a life on the outside unless she is given a new identity. She may be a victim of a controlling monster but she is still alive and relatively young. I am not sure how she has been able to live with what she was part of, but I can't begin to get my head around it and the way the legal system has failed to value the lives of the children who died.

[iluvmargie]

Whether she was in a domineering relationship or not, why the hell sentence her for 17 years and make her serve just 7?? Does NOT make sense. I'm pretty certain she will have a new identity.

[237SJ]

^Of course she will have a new identity. Just like Maxine Carr.

[New Judge]

I think, including time spent on remand, she will have served eight and a half years which is half her sentence. With a very few exceptions (none of which apply here) all prisoners serving determinate sentences are released automatically and unconditionally at the half way point in their sentence. They serve the rest of it "in the community."

[ladybirder]

Great, she can go on and have more kids now!

[ummmm]

And probably have them removed from her custody.

[Cloverjo]

The poor woman. Lost all her kids. Her only crime was to get mixed up with monster Mick.

[237SJ]

Don't feel sorry for her

[Unsureme]

She did NOTHING to stop him setting fire to the house,so don't feel sorry for her,cloverjo.

[anneasquith]

7 years. Just imagine how these children died.

[ummmm]

I don't feel sorry for her because of the outcome of what he persuaded her to go along with. I don't know how stupid she is but I do believe that she thought they'd be saved.

[Cloverjo]

She is obviously very stupid, and that’s partly why I feel sorry for her. And she lost her children.

[Jackdaw33]

Given their parentage the children are probably now in a far better place.

[Ellipsis]

What, dead? Having been burned alive?

That's surely not the best way to have separated the innocent children from their terrible parents.

[Jackdaw33]

I didn't say that.

[fbg40]

I'm surprised she made it in prison - perhaps she spent all of her "short" time on a special wing ! Shouls have been locked up and the key thrown away imho.
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