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The Mick Philpott press conference
Bear Camping Everything Will Kill You So Choose Something Fun Shirt In around 2012there was a big story here in England about Mick and Mairead Philpott. Their house had burned down and they had lost 6 of their children (Philpott had 17 children overall from different relationships). This press conference happened shortly after and shows an emotional pair thanking people for their efforts trying to save the children.
Turns out, Philpott was a well known slimeball who lived off benefits, had numerous kids with different women, was in an open marriage that only he seemed happy about and had been on tv before bragging about his life.
When one of his mistresses decided she’d had enough and left, she took her kids with her. Philpott didn’t like that so concocted a plan to set fire to his own house, rescue his kids in a feat of heroism and frame the woman who left him so she’d lose custody of the kids. The fire got out of control way quicker than he expected and he ended up killing his own children.
He did that press conference knowing he was responsible. He’s now serving life in prison.
EDIT: There’s a great picture out there somewhere taken during the same press conference. It shows one of the police officers assigned to the case with a look of disgust, almost like he’s thinking ‘we know you did it, we just can’t prove it yet.’ I’ve seen it said that the Braun films are so disturbing because they show Hitler being human and we have this tendency to paint these deeply evil people as monsters. Like, we spend so much time portraying them as monsters in order to contextualize and distance ourselves from the horror they caused that we lose track of their humanity. Being reminded that they are human just like us, and still capable of such monstrous evil shakes our view of humanity’s goodness.
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