Child killer Mick Philpott’s surviving son says he used to be abused by stepmum at 14

Because the funeral cortège for his six brothers and sisters passed the traces of mourners, Mikey Philpott cleave a forlorn figure.

Few can neglect the horse-drawn ­procession carrying the coffins of the adolescence whose lives were stolen by their very possess individuals.

Mettlesome Mikey, 14, used to be a pall bearer ­carrying his 10-year-conventional sister Jade’s white, princess-embellished coffin.

To the exterior world he used to be the “fortunate one”.

He had been staying with godparents the evening dad Mick and stepmum Mairead killed his siblings in a fireplace at their dwelling.

However Mikey is a lot from fortunate.

On top of the disaster for his brothers and sisters, he says he’s living with a awful secret that’s tearing him aside.

In essentially the most modern twist within the horrifying narrative, Mikey claims he used to be sexually abused by Mairead – who enjoyed ­sordid ­threesomes, voyeurism and ­ordinary “dogging” sessions with Mick.

He said they first had intercourse when Mairead confided in him that she’d had an ­­abortion after getting pregnant by any person different than Mick.

Mikey said: “I honest sat on the bed ­perplexed and quite teary.

“I didn’t ticket what Mairead used to be announcing. I was quiet in my college uniform. She came visiting and place her arm round me to comfort me.

“Then she starting kissing me, then one thing ended in 1 other.

“We had intercourse on the bed. I knew what used to be taking place used to be unsuitable. I knew she used to be the mum of my siblings but she used to be never a mother figure to me. I was a 14-year-conventional boy, my hormones took over.

“After that we had intercourse Eleven or 12 instances, consistently within the house, when my dad used to be out and the adolescence were in college. I’d most incessantly skive off college to be with her.”

Memories of the sordid sessions within the months sooner than the tragic fireplace quiet hang-out Mikey, who’s now 20.

He said: “It’s enjoy some awful secret gnawing away at me. I feel elephantine of disgrace. Every time I take into myth what ­took living I feel dirty and disgusted.

“It’s very most involving after I undercover agent motivate that I realise I was a prone teen procuring for affection and he or she used to be a grown girl who manipulated me.

“I honest desire it all to head away – along with the reminiscence of intercourse with Mairead.”

Mikey, who has waived his correct to anonymity, said he has lastly determined to be in contact out to ­rubbish the conclusion that Mairead’s very most involving crime used to be to enable herself to be controlled by Mick, Sixty one.

He insisted he used to be now not desirous to excuse his father’s actions but wished to characterize individuals what Mairead used to be in actuality enjoy.

He said: “She’s now not the harmless individuals mediate she is.”

Crippled by social fright, Mikey has moved from Derby and intensely infrequently leaves the flat he shares with his 20-year-conventional female friend in Lincolnshire.

He is aware of his claims will construct nothing to ease that challenge. He said: “I’m terrorized everyone will know who I am. What will they mediate now?

“I will be able to’t consult with anybody I know motivate in Derby either because I’ve had loss of life threats. Strangers bear threatened to destroy me ­online because I chose to increase my dad.”

The elephantine wretchedness of intercourse-crazed, dad-of-17 Philpott’s depravity and violent past used to be laid naked as he stood trial at Nottingham Crown Court docket in 2013.

The controlling monster led Mairead, now 36, and pal Paul Mosely in a characterize to rep a bigger council rental by burning down the household dwelling in Derby in Might possibly 2012 and looking out for to physique an ex-lover.

However the twisted realizing went horribly unsuitable and Mikey’s siblings – Jade, ten, John, 9, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and 5-year-conventional Jayden – all perished within the fireplace. Duwayne, Thirteen, died later in health facility. The three defendants were all found guilty of manslaughter.

Philpott used to be jailed for life with a ­minimal of 15 years. Mairead and Mosely were told they would abet 1/2 of their 17-year sentence.

Mikey hadn’t seen dad Mick for nearly six years when he moved in with him in January 2011 after falling out with his accurate mum, Heather Kehoe.

A alarmed, introverted child, who looked younger than his years, Mikey used to be peaceable to the never-ending fights and dramas that prompted havoc in his household.

So when Mairead turned to the faded, ginger-haired boy for what he seen as comfort, he claims he used to be taken into her possess twisted world in a characterize to place her.

Mikey turned a shoulder for his stepmum to shout on.

He said: “Mairead and Dad had a raging row because he realized she’d had an ­abortion. I stuck up for her announcing it used to be her physique and her decision and Dad stormed out the dwelling in a depraved mood and I ran upstairs to my bed room.”

He said: “Mairead came up to undercover agent me and said I must apologise to Dad. I asked her why and he or she said ‘because I don’t mediate the baby used to be his’.”

Mikey is slowly coming to terms with the loss of life of his siblings but blames himself for now not announcing no to Mairead.

He said: “I liked her and I felt sorry for the sort Dad treated her. Because the eldest I’d construct what I may presumably perchance to reduction her with the younger adolescence.”

“I knew she used to be the mum of my siblings but she wasn’t in actuality enjoy a mum to me – extra enjoy a pal. She used to be a absorbing character in actuality.

“She is also restful and withdrawn one minute and in actuality loud and chatty the following but I conception she used to be in actuality tremendous.”

Though a child beneath sixteen can not legally consent to intercourse, Mikey said: “I didn’t mediate myself as a child after I was 14 as I’d been through so unparalleled in my life already, but after I undercover agent motivate I mediate I conception I knew all the pieces, but in actuality knew nothing.

“I was a 14-year-conventional having intercourse with an older girl – it is intended to be some plan of ­delusion, correct? I liked her and I teach I had quite of a teenage crush on her. I teach I’m blended up about it all.”

He used to be too embarrassed to characterize police about the abuse and added: “What bid would it now not construct?

“Mairead already has her punishment. Mairead is already in reformatory. It wouldn’t place anything.

“I’m very most involving telling this fragment of my narrative now because I’m bored to loss of life with her being seen as being led off beam by my dad when she is manipulative and inappropriate.”

Mikey believes his dad’s claims that he has proof which is able to snarl his innocence.

It’s little shock that Mikey clings on to Mick’s narrative.

He now not has contact with his accurate mum or different siblings.

Mikey’s unconventional childhood has left him a prone younger man, ­imprisoned by his recollections and terrorized by the loss of life of his siblings.