As the Philpotts and Paul Mosley were jailed on Thursday, their neighbours in Allenton followed proceedings closely. Sophie Evans and Isaac Crowson spoke to the community about the sentences.
"IS that what those six children are worth – little over a year each?"
That was the reaction of Mick Philpott's former friend and neighbour, Adam Taylor, when he learned that Mairead had been jailed for 17 years.
Mr Taylor lives four doors down from 18 Victory Road and gave evidence during the trial of the Philpotts and Paul Mosley after initially being arrested on suspicion of starting the fire himself.
On Thursday, he said he thought the sentences handed to the trio – of life with a minimum term of 15 years for Philpott, and 17 years each for Mairead and Mosley – were not long enough.
"I hate Mick for what he's done, especially for dragging me and my family into the whole thing," said Mr Taylor. "I hope he dies in jail, to be honest. I hope he never gets out.
"I'm disgusted that the sentences are so short. Mairead and Mosley will only serve eight-and-a-half years of their sentence and then they'll be out.
"Is that what those six children are worth – little over a year each?
"Mick will never get out. To be granted parole, you have to show remorse and be sorry for what you have done. Mick isn't sorry at all and he won't be sorry in 15 years' time. He won't change.
"Life should mean life, so he should never get out. If you take a life away, you should lose everything that made your life."
Mr Taylor and his girlfriend, Vicky Ferguson, were initially accused of starting the fire after Philpott pointed the finger at them.
The 34-year-old said he hoped the community in Allenton could now start to move on from the tragedy.
He said: "This is the last thing now and we will all try to move on together. At least for the next eight years, until the two get out.
"It's rocked and changed the whole community and we want to put it behind us now."
Miss Ferguson, 29, said she had known Mairead since she was 12 years old, when their mothers ran a play scheme together in Allenton.
She said: "I wasn't around when Mairead got together with Mick. And I didn't even know she lived on Victory Road until I saw her going past our house not long after we moved in.
"We got talking again after that, about our children. They all played together. We got to know Mick and Lisa then, from about 2010.
"I don't know how people can feel sorry for her. She's a mother, she should always put her children first, always."
Miss Ferguson said they wanted to rebuild their lives.
She said: "I'm not sure how we're going to move on, but we're going to have to try.
"It's hard. Our daughter knew the children and she knows they're in the sky know. And she know when she sees the three on the television that they're bad people. It's hard to explain to her.
"We're going to just try to remember the children now, we can't forget about them. It's been a year-long nightmare."
Outside 18 Victory Road, more floral tributes were laid, along with soft toys and cards, paying tribute to the six Philpott children.
Media vans lined the streets, their cameras and microphones pointing at the Philpotts' boarded-up former home.
Another local resident, Michael McCredy, was also angry with the sentence and said he did not think it was a form of justice at all.
He said: "If they had robbed a train with the Queen's logo, they would have received a longer sentence.
"It's a travesty for these six angels who didn't deserve any of this., It's important not to forget them.
"I don't feel sorry for Mairead, because she's a mother and a mother should look after her children.
"We're a very close community and we will try our best to pull together and move on as best we can."
There was a sense that the whole community had breathed a sigh relief that the trial was over – even if they were not satisfied with the sentences.
The events of the night of May 11, 2012, rocked Allenton and those living there want to put it behind them, all the time remembering the victims of this tragedy.
Chris Owen said he had never met Mick Philpott but had known him by reputation. He said of the sentence: "It's not long enough for what happened to the children – the people in this community will agree with me.
"They should have had a life sentence for each child who died. That's what I think they all deserved."
He said the family had a lot more money than most of the residents of Allenton.
He said: "The difference is that we all work for a living and try to get on. He didn't.
"I think he was a man driven by greed. He just wanted more and more all of the time."
However, another neighbour of the Philpotts, who asked not to be named, said he was "delighted with the sentences".
He said: "It's brilliant. They all deserve everything thrown at them for what they did.
"I hope we never see any of them ever again in Allenton. We don't need them here."
A regular in The Navigation Inn, Philpott's local pub on London Road, said that he deserved life imprisonment.
She said: "It's a reasonable sentence for him. It seemed to all come down to him. He was the ringleader of it all.
"The wife and the friend's sentences seem reasonable too, as they were led along.
"I can't believe what's happened to those poor children. You can't comprehend it. It's the biggest tragedy that's hit Allenton and it will take the whole community a long time to get over it.
"But we will all get through it together and will remember those children who lost their lives."
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