Long jail terms for couple who killed 6 children

There was the rare sound of applause in court — coming from Mick Philpotts’s own family members — as the judge finished sentencing.

“Die, Mick, die,” one shouted, while another called out: “Your own babies.”

In response, Philpott, 56, smiled and made an obscene gesture as he was led from the dock to begin his life sentence for killing six of his children in a plot to torch their family home that went disastrously wrong.