Philpott 'joked about fatal blaze night', court told

A father accused of killing his six children in a house fire joked about the night of the fatal blaze to a police officer just a week later, a court has heard.

Pc Joanne Halford told Nottingham Crown Court that Michael Philpott, 56, seemed “jovial” when she spoke to him at Royal Derby Hospital in the early hours of May 18.