PC Croxall gives evidence in Philpott trial

PC Deborah Croxall tells a jury that she provided Mick Philpott with a blanket outside the Royal Derby Hospital as he was 'shivering'.PC Croxall told the court that the scene at the hospital was 'mayhem'.

She later drove Mick Philpott, his wife Mairead, and Mairead's mother Vera Duffy to Birmingham Children's hospital.

Under cross-examination PC Croxall also told the jury that while she was in the hospital's intensive care unit in Birmingham Mairead Philpott was looking at photos of her children on her mobile phone.

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Mairead Philpott appeal

Derbyshire Police refuse to comment on reports that Mairead Philpott will appeal her 17 year sentence for the deaths of her six children in a house fire in Derby.