These are the shocking CCTV pictures that helped bring evil dad Mick Philpott to justice, the Sunday People reports.
They show Philpott laughing and crooning Elvis Presleyâs hit Suspicious Minds with the damning line âWeâre caught in a trapâ â just days after he killed six of his kids in a house fire.
Pub customers watched in astonishment as the dad of 17 â dressed Blues Brothers-style in black trilby and sunglasses â picked up a microphone and belted out the karaoke track at The Navigation Inn in Derby.
His killer wife Mairead, also in a trilby, can be seen giggling as she sits on his knee before joining him in a duet.
Mick and Mairead sat together at the top of the picture
The CCTV footage, obtained exclusively by the Sunday People, provided police with one of the final pieces of the jigsaw they needed to charge him with the blaze deaths.
Police collected the film on May 30 last year, less than nine hours before charging Philpott, 56, and his wife Mairead, 32.
Philpott was jailed last week for life for manslaughter while Mairead got 17 years along with pal Paul Mosley, 46.
The couple had played the part of devastated victims, wiping away crocodile tears and feigning grief in front of the media just days after a blaze ripped through the family semi in Derby on May 11.
Philpott claimed the fire had been instigated by an arsonist.
Crocodile tears: Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead
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But on the evening of May 26 â just 15 days after the devastating house fire he had started deliberately with petrol â Philpott let his facade slip.
The pair sauntered into the pub at around 4.30pm, happily downing vodka shots and Jack Daniels and Coke before getting on the karaoke to sing the 1975 Elvis classic.
The pair were unaware the pubâs CCTV cameras were picking up the entire brazen performance â turning the policeâs murder investigations firmly on them.
The song Suspicious Minds is about a coupleâs mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship, and the need to overcome their problems.
Philpott sang the lyrics: âWeâre caught in a trap, I canât walk out, because I love you too much baby.â
CCTV of Mick Philpott in a pub beer garden
Navigation Inn landlady Jeanette Doherty told the Sunday People: âThe two of them were up dancing and having a good time.
âShe was round the pool table grinding up against young lads.
âShe was drinking Bacardi and JD as well as Malibu and Coke. He was drinking JD and vodka.
âIt was bizarre behaviour. Itâs hard to imagine what you would do, but it wouldnât be going out drinking and doing karaoke.
âWe had a party in celebrating a First Holy Communion. There were a lot of kids there.
âAt first people were just shocked that Mick and Mairead were even there. You donât expect to see a couple whose six children have just died to be out partying.
âThey were laughing and joking â it was just unbelievable. I donât know how they could live day to day knowing they had caused their six kids to die, let alone go out enjoying themselves.â
Landlord Russell Doherty said: âI came in just after he had left.
âEveryone was saying to me âGuess who was just in here!â
âHe was the most infamous man in Derby at the time. He was well-known even before the fire.
âThere was a guy up singing Suspicious Minds and then Mick Philpott picked up the mike.
âHe also sang My Boy by Elvis. People just couldnât believe it. It was the talk of the pub for days afterwards.
Shocking CCTV image of Mick Philpott singing in a pub days after killing six of his children
âIt made people think something strange was going on and there was something not quite right.â
Philpottâs former pal Michael Garland, who was in the pub on the night, said: âIâve turned to the lad thatâs singing and asked him to stop because of the kids being caught in that fire in the trap.
âAnd as Iâve turned to say that, Mick has come running past me and grabbed a microphone and started singing âIâm caught in a trap!â
âWhen heâd finished I said âMick you better go because people arenât happy with youâ.â
After their callous show they went to the beer garden but their appalling behaviour led to them being forced to leave the pub shortly before 8pm that night.
Fellow drinkers were so suspicious they contacted the police.