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On March the 7th 1999, Lee Day, his mother Sandra, his grandmother Kathleen, Lee's three-year-old twins, Maddison and Rhiannon, his two-year-old son, Reece, and Lee's girlfriend, Yvonne Culverhouse, all lost their lives.
They were all killed when Richard Fielding set fire to their home in Chingford, north London.
Fielding poured petrol through the letterbox of a house when everyone inside was asleep, set fire to that petrol, and four generations of the Day family were incinerated.
Fielding believed that Lee Day was "out to get him" and had conspired to prevent him becoming:
(a) "a famous DJ" and (b) "a famous male model". (Fielding is homosexual)
Thus far Fielding has not shown any remorse for his crime. Indeed, Detective Chief Inspector Ship, who was in charge of the investigation, said:
"He is now infamous as opposed to famous and there is some evidence he is enjoying that notoriety".
In court, the jury heard how, on the 6th of March, after he had argued with his mother over beer money, Fielding cycled to a petrol station and bought five litres of petrol. When a customer asked him if he had broken down he replied
"No, I'm going to do a house".
He cycled to the Day house, arriving at about 12.30am, and emptied the petrol through the letter box of the house. He, then, set it alight.
When fire-fighters finally entered the property they found the bodies of Lee and Sandra Day wrapped, protectively, around their three children.
After his arrest Fielding had boasted to police:
"You will not prove murder, I will get off with arson or criminal damage". Later he said:
"I am not going down for murder, it is manslaughter, offer me that and I'll take it".
In another interview he said:
"It was like a game of knock down ginger, with a bit more ginger".
Fielding complained his imprisonment meant he would miss his holiday to Kenya from which he claimed he would have returned "a walking sex machine and a DJ". He even blamed his mother saying:
"Maybe if she had given me the money it would never have happened".
The Daily Telegraph of the 16th of May, 2000, reported thus:
"The court heard that Fielding, a 'sexually confused' loner, was a hyperactive child, so disruptive at school he was expelled at 12".
Sounds like the kind of kid that Miss used to spend all her time fussing over and coddling.
The Telegraph continued:
"He claimed to have started sniffing glue at nine and later abused a variety of drugs including LSD. He has convictions for indecently assaulting a male, theft and assault.
He believed people were laughing at him behind his back and kept an iron bar, an axe and a hammer by his bed and a ceremonial sword by the stairs because, he told his mother, people wanted to kill him. He told doctors he went to pubs and took drugs until he 'felt paranoid and more of a woman'.
Doctors said his psychosis was characterised by his inability to accept the consequences of his actions, his lack of concern and warmth for others and his manipulative manner. He showed no remorse. Fielding was preoccupied with the fit of his shirt and the colour of his socks because of publicity surrounding the case. He was 'grossly out of touch with reality'".
Defending Fielding, Kuldip Singh said he was so ill he could not be held responsible for his actions.
Of course not Kuldip, he's a black puff, for goodness sake, such lovely, fluffy types can't be responsible for their actions!
Unfortunately for the rest of us, the prosecution concurred with Kuldip Singh's summary of his client's state of health and waived the murder charges, accepting the lesser charge of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Fielding was, subsequently, sentenced to serve an indefinite period in Rampton secure hospital.
Which means he will be out as soon as some bleeding-heart psychiatrist says he's sane enough to live alongside the rest of us.
"As long as he takes his medicine".
Here's a photo of a loony-tune you've never heard of:
Here are those the loony killed:
   
  
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