escaped the blaze without serious injury, but her son Duwayne was left fighting for his life in a Birmingham hospital. But the couple made the decision for medics to switch off his life support machine. Tribute: A police officer lays candles in tribute to the victims. They have called for the public to come forward with information TV appearance: Michael Philpott's mistress Lisa Willis, who left just before the tragedy, has previously appeared with his wife Mairead on The Jeremy Kyle Show. Miss Willis is currently being offered support by police officers The devastated couple made a heart-rending plea for answers to their local priest Father Alan Burbidge, 70, from Duwayne's bedside, asking: 'Why us?' Fr Burbidge told the Sunday Express: 'They were absolutely devastated and kept crying and asking, "why us?" They said nothing made sense and that they would never get over it.' The former baker is said to have made a valiant attempt to rescue his children, who were found by firemen still in their beds. The family hit the headlines six years ago when it emerged Mr Philpott shared his cramped council home with his wife and mistress and his ten children by both women -- and that both were pregnant by him again. Mrs Philpott and Miss Willis later gave birth to a boy and girl respectively within a month of each other. Complaint: Mr Philpott had previously demanded a bigger council house Tragedy: The scene in Victory Road, Allenton, Derby, where five children died