A couple who killed six children in a house fire in Derby will be sentenced for manslaughter at Nottingham Crown Court later.
Mick and Mairead Philpott, as well as their friend Paul Mosley, were convicted on Tuesday after an eight-week trial.
Derbyshire Police said it was the most upsetting case it had ever dealt with.
The couple's families released statements saying they thought "justice had been served".
'Violent and controlling'The jury at Nottingham Crown Court returned unanimous decisions on Mosley and Mick Philpott while Mairead Philpott was convicted by a majority.
Five of the Philpott's children died in their home in Victory Road and the sixth, from a previous relationship, died in hospital.
Jade Philpott, 10, John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the fire on 11 May 2012.
Mairead Philpott's son from a previous relationship, 13-year-old Duwayne, died later in hospital.
Jurors heard that Philpott had been violent and controlling towards his former live-in mistress, Lisa Willis.
When she left, taking her children, he became "obsessed with getting Lisa and the kids back".
The court heard Mick Philpott wanted to rescue the children from the fire, blame Miss Willis, and be hailed a hero - but the plan went wrong.
Professor David Cantor, an investigative psychologist at the University of Huddersfield, said: "He [Mick Philpott] lived in a world where he could get away with anything.
"He had these two women, he'd been on television, he was a bit of a sort of local celebrity almost, and he probably had a great confidence that he could get away with all sorts of things."
Mairead Philpott's sister, Jennifer Lobban, told the BBC's Panorama team she had been dominated by Mick Philpott.
She said: "She is a victim of Mick, but, at the end of the day, when it comes to your kids, she should have put them first."
Jurors were told that Philpott was to "act the hero and victim" and perhaps obtain a bigger house.
Father of 17Derby South MP Margaret Beckett once met him as his constituency member of Parliament when he was trying to get a bigger house because of the size of his family.
She said: "He was the sort of person who gives compassion and public support a bad name.
"I wished he lived in somebody else's constituency, if that doesn't sound a ridiculous thing to say. He wasn't somebody you wanted to be responsible for in any way."
During the trial the court heard details of how Philpott led an unconventional life at Victory Road.
He would share a bed with his wife and Miss Willis on alternate nights, and both women were said to have lived happily with one another and the situation for a decade.
But Miss Willis, 29, became unhappy with the domestic set-up three months before the fire and left with her five children, four of whom were fathered by Philpott.
The fatal blaze engulfed the house as the children slept just hours before Philpott, who was father to a total of 17 children by five different women, and Miss Willis were due to appear at a pre-scheduled court hearing to discuss residency of their children.
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