Unfortunately Brian Philcox is not the first father to kill himself and his children. Since family court judges have developed the practice of deliberately separating fathers from their children, and since the government refuses to accept the presumption of equal parenting, there have been quite a number of cases.

Although we cannot condone a father killing his children, given the predicament he was in, we can understand why he did it. If you are 53, have spent your life buying a home and having a family, only to find that you are about to lose your home and only have occasional access to your children, it can drive you, in our female orientated society, to extreme action. A close friend of Mr Philcox described him as “A great dad”.

Mrs Philcox is almost certain to get the family house, but it’s going to be a very empty place for her. Has this been a step in the direction of “Saving Our Society”?

The real villains in this piece are our secret family court judges and the government. The following press release from Jimmy Deuchars of Grandparents Apart UK points out the failures in our system. Gordon Brown tells us that “he is listening”. Unfortunately, Mr Brown, “listening” is not enough. We need the listening to be followed by action.

“How many more fathers and children are to die in situations like this, as well as the  suicides by fathers and grandparents before the government allows equal parenting?

When a couple have children it is a union that no one should interfere in unless there is violence present. If there are problems, Family Information & Education Centres should be available for families to have access to mediation and counselling without the interference of the government’s administrative one-sided interpretation of family laws.

The government claims family law is fair and just but they are hiding their head in the sand ignoring what is happening, not wanting to admit their family law administration has failed them and is badly in need of retraining in the real best interests of the child. The government are so naïve to think these people could work without supervision. Human nature dictates people always go for the way that suits them best. 

Money is the root of family law problems. Lawyers fill their pockets on cases that are nearly always doomed to failure because of the system. Social services lie, cheat, invent meetings that have never taken place, snatch children and groom them for adoption to earn bonuses because it is less costly than working with families to help sort out their problems. At what cost, is it in human lives?

Every decent mother, father and grandparents are heartbroken at this latest tragedy which the government could avoid with equal parenting and not creating one-sided dictators over children who are even above the law itself.

The major children’s charities (Shame on them always asking for money when they will not do their job properly, that is work for the best interests of children) must shoulder a lot of the blame when they do not speak up to condemn the failure of our government’s handling of the family law administration fiasco. 

There must be an end to these terrible tragedies. The government must get off their high horses and listen to the people and not treat them as idiots like they do.

People are getting desperate and more and more demonstrations will be commonplace, and who can really blame them when the government refuses to listen?”