A couple convicted of killing six of their children in a house fire in Derby are due to be sentenced later.
Mick and Mairead Philpott will reappear at Nottingham Crown Court where they were found guilty of six counts of manslaughter, along with their friend Paul Mosley, on Tuesday.
The maximum sentence for the crime is life imprisonment.
Mrs Justice Thirlwall was due to pass sentence on Wednesday but needed more time to consider mitigation.
The court was told that Philpott, 56, was jailed for seven years in 1978 for attempting to murder a previous girlfriend and given a concurrent five-year sentence for stabbing the woman's mother.
In 1991 he received a conditional discharge for assault after he head-butted a colleague
And in 2010 he was given a police caution after slapping Mairead and dragging her outside by her hair.
When Philpott set fire to his house in Victory Road, Derby, he was also facing trial over a road rage incident in which he punched a motorist in the face.
He had admitted common assault in relation to the incident but denied dangerous driving.
Rape allegationPolice have also confirmed that they intend to "thoroughly" investigate an allegation that Philpott raped a woman several years ago.
She made the allegation after the death of Philpott's children, but police decided to wait until the end of the manslaughter trial before investigating the complaint further.
On Tuesday the jury returned unanimous manslaughter verdicts on Philpott and Mosley, 46, while Mairead Philpott, 32, was convicted by a majority.
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.
