‘Super-fertile’ mother of six demands bigger council home

Maggie Flisher and husband Gavin say they have tried using condoms, contraceptive injections, implants and the pill since the birth of their first child eight years ago.

They are now asking Maidstone Council in Kent to move them from the cramped apartment they currently share to a four-bedroom property after having twins in April.

Mrs Flisher, 26, claims she cannot work because of depression and that her husband stays at home to help care for the children.

The couple dispute reports that they get £27,000 in benefits every year.

Their three eldest children – Lacieann, eight, Elektra, six, and Gavin Jr, five – sleep in the flat’s only bedroom.

Two-year-old Lilyrose sleeps with her mother alongside 
the cribs of three-month-old twins Martin James and Paris Nicola.

Mr Flisher, 30, sleeps wherever he can.

Mrs Flisher told ITV Daybreak that after her first child was conceived without contraception she tried a range of methods but doctors told her that she is “really fertile” and do not know what to do to stop her having children.

A Maidstone Council spokeswoman said: “This family became a four bedroom need in April this year and since that time, four properties with four bedrooms have become available through our partner housing associations, three of which this family could have bid on.

“The scheme relies on applicants bidding on their property of choice and last year 744 families were housed.”