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Benefits dad to get £300K home for 18 kids by 10 different women | Daily Star DETERMINED: Peter Rolfe in current home with five of his children, two grandkids and their father Daniel [JENNIFER BURTON]

And now the council is about to cave in after a losing a legal battle and buy him a property with taxpayers’ cash.

Jobless Peter Rolfe, 64, who lives on benefits, argued that officials have a “duty of care” to upgrade his four- bedroom property.

He demanded a £300,000 home after 20 years on welfare, saying he was forced to quit work to look after his offspring.

He said: “They are making out I’m a bum. Why does it matter that I’m on benefits?

“They are discriminating against me and the kids. The council has a duty of care to make sure we have a decent place to live.

“They have abused my human rights. They are treating me and my children like second-class citizens.”

Rolfe complained his home in Newport, Isle of Wight, was too cramped for the five kids and two grandchildren living there full-time.

Peter Rolfe, 64

He shares it with son Peter, 19, daughters Rose Anne, 18, Marie Anne, 15, Carrie Anne, 14, Leeanne, 17, and her one-year-old twins Lexi and Courtney.

The single dad moaned that one room is covered in mould and the fourth bedroom is so small it “may as well be a cabinet”.

He said living conditions were even more desperate at the weekends when four of his other kids visited and had to sleep in the living room.

The dad of Leanne’s twins, Daniel Beck, 24, also stays four nights a week to help take care of his daughters.

None of the children of working age have jobs and they all rely on state handouts, including housing benefit and child tax credits.

Rolfe said: “They are all in further education so they can get some qualifications and get good jobs.

“I have 18 children with about 10 women.

“I made some mistakes when I was younger but now I’ll do anything to make my kids happy.”

Rolfe, who has no contact with his nine other children, took his demand for a bigger home to the Local Government Ombudsman.

The watchdog sided with him, saying that he had suffered a “serious injustice” and awarded him £1,000 compensation.

But Isle of Wight Council refused to hand over more than £250.

Councillor Gordon Kendall, the ­authority’s cabinet member for housing, said Rolfe was “operating the system to his own advantage”. ­Councillors now feel they have no choice but to buy a new house for the family, or knock two smaller homes together.

Last night pressure group the Taxpayers’ Alliance blasted the plans as outrageous and insulting to hard-working Brits.

Chief executive Jonathan Isaby said: “Handing over a new a property or knocking two together to make a custom-made house for this family at taxpayers’ expense would be outrageous.

“It’s damning that our broken ­welfare system results in ordinary taxpayers subsidising such a feckless lifestyle for two decades.

“Peter Rolfe already has a large home at taxpayers’ expense and the idea that it is his human right to be given a larger one is insulting to all those who are struggling to afford their own homes.”