I thought the world of Heather. Fred West
There’s a fucking lot more. Fred West to defence team
I wish to admit to a further (approx) [sic] nine killings. ibid. Fred West’s letter to defence team
Fred could feel where the bodies were. They were coming up out of the ground at him as though they were at a party ... They were coming at him thick and fast. Fred’s solicitor
Detectives and forensic specialists began digging in the back garden of a house in Cromwell Street in Gloucester City Centre ... Police arrested the girl’s parents and they are being questioned about Heather’s disappearance. News report 25th February 1994
Police searching for a girl who went missing eight years ago are this evening digging up a garden in Gloucester. It’s understood the sixteen-year-old’s disappearance had never been reported. ITV News at Ten
Rose West has been sentenced to Life imprisonment after being found guilty on all ten counts of murder. ITV News at Ten
A serial killer speaks from beyond the grave. These previously unseen police interviews of Fred West offer an insight of the dark mind of a mass murderer. The Unseen Fred West Confessions, Channel 5 2014
Although West confessed to killing Heather, he denied it was murder but an accident. ibid.
Rose West – wife, mother, serial killer. Her terrible crimes are often overshadowed by her murderous husband Fred. But exactly what role did she play in their twisted relationship? Crimes that Shook Britain s5e3: Rose West, CI 2014
As well as the violence at home, young Rose was also the subject of sexual abuse. ibid.
Fred West’s world was in fact dominated by sex. He harboured an interest in pornography, prostitution and sadism. ibid.
Behind the curtains of Cromwell Street hid a world of torture and murder. ibid.
Fred West was interviewed 151 times in the course of the investigation. ibid.
25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester: Home to Fred and Rose West ... The scene of some of the most horrific crimes in British history. Murder UK with Martin Kemp, ID 2014
The most sinister location in the house would prove to be the cellar. ibid.
How could Rose West not know about the murders? ibid.
Fred took the truth with him to the grave. ibid.
The city of Gloucester is home to the most notorious address in Britain. Today Rosemary West was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of ten young women and children including her own daughter Heather. Public Eye Special: The Cromwell Street Murders, BBC 1995
They’d been tortured before death sometimes for days. ibid.
How could so many disappear without question? ibid.
Over the years this would be a regular pattern: at the last moment the accuser would back down because of threats … Fred West would give them the slip. ibid.
No-one was to check on the whereabouts of Fred’s first wife Rena whose remains were found at Much Marcle. ibid.
By 1972 three lives have been taken but the real frenzy of sexual attacks and killings was to begin when they moved a few hundreds yards away to Cromwell Street. ibid.
In 1972 the Wests committed a serious sexual assault that nearly gave them away: they abducted and violently abused a 17-year-old-girl. ibid.
Lack of communication between agencies. ibid.
Fred West was well known to the police. ibid.
25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester has become one of the most infamous addresses in Britain. For 20 years Fred and Rose West quenched their appetite for sex and murder inside this house of unimaginable horror. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s1e4: Fred & Rose West, Pick 2017
For two decades they sexually abused, tortured and murdered nine women including their own daughter in their house of horrors; and between them were responsible for another three victims buried around Gloucester. ibid.
Fred’ and Rose’s traumatic childhoods had a lasting effect on the couple and their twisted approach to family life together. ibid.
Other women who had encountered the Wests came forward. ibid.
‘I really believe she is innocent.’ Inside Story: Inside 25 Cromwell Street, Mae, BBC 1995
Stephen and Mae’s father Fred West faced 12 charges of murder. He hanged himself on New Year’s Day 1995 before he could be tried. Their mother Rose was tried and convicted of 10 of the murders. She will spend the rest of her life in jail. The remains of 9 of the victims were found here at the family home. This basement concealed the remains of 5 young women. They had been sexually tortured and abused before and after they were killed. ibid. captions
‘Sex was so easy for them and open.’ ibid. Mae
‘If she was hitting one of us, she used to do us all.’ ibid.
It’s 20 years since the House of Horrors began to give up its buried secrets. When the grim truth about life inside 25 Cromwell Street started to unravel. And this happy smiling couple – Fred and Rose West – were revealed as the most prolific and depraved sex killers in British criminal history. But today questions remain, not least how many others did they kill? Fred and Rose: The Unanswered Questions, Sky Living 2018
The police investigation identified the remains of 12 victims … Almost all the victims had been gagged and sexually tortured before their bodies were dismembered. ibid.
More evidence of Fred West’s Scottish crime links emerged. ibid.
All the evidence points to Fred’s killing career starting years before he met Rose. ibid.
Rose worked as a prostitute from home. ibid.
Fred and Rose West are Britain’s most prolific and sadistic serial killing couple. How did an ordinary family home in Gloucester become a sordid den of sex, vice and murder. A place of orgies and prostitution converted into a torture chamber? Fred and Rose West: The One that Got Away aka Fred & Rose: House of Horrors, Channel 5 2019
While Fred was in prison, the level of abuse suffered by Charmaine increased. ibid.
Rose had killed Charmaine on her own. ibid.
Many of the Wests’ victims were tortured. ibid.