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.
25 years ago the chance remark of a child taken into care led to one of the biggest murder investigations in British history. Gloucestershire police began digging up the garden of the home of Fred and Rosemary West. What they found would uncover the depraved and shocking secrets that had bound the Wests together for years. Fred and Rose West: The Real Story with Trevor McDonald, ITV 2019
They were also sexually abusing their children. ibid.
West had now admitted to eleven murders: nine hidden away in the garden and cellar of Cromwell Street and two others buried elsewhere. He also divulged the location of a twelfth body. ibid.
They started to take in lodgers. ibid.
Myra Hindley and Rose West are Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Between 1963-1965 Myra Hindley was involved in the murder of five children and teenagers. Three decades later, Rose West was jailed for her part in the killing of ten women and girls. They were the first two women in Britain to be given whole-life sentences. What happened to Rose West and Myra Hindley in prison is an extraordinary and untold story. Rose West & Myra Hindley: The Untold Story with Trevor McDonald, ITV 2020
Myra Hindley had been in prison for nearly 30 years when Rose West arrived in Durham. They met almost at once. ibid.
In the heart of Gloucester one three-storey terraced home has become the focal point of the city’s biggest criminal investigation. The Killer in My Family s1e1: Fred West, Quest Red 2019
In February 1994 the crimes of the prolific serial killers Fred and Rose West began to be uncovered. ibid.
‘As a man Fred had an insatiable sex drive.’ ibid. Emma Kenny, psychologist
Anna McFall [mistress]: Murdered 1967 … Rena West [wife] leaves Fred 1969 … Charmaine West [daughter] murdered 1971 [aged 8]… Shirley Robinson [18] … Shirley Hubbard [15] … Rena West murdered [27] … Anne McFall murdered [18] … Lucy Partinton [21] … Therese Siegenthaler [21] … Juanita Mott [18] … Lynda Gouch [19] … Heather West [daughter, 16] … Twelve victims across three locations. ibid. captions
‘Rose was 15 at the time and they met at the bus station.’ ibid. lady
‘Both Rose and Fred enjoyed sexual sadism and they found a perfect ally in each other.’ ibid. Emma Kenny
In a maximum security prison cell in Yorkshire a woman who waged a murderous campaign over two decades will see the end of her days. Rose West and her husband Fred formed one of the most infamous serial killing couples in British criminal history. Between them they claimed the lives of at least twelve young women, including two of their own children. Their home on Cromwell Street, Gloucester, was dubbed the house of horrors by the tabloids after the discovery of bodies buried in the cellar and garden. Making a Monster s1e1: Rose West: Matriarch of Cromwell Street, CI 2020
Britain’s worst serial killing couple. ibid.
Rose West was born in Devon in 1953, the fifth of seven children. When Rose’s parents decided to separate, she chose to stay with her mother. Only to come home one day to find her mother disappeared. ibid.
In 1970, aged just 16, Rose fell pregnant by Fred: he set them up in a family home. ibid.
Rose no longer saw the victims as human beings, they were sex objects to be played with and discarded at will. ibid.
The murder that would ultimately bring the Wests’ reign of terror to an end was that of their own daughter Heather. ibid.