Their sordid tale is one that has captivated people for decades, and now, with Howard Sounes’s book ‘Fred and Rose: The Full Story’, their story has been brought to life in an extraordinary way.

The police who eventually collared the West do not get as much “page” time as the couple or even the victims. Drawing on more than 100 hours of taped confessions and on his own handwritten autobiography whilst in jail, an account of the life of Frederick West, Britain's most notorious mass murderer, which also provides insight into the nature of pure evil.Three months later, the couple vacated the Cheltenham flat and relocated to the ground floor flat of a two-story house in Midland Road, Gloucester. She is believed to have been murdered by strangulation, possibly in the back seat of Fred's Ford Popular and likely while intoxicated. Such as, why were finger and toe bones missing, are there more victims and if so where are they buried? One of the more baffling aspects to this story is that after the Wests had gotten off very lightly for kidnapping, raping and nearly killing one young woman in the area, not a single thought or visit seems to have been given by the same police force that maybe the Wests might at least be worth a visit after a growing number of young women from a similar background had suddenly gone missing?

On these occasions when Fred had no woman to supervise and care for the girls, he temporarily placed them in the care of Gloucestershire social services.By 1977, Rose's father had come to tolerate his daughter's marriage, and to develop a grudging respect for Fred.

Charting the couple’s lives from childhood to their arrest, the author doesn’t shy away from the horrific details of their crimes – details that some readers will find disturbing. She slept with her 10 year-old brother and at thirteen, she molested him, and incest with her father was also likely.Much of Fred's family effectively disowned him, [9] his mother banished him from the household, and he moved into the Much Marcle house of his aunt Violet. Her mother underwent shock treatment when pregnant with Rose, which also probably had a bearing on her development. Now, for the first tme, the full story of Frederick West's extraordinary life and death can be told, the secrets of his appalling crimes revealed.

As he served this six-and-a-half-month sentence, Rose, having just turned 17, looked after the three girls, with Charmaine and Anna Marie being told to refer to Rose as their mother. A lot of people will know the story I have read the surviving daughter Ann Marie's book but there was still a lot I did not know about this couple great book. The finish is somewhat surprising and I feel the need for a karmic bath after reading this thoroughly unpleasant story. The crucial investigation would not begin until Feb 1994 and that was when the police started to dig up the patio.This couple were definantly out of touch with reality and living in some fantasy world full of sadomasochism. I would have very easily been able to listen to it in one sitting, but that is just not possible for me to do, but every spear minute I had I was listeing to it.