WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Serial killer Rose West was convicted of ten murders back in 1995 and she is one of only four women in Britian to be given a whole life order
New details about how notorious serial killer Rose West spends her days in prison has been revealed.
West, now 71, raped, tortured and killed at least 12 women and girls with husband Fred at their Gloucester home of horrors between them, from 1967 to 1987. Their horrifying crimes didn’t come to light untill 1992 when daughter Louise, then just 13, accused Fred of rape and Rose of cruelty. That case collapsed after eldest daughter Anne Marie — abused from age eight — refused to testify, but what the children told police raised red flags.
Officers launched a huge investigation after learning the kids were constantly threatened with being buried “under the patio like their sister Heather”, who had vanished five years earlier. The full horror was soon uncovered, their youngest victim was Rose’s stepdaughter Charmaine, just eight, and the eldest was Fred’s ex-wife Catherine ‘Reno’ Costello, 27.
In 1995, Rose West received a whole life order, for life, meaning she will die behind bars after police discovered a series of mutilated bodies buried in the garden, beneath a patio and even in a sex dungeon cellar. Fred never stood trial for the horror he helped unleash. He took his own life while on remand in HMP Birmingham agd 53.
Since she abandoned her attempts to appeal her conviction in 2001, she is understood to be resigned to dying in prison, where sh has already spent nearly 30 years. Shehas regular transfers due to threats of violence from other inmates. She has been at New Hall for six years and enjoys a cushy life. But insiders said she sometimes lashes out at staff if she does not get her own way.
A source told The Sun: “She’s in a disabled room now because she can barely walk. She never really leaves the wing she’s held on and is escorted all the time by prison officers if she goes anywhere. Sometimes she sits in the communal areas on her own.
“No one talks to her because everyone knows who she is and what she did, even if she has changed her name. When I was there, she tried to make friends with the other women and gave them gifts, like vapes, but she was rejected. She likes to watch nature documentaries on the TV in her cell, especially ones about birds.”
In the hope of distancing herself from her evil crimes, West reportedly paid £36 to change her name to Jennifer Jones. It’s understood she changed her name by deed poll in December last year and told friends it’s her way of moving on. However, everyone knows her real identity at the women-only HMP New Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
Some inmates spurn her attempts at friendship, and she often eats tomato soup in her cell alone for breakfast, before spending most of her time in her cell knitting and talking to the TV, because she can barely walk.
West is now being held in a special unit at New Hall known as Rivendell House, where 30 prisoners each have an en-suite cell and are allocated a laptop which they can use to order food from. The communal areas are also said to be “more inviting” than other blocks in the prison, according to inspection reports.
Netflix released a new documentary titled Fred and Rose West A British Horror Story earlier this month. It delves into the nightmarish deeds of the Wests from their unassuming home in Gloucester during the ’80s and ’90s.
The three-part series, which utilises over 50 hours of previously unseen and unheard police interview tapes from 107 interrogations, promises to cast new light on the murders of at least 12 women by Fred and Rose West.