Throughout his life he remained barely literate, yet displayed an aptitude for woodwork and artwork. Ĭlassmates recall Fred as scruffy, dim, lethargic, and regularly in trouble. The necessity of working to earn a living and to survive instilled a strong work ethic in Fred, who also developed a lifelong habit of petty theft. The West children were expected to perform assigned chores and all six did seasonal work, the three girls picking hops and strawberries, the three boys harvesting wheat and hunting rabbits. He was seen as a mother's boy and relied mostly on his siblings for companionship. By 1951 Fred's mother had given birth to eight children, six of whom survived Fred was always his mother's favourite. The cottage had no electricity and was heated by a log fire. In 1946 the family moved to Moorcourt Cottage, a semi-detached building adjacent to Moorcourt Farm, on the outskirts of Much Marcle, where Fred's father worked as a milking herdsman and harvest hand. Moorcourt Farm, Much Marcle, where West lived, in Moorcourt Cottage, 1946–1961 Fred was from a poor family of farm workers, close-knit and mutually protective his father was a disciplinarian and his mother overprotective. In November 1995, Rose was convicted of ten murders and sentenced to ten life terms with a whole life order.įrederick Walter Stephen West was born on 29 September 1941, at Bickerton Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, the first surviving child of Walter Stephen West (1914–1992) and Daisy Hannah Hill (1922–1968). The couple were arrested and charged in 1994.įred fatally asphyxiated himself while detained on remand at HM Prison Birmingham on 1 January 1995, at which time he and Rose were jointly charged with nine murders, and he with three further murders. Fred is known to have committed at least two murders on his own Rose is known to have murdered Fred's stepdaughter, Charmaine.
At least eight of these murders involved the Wests' sexual gratification and included rape, bondage, torture, and mutilation the victims' dismembered bodies were typically buried in the cellar or garden of the West residence in Gloucester, which became known as the "House of Horrors".
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Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 19 in Gloucestershire, the majority with his second wife, Rose West.Īll the victims were young women.
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