Fred & Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

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We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. A childhood friend of Charmaine's named Tracey Giles, who had lived in the upper flat of 25 Midland Road, would later recollect an incident in which she had entered the Wests' flat, unannounced, only to see Charmaine, naked and standing upon a chair, gagged and with her hands bound behind her back with a belt, as Rose stood alongside the child with a large wooden spoon in her hand. When Owens began to protest, Fred stopped the car, referred to Owens as a "bitch", [107] and punched her into unconsciousness before he and Rose bound and gagged her with a scarf and duct tape.

Mae also puts to bed the lie that the West children knew no better than the way they were bought up. To facilitate the Wests' purchasing the property from the council, many of the upper floor rooms were initially converted into bedsits to supplement the household income.Geoffery Wansell has had unparalleled access to West's own explanations of his actions, including more than 150 hours of tape recordings West made. This looked at the effect that sitting in on the interviews between Fred West and the police had on the woman designated his ‘appropriate adult.

While they may have sentimental value, bibles passed down through the family are not often worth a lot of money. Probably because a)it was over wordy, so I skim read bits of it only to find I'd missed something and b)some of it was so sick and beyond comprehension that I had to read it twice for it to sink in. Fred later admitted to having engaged in numerous affairs in the early years of his marriage, and fathered one illegitimate child with a woman from the Gorbals. Owens' mother immediately reported her daughter's ordeal to the police, and the Wests were arrested and charged with assault, indecent assault, actual bodily harm, and rape.The room included a private bar, and a red light outside the door warned when Rose was not to be disturbed. Fred later claimed that he had been sexually abused by his mother at age 12, that he had engaged in acts of bestiality in his early teens, and that his belief that incest was normal stemmed from his father's incest with Fred's sisters.