Rose West
English serial killer (born 1953)
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- Rosemary Pauline West ( née Letts ; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least ten young women between 1973 and 1987; she also murdered her eight-year-old stepdaughter, Charmaine, in 1971.
- Rose is currently an inmate at New Hall Prison in Flockton, West Yorkshire, after being convicted in 1995 and sentenced to ten life terms with a whole life order.
- Early life Rose West was born Rosemary Pauline Letts, on 29 November 1953, in Northam, Devon, to William Andrew "Bill" Letts and Daisy Gwendoline Fuller after a difficult pregnancy.
- Rose's mother suffered from clinical depression and was given electroconvulsive therapy both during and immediately after her pregnancy; some have argued that this treatment may have caused prenatal developmental injuries to her daughter.
- After her parents separated she initially lived with her mother and attended Cleeve School for six months, then moved in with her father in Bishop's Cleeve, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
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WikipediaRosemary Pauline West (née Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least ten young women between 1973 and 1987; she also murdered her eight-year-old stepdaughter, Charmaine, in 1971. The majority of these murders took place at the West residence at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester.
Rose is currently an inmate at New Hall Prison in Flockton, West Yorkshire, after being convicted in 1995 and sentenced to ten life terms with a whole life order. Fred died by suicide in prison that same year while awaiting trial, following the couple's arrest in 1994.
Rose West was born Rosemary Pauline Letts, on 29 November 1953, in Northam, Devon, to William Andrew "Bill" Letts and Daisy Gwendoline Fuller after a difficult pregnancy. She was the fifth of seven children born into a poor family. Rose's mother suffered from clinical depression and was given electroconvulsive therapy both during and immediately after her pregnancy; some have argued that this treatment may have caused prenatal developmental injuries to her daughter.
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