Caged serial killer Rose West spurned marriage offer

Rose West
ON GUILT: West claims she's innocent and insists murders were all Fred's
ON GUILT: West claims she's innocent and insists murders were all Fred's
ON SEX: Her sickening descriptions of how she'd like to bed her penpal Victor
ON SEX: Her sickening descriptions of how she'd like to bed her penpal Victor
ON BLAME: She accuses her parents and claims that she's a scapegoat
ON BLAME: She accuses her parents and claims that she's a scapegoat
ON FRED: She says she hated husband
ON FRED: She says she hated husband
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THE warped mind of mass killer Rose West is today exposed in sickening LOVE LETTERS sent from her cell.

Through page after page of handwritten notes, the psycho pours out her innermost thoughts on SEX, her life with MONSTER husband Fred. . . and the MURDERS she insists she didn't commit.

For nearly a year, twisted West, 54, cunningly strung along her penpal 'lover'-a single, middle-aged businessman called Victor.

She professed undying love for him and fantasised about BEDDING him as she cuddled one of his T-shirts.

But then she COLDLY SPURNED his offer of MARRIAGE when she realised he was had no MONEY.

"I'm sorry-but even a girl in my position needs someone with just a little more prospects!" the absurd fiend writes in her Dear John last letter.

Hear Rose West's voice for first time, as taped by penpal 'lover' Victor

She also had phone chats with him-and her voice can today be heard for the FIRST TIME here.

West began her prison "affair" by chillingly trying to win his sympathy, painting herself as the REAL VICTIM after he first wrote to her.

"It's been horrible-extremely painful, fear provoking, heartbreakingly sad, frustrating. Most of it has been pretty black!" she whimpers of her time in jail, forgetting the horror she and Fred inflicted as she helped him torture and kill ten of his 12 victims in their Cromwell Street home.

She blames her parents and her 53-year-old husband-who committed suicide before his trial-for putting her where she is as she writes: "This is the point where I spell it out for you. I AM INNOCENT OF MURDER!! . . .

"My parents-they were sick people who should never have had children in the first place. They were control freaks and at their hands we suffered mental, physical and sexual abuse . . . No one cared for us EVER!

"Once Fred West came along, and we were screaming for help, it all fell on deaf ears. But the biggest betrayal has to be the way they staged-managed my trial so I was left to stand for all the years of incompetence and corruption!!"

Wrongly

And she writes later: "I have had to absorb all the evil actions of FW AND his brother (John West was charged with raping victims and hanged himself) because neither are here to answer to their crimes. I'm fed up getting up every day knowing I am wrongly imprisoned."

But the most stomach-turning letters involve her attempt to SEDUCE Victor which begin after he sends her a photo.

"I'm all in a dither!! God has sent me a beautiful young man!! I like what I see too . . ," she writes.

"Are your truly interested in everything about me!?!! Well let me warn you that everything is HUGE!!

Later she brags about her size: "I'm a BIG girl!! Size 20 in trousers, size 44 bust and not too sure about my waist. My best qualities are my face and, odd though it may seem, my hands." Then she simpers: "Could I love a stranger? Can we love each other? I believe so yes."

In a further letter, as her "passion" hots up, she demands that Victor send her a T-shirt he has worn so she can "have something of yours to keep close". The next note says: "And as for the shirt . . . WOW!!! I have a real sense of you now . . .

"I certainly imagined us lying together, cuddled into you like you said (like two spoons!). I could feel you behind me. It was beautiful!!

"So you're a light sleeper! You wouldn't be if I was with you!!"

But she later tells Victor: "I've never had a 'normal' sexual relationship-and now I have to accept that I never will!"

In one letter the vile killer even reveals how she met Fred-claiming she was DISGUSTED by him-and how he seduced her in a CARAVAN.

MASS KILLERS: Fred and Rose
MASS KILLERS: Fred and Rose

"I was waiting at Cheltenham bus station. West approached me and started talking. My first impression was, as I say, disgust!! He was dirty, he seemed shifty and I didn't like the way he spoke . . .

"Of course, West could charm the birds out of the trees and after a fair bit of persuasion, I agreed to have a drink with him."

She claims two of his children - one of whom they would later murder-helped seal their romance.

"He hoped I wouldn't be able to resist 'taking care' of Anne-Marie (who survived) and Charmaine (one of his victims). And it worked!! The love and dependency they had for me, another child that had never known proper love before, was irresistible.

"I was soon staying overnight in the caravan with the children whilst he was off somewhere! Sex didn't happen right away-in fact he stripped me off one day and I still said NO!! But once again, he wasn't going to be denied and I soon found myself pregnant!!

Crimes

"This caused war in the house. It was only when West had come face to face with my father-fist flying! and won!!-that I started to believe maybe this was my way out of the oppression my parents had kept me under for so long!!

"At first, it seemed as though he worked hard to get us somewhere to live away from all the s*** . . . But it was all an illusion and by the time I realised it I was in it up to my neck!"

In the letters-all penned from her cell at Durham Prison between January and September 2005-shameless West never tires of portraying herself as a scapegoat for her crimes. "Do I have a right to freedom again?! I'm afraid those who benefit from having me in jail would disagree with you! A scapegoat is something that has to be there to absorb all the sh... society doesn't want to deal with."

She even paints the late Moors monster MYRA HINDLEY as a martyr like herself, writing: "She was kept in prison because it suited the authorities to keep her there . . . Of course she was guilty of helping him (Ian Brady) to kill, but she was a scapegoat none the less!!!"

In one letter West persuades Victor to talk to her on the phone-"if you have a number I can get it cleared and we could cover a lot of the 'getting to know you' more personally."

She also reveals life behind bars in her ramblings. "Yes we do have television. I like watching wildlife programmes best. I also like to keep up with Eastenders and Coronation Street. Sean Connery is my best all-time actor."

The killer even tells him how she spring cleaned her cell-with a TOILET BRUSH. "I was caught cleaning my toilet windows with the loo brush !! A couple of officers looked up and started singing 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'."

But the love letters ceased when her penpal confessed he was having financial problems. West disposed of him as quickly as if he were one of her victims. Last night Victor told us: "I found her last letter about my financial hardship very offensive.

"In the end, she showed what a hard hearted-bitch she really is."

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hello my 2nd cousin allison chambers was murderd buy these sick people i just want to no why how can you do such a thing ure eveil twisted

By kyle lovell.. Posted October 4 2009 at 12:02 AM.

hello my 2nd cousin allison chambers was murderd buy these sick people i just want to no why how can you do such a thing ure eveil twisted

By kyle lovell.. Posted October 3 2009 at 11:54 PM.

i lived not far from them i live in the forest of dene in cinderford not far from gloucester and i thin there both sick and should be killed

By matt.. Posted August 19 2009 at 12:16 AM.

I was only 15 years of age when this story broke out on the news, and i,ve got to say i will never forget the effect that it had on me, even though i lived miles away in London from the place of crimes Gloucester. i her'ed the tv news of the story first, and then i stupidly red the whole pages after pages articles in the news paper. i couldn't sleep for days and the whole sordid, evil story played on my mind. even though i was 15 the whole story frightened the life out of me, and even now when i think about it, i still sometimes can't sleep. I guess to me, this is a reminder of how cruel and evil some people can be. I see people on this article sometimes saying about abuse and sexual abuse, but unless you have exsperienced it, you no nothing. I was just 8 when my own biological father started to sexualy abuse me, and mentaly and physicly abuse me, it stopped in 1991 when i was 12, and luckily my mother left my father, and on a visit to her, i broke my silence and told her about the abuse i suffered at the hands of my father. by rights or according to some people, i should be in prison for being a serial killer or a abuser, but i'm not. In fact, my life couldn't be further from that, and i know i could never become the next hitler,fred west or like my own father, i'm simply to nice for that, and i have something called a heart, soul and a conchence.

By nicholas30.. Posted August 9 2009 at 8:17 AM.

The best thing to learn from this story is that, we need to learn from historys mistakes, and stop the suffering of children and rapes of woman from ever happening again, in other words wipe it out of existance. If you no someone who has disapeared under strange and uncertain circumstances, Then report it right away, because your lack of response or intuition could cost a missing person there life.

R.I.P The victims - always in my thoughts x

By nicholas30.. Posted August 9 2009 at 8:24 AM.

It doesn't say how old Victor is. I was once told by a wise old woman that if a man reaches maturity and still hasn't got hitched, there is a very good reason why he hasn't been snapped up. In modern-speak, he has "issues!" Otherwise he would go out and meet someone in the old fashioned manner! There is nothing remotely normal about this bizarre relationship! The guy was lonely with a capital L! And loneliness can make people really plunge the depths, and tell bare faced lies TO THEMSELVES! I don't think he set out with the intention of selling Rose out like he did, but the opportunity presented itself, and he thought "why not?" Probably just a regular guy with serious issues!

By julie.. Posted May 7 2009 at 12:12 AM.

I am responding to the last comment made. Alongside personal experience, I have worked very closely for a number of years with victims/survivors of historic and present sexual abuse and victims of domestic violence. I agree that such abuse has long term effects on victims that manifest themselves in more ways that can be mentioned but I have to disagree with your comment! Becoming the abuser is a choice that is made...yes many abused children who go on to be abused adults put up or keep quiet for many reasons but in my experience, there is a cut off point. This is usually when their children are in danger. RW went alot further than this to the point where she was just as much responsible for what happened. A long time ago, a very wise women quoted something to me that I will never forget, 'All abusers have suffered abuse but not all the abused go on to abuse!'


By gemma.. Posted March 14 2009 at 5:14 PM.

Rosemary is a victim. From the very beginning, when she was still in her mother's womb, she was subjected to anti-depressant drugs that her mom took, and why wouldn't her mother be depressed??? She was married to an evil sick minded man whom later raped their little daughter rose! He must have been a horrible person to be married to and be pregnant with. Then poor little rose grew up getting raped by that psycho dad! I wouldn't be surprised if he beat her up and emotionally abused her too. Does anyone understand psychology at all? The cycle of violence? when a child is subjected to rape and abuse what happens to them? they get messed up, and when its a girl its worse..She ends up with a man who's just like her father, because she doesn't know any better!!

By Anne.. Posted February 26 2009 at 7:06 AM.

seriously why the **** did victor want anything to do with her in the first place he is just as sick and as twisted as her by the sounds of it bloody weirdos if u ask me the filthy cow can rot in jail she deserves it my sympathy goes to the families who have endured the pain she caused them x

By kim6906.. Posted November 13 2008 at 11:42 PM.

she should be screaming in pain, enduring torture and sleeping on a bed of glass. She sounds quite happy! what the hell is that all about. for christs sake maker her life hell or kill her off slowly. she is a waste of money to still be breathing unless she is in severe pain and discomfort living every day in agony. she doesn't even think she has done anything wrong. The criminal system has failed miserably. human rights do not apply here.

By nick.. Posted November 5 2008 at 4:26 PM.

Rose was one of my best friends at school. She came to my 16th birthday party, in August 1970. She seemed normal then. Who knows what went wrong, or how the wrong buttons got pressed!

By Worzelyn.. Posted November 4 2008 at 4:08 PM.

I think people like Victor should not be allowed to publise his 'relationship' with the likes of Rose West.
It is morally wrong, to make money in this way, do people like him, not think of the young girls who were killed, or their families who, who no doubt go through more hearbreak and pain, everytime articles are published about this monstrous pair.

Victor and people like him have no shame, no common decency.

I've read all of the books published on the Wests and their monstrous crimes, she deserves to rot in prison, at least she is alive, fed and well looked after, unlike her poor victims.

By Vin.. Posted October 18 2008 at 3:24 PM.

I congratulate Victor in getting this information to the public on Rose West. We need to know how these sick minds work, and if Victor makes some money of out his 'love affair' then i say good on him. At least we now know how this evil female, and others like her, thinks.

By JUNE KILLINGTON.. Posted October 4 2008 at 8:25 AM.

Am i the only person here who finds powerfull women sexy??

Imagine the thrill and danger of a relationship, physical or otherwise with this woman.

By Ben Clark from Gloucester.. Posted October 2 2008 at 3:19 PM.

wow .... i was working a couple of streets away from their house (well its an allyway now) and we found bones in the garden ,so we rang the police ,it all just turnt out to be sheep bones!!!!

By legion cc.. Posted October 2 2008 at 4:46 PM.

She killed them Just as much as he did i hope she rots in jail

By Jaymi allen.. Posted September 30 2008 at 11:46 PM.

Victor is as sick as her, selling his dirty, cheap little story. Another evil pig makes money out of children being raped and killed. Obviously it was a long term plan to make some cash

By loujam.. Posted September 30 2008 at 8:07 AM.

Mrs West talks about being one of several sexual abuse victims. You should take it down that letter, as whoever it is that she says was also abused has a right to privacy.

By Amanda Ellis.. Posted September 29 2008 at 1:53 PM.

I honestly don't know who's more sick. That evil bitch for what she has done or that idiot for thinking he could love something as evil as that

By Woody.. Posted September 29 2008 at 1:42 AM.

i read the book dirty,sick,sick bitch,2 me they both played of each other (fred and rose) and she does sound normal ...but dont they all??

By julie.. Posted September 28 2008 at 8:58 PM.

god she does sound normal doesn't she shame other things arn't normal like her sick twisted mind can't believe your still with us rose i was hoping you'd have died by now suffering some horrible death ohwell your time will come BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By sal33.. Posted September 28 2008 at 9:09 PM.

That evil thing should be put in a room with all the victims familes and let the bitch suffer !

By Katherine hawley.. Posted September 28 2008 at 8:15 PM.

Mmm. Methinks Victor found a nice little earner to subsidise his financial problems at West's expense.

By Michael.. Posted September 28 2008 at 6:03 PM.

i think that victor should be checked out completely, because if he can even think about aving a relationship or write letters to someone like her then there is defo something wrong in his mind. maybe he has dark hinden secrets!

By vicky.. Posted September 28 2008 at 3:31 PM.

pity fred did not kill her as well as him self

By caz.. Posted September 28 2008 at 4:31 PM.

What a loser this bloke is. Can't even pull Rose West.
pml.
Now he's sold his sordid little story I expect he can pay off some of his debts. She did him a favour.
He was offended when she dumped him because he had no money, pml.
Best laugh I've had all week. Keep it up NOTW

By monty.. Posted September 28 2008 at 5:04 PM.

The death penalty should have been brought back for Rose and Fred. Why is it that hard working taxpayers should pay to keep demons like that in prison in what would appear to be the lap of luxury?

It's time to take a hard line against serious offenders in this country

By Ronald McEwen.. Posted September 28 2008 at 2:45 PM.

shes sounds like a normal lady, i was suprised at her voice. i was expecting her to sound like a monster.
none of us actually Know what happened, so give her the benefit of the doubt. maybe she was manipulated by her husband.

By sam the man.. Posted September 28 2008 at 1:39 PM.

sick sick sick!!!! shes abowt 5 cans of stella short of a 6 pack and she deserves to rot in that prison to her last twisted breath!!!!

By spencer clayton.. Posted September 28 2008 at 1:20 PM.

People like Rose West and the Ripper have empty lives in prison and thrive on their notoriety and the attention it brings. It's all they have. If you really want to punish them, ignore them. Don't publish sensational stories about them and let them fade into folklore.

By Paul.. Posted September 28 2008 at 12:51 PM.

Why do theses people, like serial killers or rapists keep getting all the newspaper coverage all the time, they should be banished from all publication it, this sure makes them feel good, this lot should be sent to an island, a shark infested island all the better, and let them fend for themselves be it food or shelter.

By Clynt.. Posted September 28 2008 at 12:28 PM.

Bring back capital punishment! A life for a life that's what i say. It may also curb the appeal of knives with an effective deterrent. It would also cut down on prison population and reduce the amount of taxpayers money being spent.

By Kim.. Posted September 28 2008 at 12:32 PM.

Wat an evil woman shes a evil lying coward who deserves to rot

By Rob jonsn.. Posted September 28 2008 at 12:32 PM.

It costs in excess of £30K A MONTH to keep this creature alive with 3 meals a day, a tv, books, recreation time and also a team ensuring SHE doesn't come to any harm. These letter show there is no remorse and that the prison system is not working. There i am afriad that capital punishment should be returned to stop this drain on our country and fund more worthy things in our society like the victims and law abing.

By Anon.. Posted September 28 2008 at 10:25 AM.

Anybody who wants to pursue a romantic relationship with a woman like that needs their head feeling. He should think of it as a lucky escape, not lament it.

By Beth.. Posted September 28 2008 at 10:32 AM.

I thought she was dead along with the filth Fred west, why even bother to print her letters, what a waste of space when there is so much more to write about.

By sandymasoud.. Posted September 28 2008 at 10:29 AM.

This of course is all to do with Th Human Rights Act. The worse Act this country's ever had. The next thing we know the woman from Liberty will be sticking up for this evil woman. Just let her rot in prison. Thank god Lord Londford is not alive he would be trying to save this woman. Mind you I think Liberty can do some damage and get this woman out of prison. Bring back Hanging.

By David .. Posted September 28 2008 at 10:14 AM.

Evil woman. The scarry thing is, she sounds so normal. Hope she rots in there

By Debs.. Posted September 28 2008 at 9:15 AM.

This woman isnt even fit to be called an animal, our penal system is a joke thanks to Human Rights publicity seekers various Governments and a church which turns a blind eye to peverts. I say this animal should rot in prison not be able to write love letters .

By Peter Kent.. Posted September 28 2008 at 9:22 AM.

And this Victor is normal? I dont think so. Nobody normal and in their right mind would want any kind of relationship with Rose West,so no sympathy on my behalf for this weirdo.

By Sandra Scott.. Posted September 28 2008 at 6:18 AM.

this evil/sicko has no comprehension of love, only pure evil.

By bacon butty.. Posted September 28 2008 at 4:05 AM.

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