Rose West: The Making of a Monster by Woodrow Jane Carter

Author:Woodrow, Jane Carter [Woodrow, Jane Carter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848946866
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2011-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

17

Rosie Goes Home

Tobyfield Road, Bishop’s Cleeve, 1971

AROUND THIS TIME, CHARMAINE’S murder and Fred’s own secrets appear to have become too much for the 17-year-old to bear. Perhaps Rose had a heart after all; or perhaps she was simply terrified at what she’d got herself into. Whatever the case, Rose got up one Sunday morning, put baby Heather in the pram and fled to her parents’ house. But Daisy was not the only one who had been visiting Rose at Midland Road in secret. Despite the state of the place, Bill had also been making secret trips there, where he’d repeatedly asked his daughter to come home. Rosie had turned down his requests, but now that she’d finally sought refuge at her parents’ house, Bill told her, ‘You’ve made your bed, now lie in it.’

These were, of course, the words of a cuckolded man whose ‘mistress’ had dumped him for another. Rosie had chosen Fred over Bill, and now Bill was making her pay for it. His refusal to protect his daughter and allow her to come back home was critical, as it could have diverted Rose from the course of becoming one of the world’s most infamous serial killers. Instead it propelled her back into Fred’s arms, and later to the house at Cromwell Street that would eventually become their killing fields.

Fred had turned up at the Letts’ home later that day and called to his young mistress at the back door in his coaxing, hypnotic voice, ‘Rosie … Come on Rosie … You know what we’ve got between us …’

What they had between them was, of course, like no other young couple who’d been living together for less than a year. Rose’s father had come to the door, and Fred had said, ‘What’s the crack then? What’s wrong?’

‘You treat her like a child,’ Bill replied.

Fred then went back to the van telling Bill, ‘Right, tell Rose that I’m going to sit in the van out the front there for ten minutes, and if she ain’t there, there’ll be somebody else in her bed tonight.’

When Rose heard this, she picked up the baby and turned on her parents, ‘You don’t know him! There’s nothing he wouldn’t do!’

Bill must have changed his mind, for when Rosie went out to Fred, he ran after her telling her, ‘He’s only kidding.’

But the damage was done, and Fred was now driving her away, on the road to murdering together as they descended into Hell.

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