Fred & Rose West: Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples (True Crime, Serial Killers, Murderers) by Ryan Green

Author:Ryan Green [Green, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

The deception comes to an end

On the 24th of February 1994, police knocked on the door to Number 25 Cromwell Street with a warrant to excavate the back garden in search of the remains of Heather Ann West. When Stephen West answered the door, he reacted to the warrant with genuine surprise and amusement – were the police really going to demolish the patio and dig up their garden over a joke? When her son told her about the warrant Rose, immediately telephoned Fred. He replied that he was “on his way.”

Fred reportedly left the construction site he was working on as soon as he received the call at 1:40pm, but by the time detectives left the house at half past five that evening, he still had not arrived. He was not seen or heard from until 7:40pm, when he arrived by his own volition at Gloucester police station. What he did during those six hours is a mystery to all, but there has been some plausible speculation. When it was discovered that fingers, toes, and kneecaps of all of the girls and women Fred had buried had been removed, the question arose of just what had happened to them. If Fred had kept them as souvenirs, he may have used that time to get rid of them. Alternatively, he may have visited other burial sites, perhaps that of his first love Anne McFall, or perhaps some other secret site that was never discovered.

The purpose of the visit to the police station was simply to mock the police once again for expending so much time and resources on a joke. His explanation for Heather’s disappearance and lack of contact was that “lots of girls disappear, change their names and go into prostitution,” reiterating that Heather was a lesbian and had perhaps run away with a partner, and also that she had had drug problems. With the police having no warrant for his arrest, he was free to leave and so returned home. Meanwhile, Rose was also being interviewed at the house, and she would give the police the same account of Heather’s absence.

When Fred got home that evening, he took the dogs for a walk in Gloucester Park, together with Rose. Whatever they discussed on their constitutional, it’s likely that they both recognised and acknowledged the near certainty that the police would find Heather’s remains. Fred also probably offered to completely shield Rose from all suspicion and take all of the blame upon himself.

When Detective Savage and her colleagues came to Number 25 the next morning, Fred had a brief private conference with Rose before instructing the police to take him to the station. When they got him into the police car, he admitted to killing Heather and burying her in the garden, and also told them that they were digging in the wrong place. He was then arrested and taken to Gloucester Police Station.

The Wests’ ploy to deflect suspicion from Rose did not work as well as they had

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