“ Rose West went on trial on 3rd October 1995 in the glare of media frenzy.
Her defence counsel tried to argue that evidence of assault was
not evidence of murder but, when Rose testified on her own behalf, her violent nature and dishonesty became
clear to the jury, and they unanimously found her guilty on ten separate counts of
murder on 22nd November 1995. She was sentenced to a minimum of
25 years in jail. Witnesses including her daughter Anne Marie and
Caroline Owens, one of their first victims,
testified to her participation in sexual assaults
on young women. Rose continued to produce children at regular intervals and
the birth of daughter Louise in November 1978, brought their offspring to six, although not all were fathered by
West. What is infuriating is that, according to a recent
Daily Mail article, Rosemary West has it pretty good in prison (a lot
better than many of us regular working folks)! ”