Rose West has ‘found religion in jail and believes God will forgive her’ for House of Horrors murders
EVIL Rose West has found religion in jail and "believes God will forgive her" for the House of Horrors murders, a fellow lag has claimed.
The twisted serial killer attends chapel services every Sunday and blames her husband Fred West for her horrific crimes, telling inmates he was "making me do things".
Ex-con Katherine Jones, 52, who was in HMP Low Newton, Co Durham with the 64-year-old, also revealed how the depraved monster bakes cakes for her lesbian lovers.
On one occasion inmates had called Rose, who murdered and tortured ten women in Gloucester, over and asked her "what's it like knowing you'll be leaving this place in a wooden box?"
Katherine told the “That’s when she came out with all this stuff about ‘finding God’ and being ‘forgiven by God’ and ‘Fred made me do it.’ We couldn’t believe it.
“She was blaming him but we all knew what she’d done. Rose does go to chapel every Sunday. She may be trying to find something by doing that but I don’t know what – after everything she’s done.”
Katherine, from Liverpool, explained that Rose is the "main woman" in the prison but "gets a lot of stick" for who she is.
She also discussed Rose's lesbian affairs, revealing she had different relationships with a few girlfriends behind bars.
Katherine said: “She’d make cakes for the girls. She loved the kitchen, she used to eat a lot. She grassed me up once. I was banned from the kitchen but I snuck in to get some food and she grassed on me for it.”
She also told how Rose had tried to get all TVs removed when she found out a documentary about her horrific crimes was going to be aired.
But the guards refused and Rose refused to come out her cell the next day.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Katherine also revealed Rose was given a “sewing office’” behind bars so she could do needlework in peace.
She even put up a sign outside, proudly saying “Threads” but the inmate changed it to read “Freds” — after Rose’s late serial killer husband Fred West.
But the lag said Rose was treated like a celeb by staff in HMP Durham — before both were switched to HMP Low Newton.
Katherine said: “It made me sick to see how much they pampered this vile monster.
“The staff gave her a little office on the wing and she put up a sign saying ‘Threads’.
“But I changed it to ‘Fred’s’ — I don’t think she was happy about it. I used to shout down the wing, ‘Rose West’! She’d say, ‘Yes’? And I’d yell, ‘Fred wants ya’!”
Katherine had been serving life in jail for murder, but was released last month.
She added: “Doing time alongside Rose West was my punishment. I’m so glad I’ll never have to see her evil face again.”
LIVES LOST: The victims of Fred and Rose West
Anna McFall
The nanny of Fred and Rena West’s children, McFall was believed to have been murdered in 1967.
She was pregnant when she died, with West believed to have been the father. Her body was found in June 1994 in a shallow grave.
Fred West denied murdering McFall but he is said to have confided to a visitor after his arrest that he stabbed her following an argument.
This happened before Rosemary West met him.
Charmaine West
With Fred in prison for the theft of car tyres and a vehicle tax disc, Rosemary was left to look after Charmaine and Anne Marie.
The former just eight-years-old, was Fred West’s stepdaughter from his previous marriage.
A neighbour Tracey is said to have found Charmaine tied to a wooden chair with her hands behind a back with Rosemary standing with a large wooden spoon.
Rosemary claimed she’d been taken by her mother, but her skeleton was found at the Midland Road property, hidden and missing bones.
Rena West
Rena is believed to have been murdered by strangulation.
Rosemary was not charged for this murder.
Lynda Gough
Lynda Gough was the first sexually motivated killing conducted by the Wests.
She moved into Cromwell Street in April 1973, having had affairs with several lodgers. The Wests later claimed she’d been asked to leave after hitting one of their children.
Strangulation and suffocation were the likely causes of death.
Carol Ann Cooper
Cooper was murdered in November 1973, aged just 15.
On the night of November 9, she was allowed to spend the night at her grandmother’s house before a doctor’s appointment the next morning.
She attended the appointment and then met her boyfriend, before somehow ending up on Cromwell Street.
Her body was found more than twenty years later.
Lucy Partington
A 21-year-old medieval English student at Exeter University, she returned home for Christmas in December 1973.
She left a friend’s house in a rush to get the last bus from Cheltenham to Gretton on 27 December, with it believed she was abducted from this bus stop.
She was found more twenty years later, her dismembered body in the cellar of Cromwell Street.
Therese Siegenthaler
A 21-year-old Swiss sociology student at Woolwich Polytechnic.
She had planned to hitch-hike to Ireland in Easter 1974. Her family reported her missing having not heard from her for some time.
Prosecution believe she was abducted before being killed, with Fred West later building a fake chimney over her grave.
Shirley Hubbard
Just 15 at the time of her death, Hubbard is believed to have been abducted by the Wests.
Her body was found following an excavation in the concrete and plastic membrane of the cellar floor.
Juanita Mott
In the summer of 1974, Mott moved into 25 Cromwell Street but later went missing when she was living in Newent.
Her body was found in March 1994, 19 years later, with West having concreted over the floor of the cellar.
Shirley Robinson
The first victim buried outside the house, Robinson had an affair with Fred West, and by autumn 1977, she was pregnant with West’s child.
It was initially claimed she had moved to Scotland but her body was later found.
When questioned, Rosemary West, herself pregnant with her daughter Tara at the time of the murder, claimed she did not remember her, which was described as “ludicrous” by the prosecution.
Alison Chambers
The last murder with a sexual motive established. She disappeared just before her 17th birthday, having been seen at 25 Cromwell Street throughout the summer.
Her body was buried underneath the patio.
Heather West
The first child born to Fred and Rosemary West, there is no evidence she was aware of the killings.
Sexually abused by her parents and having told friends, she suddenly went missing in 1987, with Rosemary claiming she had gone to Wales to be with a lesbian partner.
The couple would joke to their other children that they would “end up under the patio like Heather” if they misbehaved, this, and their changing stories, lead to the search warrants for the property, which lead to their arrests.
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