Fred & Rose Quotes

“You will always be Mrs West, all over the world. That is important to me and to you.”
― Howard Sounes, Fred & Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

“she picked him up by the neck and throttled him, actually lifting his body off the floor.”
― Howard Sounes, Fred & Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

“IN 1957 JOHN WEST left Marcle School and went to work on the farm with Fred and their father. Life as an unskilled labourer was poorly paid, but the West boys could expect nothing better. Their father had been a farm worker all his life, as had their maternal grandfather, William Hill, and his father before him; there was no reason to hope or think that John and Fred would ever do anything else. An acquaintance of Fred’s at the time, Patrick Meredith, says that he fully expected Fred to be ‘walking behind a cow with a stick for the rest of his life’.”
― Howard Sounes, Fred & Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors