How the chance of catching Fred and Rose West was missed when social workers overlooked a horrifying detail

They are known by the most horrible serial killers in the UK, where the couple takes the life of 12 women and girls between them in their ‘house of horrors’.

While the crimes of Fred and Rose to the west of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, have since come to light, an investigation has discovered that social workers have missed an important detail that could have led to their arrest two years earlier.

It is thought that the earliest of Fred’s pathogenic violations started in his younger years when he is supposed to have sexually abused his younger sister. But when he met Rose, the couple fed each other’s corrupt desires and started a campaign of torture, sexual violence and murder that lasted 14 years.

The police finally brought Fred and Rose’s murder to an end to February 1994 when they appeared in Cromwell Street with a search order. They were later convicted of the combined murders of 12 women in their house in Gloucester between 1967 and 1987, including their daughter Heather, 16.

However, the police have discovered the bones of Heather two years earlier if they had paid attention to a comment from one of the West children when they were interviewed in August 1992, according to the Cromwell research.

At the time, the police and social provisions had removed the children from their house because of concerns about child protection and they temporarily moved to Cowley Manor in Cheltenham.

After the move, the staff of the social facilities and the police interviewed the children, which then referred someone to a family report of ‘Heather sitting under the terrace’.

Only when the police discovered the bones of Heather under the concrete did the true meaning of the sinister ‘joke’ come to light.

The interviews of the police and social provisions took some time, with one of one and a half days.

During the long interview, a West -child made a fleeting remark about the ‘joke’ of the family. However, the police officer did not remember the comment and instead focused on their immediate protection of protection.

At the time, Heather’s residence were only important because she could have given more information about the safety of her brother or sister for the investigation, which means that the police were not worried about her well -being.

From that moment on there were no further entries from Heather to a year later, in the early summer of 1993, when social workers started the comments of the children about the ‘joke’ and their claims that a patio was made when Heather was missing.

Because the Westchildren did not make the comments often, the staff initially conflicted about it as to literally.

By August of that year and after further comments, however, the staff were sure that the police should be informed, and so a social worker and the legal director of the district council reached.

The police tried to find Heather, but at the beginning of 1994, officers could still not find her.

That is why the police decided that witnesses of the children’s comments about Heather would have to make formal statements.

Together with previous police questions, the statements have provided the Gloucester magistrates sufficient evidence to issue a search order, so that officers in the West Family house can look for proof of Heather location.

On February 24, the detective -head inspector Terry Moore and Detective Inspector Tony James visited the West -House and told Rose that her backyard should be searched in connection with the disappearance of Heather.

That evening Fred came home from work after the police officers left and voluntarily went to the police station, where he told officers that he had recently seen Heather in Birmingham.

The next day, Fred admitted to the police in his house that Heather was in the garden, but that they looked in the wrong place.

The police arrested Fred, who admitted Heather, but later withdrew his statements, and Rose, who did not admit crime.

On 26 February the police found remains of the body of Heather in the garden, as well as the remains of a second body.

Fred appeared two days later at the court of Gloucester Magistrates, where he was accused of the murder of his daughter.

On May 26, Rose was accused of the murder of Heather between 28 May 1987 and 27 February 1994. She replied: “I am innocent.”

Heather, born on October 17, 1970, was the first of the victims of Fred and Rose West discovered in 25 Cromwell Street and is generally considered the last victim of her parents.

She was the oldest daughter of the couple and was sexually abused by her parents throughout her life.

Heather complained to friends about the abuse and her parents killed her to keep her still.

The teenager only recently completed her GCSE exams before she disappeared.

The victims of Cromwell Street – some teenagers; all feminine – were lodgers, nanny girls, students, lift walkers, Runaways. They were subjected to brutal sexual attacks by Fred and sometimes got up. Some were mutilated; Many were beheaded.

Rose and Fred had eight children during their marriage. None of them suspected that their house kept such bloody secrets until their parents were arrested and charged after the bodies were excavated.

Fred, it also came to light, had committed at least two further murders alone, while Rose was responsible for killing Fred’s stepdaughter Charmaine of his first marriage to Rena, who was also one of Fred’s early victims.

Fred admitted to this monstrous catalog of crimes and claimed that he had acted alone. He committed suicide on January 1, 1995, in his cell in the prison of Birmingham, where he was held in pre -trial detention.

Rose consistently claimed her innocence, but the jury did not believe her during her trial. Conducted for ten murders, she was sentenced to life imprisonment with a later order from the Minister of the Interior that she should never be released.