Fred West - Aftermath

Aftermath

The evidence against Rosemary was circumstantial; unlike her husband, she did not confess. She was tried in October 1995 at Winchester Crown Court, found guilty of all 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial judge recommended that she never be released and 18 months later the then-serving Home Secretary Jack Straw agreed with this recommendation.

In October 1996, the Wests' house in Cromwell Street, which was next to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, along with the adjoining property No. 23, was demolished and the site made into a pathway. Every brick was crushed and every timber was burned to discourage souvenir hunters.

Novelist Martin Amis was a cousin of the Wests' victim Lucy Partington, who disappeared in 1973; he dedicated his novel The Information (published in 1995) to her.