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Serial killer Rose West now spends her days in prison ‘watching David Attenborough‘ and has ditched her distinctive glasses – while ‘pottering about’ under a different name,we can reveal.
Eleanor Brown, 26, who was jailed for posting naked images of her father’s mistress on an escort website, has claimed Britain’s most notorious female murderer is a quiet recluse.
Brown says she spent time with West behind bars at HMP New Hall.
Speaking on TikTok, she described the notorious killer as withdrawn and unassuming, despite her central role in one of Britain’s most horrific murder sprees.
Along with her husband Fred, West – now 72 – tortured and killed at least 10 young women between 1967 and 1987.
Remarkably, Brown, who has since been released after serving half her revenge porn sentence, told followers that the killer was ‘absolutely lovely’.
She said: ‘It’s really weird because when you go to prison you’ve kind of got this idea of what criminals are like and what they put on TV, they’re these really nasty monsters.
‘Don’t get me wrong, the crimes are absolutely horrendous but she was absolutely lovely, she was really kind. She came, she introduced me to herself.
‘She doesn’t call herself by Rose West anymore. She’s got a different name but she was just pleasant, she was just really pleasant.
Eleanor Brown was jailed for three years in October 2024 after she posted sexual images of her father’s former lover on an escort site. She has spoken of being jailed with Rose West
She gave an insight into serial killer Rose West’s time in prison where they were together HMP New Hall. Eleanor says West has changed her name and doesn’t discuss her sickening crimes
‘She liked my name. She was just an old lady. To be honest, had somebody not pointed it out I probably wouldn’t have known who she was.’
It was revealed last year how West had change d her name to ‘Jennifer Jones’ in an apparent attempt to distance herself from her infamous past.
Brown, who was jailed for three years in October 2024, said she encountered West at HMP New Hall, near Wakefield, after being relocated from HMP Askham near York.
She said: ‘She doesn’t really look any different – she’s old, she didn’t have the glasses.
‘Had you not known she was there you probably wouldn’t have been like, ‘oh my f***ing God that’s who that is’.
‘And she doesn’t talk about her crimes, so you can’t like sit down and ask for any gossip.
‘She just keeps herself to herself. She says she likes David Attenborough, and that’s it.
‘She’s just an old woman, there’s nothing exciting about her – you wouldn’t think she was evil.’
Brown went to say: ‘She was pleasant, just a nice old lady’, before correcting herself: ‘No, not a nice old lady, a bad lady but just pleasant.’
She also revealed that West – who abandoned attempts to appeal her conviction in 2001 – came to her cell to wish her luck upon her release.
Brown added: ‘She told me not to get involved with bad people again. She was just pleasant, she was just an old lady.
‘I think she’s in her early 70s but she just potters about, no-one really gives her any s***, not many people talk to her.
‘I can’t really say she’s very well liked.
‘I didn’t see her socialising but then at the same time, I think after living in the same room for 30-odd years, knowing that that’s where you’re going to live for the rest of your life, you’re not really a***d about making mates.’
West is serving a whole-life sentence for her role in the sadistic abuse and murder of at least 10 victims, including her own daughter Heather, whose remains were found buried in the garden of Cromwell Street in 1994.
She is among around 35 women serving life sentences at HMP New Hall and one of around a dozen over the age of 60.
It is believed she struggles to walk and spends the majority of her time alone, knitting.
Fred West, who was charged with murdering 12 young women and girls, hanged himself in custody at HMP Birmingham on January 1, 1995, while awaiting trial.
Eleanor posted a series of videos about her lige in prison since her release – where she says she has no regrets over posting revenge porn pictures of her father’s mistress on an escort site
Brown’s own prison term followed what a judge described as a ‘vindictive, selfish and vengeful’ campaign against her police officer father’s former lover.
She used explicit photographs to create a fake escort profile advertising sex for as little as £5 and overnight stays for £10 before sending links directly to the woman’s husband – whose phone was inundated by men seeking sexual services.
Brown also sent links to the advert directly to the woman’s husband, whose phone was inundated with calls and messages from men seeking sexual services.
At Leeds Crown Court, Judge Alex Menary said Brown had shown a ‘staggering’ lack of remorse and had deliberately maximised her victims’ humiliation by forcing them to give evidence.
He told her: ‘The lack of remorse you showed was staggering. Acting in the way you have is totally devoid of any moral compass whatsoever.’
Since her release, Brown has insisted she feels no regret, declaring on TikTok that she is ‘not sorry and never will be sorry’, while also using social media to air grievances about the prison system and recount life behind bars.
In one video, she said: ‘If I could turn the clocks back the only thing I’d do differently is put my phone in the bin. I would just bin the phone, that phone has got me in so much trouble.
Eleanor arriving at Leeds Crown Court where she was jailed for three years after she posted intimate pictures online of her father Geoff’s mistress
‘But I am not remorseful. I do not hold any remorse in my body. I wouldn’t do it again – your nudes are all safe – but I am definitely not remorseful.’
The drama around the historic affair between father Geoff Brown and the woman was reignited after Eleanor’s mother Sarah had seen the mistress’s husband had set up a new business, which had become a success.
Egged on by her sister and mother, she then began bombarding the businesses social media pages calling the man’s wife a ‘home-wrecking s**g and a tramp’.
The couple eventually called the police, leading to Eleanor’s sentencing and her sister Sophie sacked from her patrol officer job with West Yorkshire Police.
Rose had first met builder Fred in 1969 when she was just 15 and he was 27. She later became pregnant with Heather and helped raise Fred’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Charmaine and Anne Marie.
Their horrifying crimes came to light in 1994 after social workers were told that Heather – who had not been seen since 1986 aged 16 – was buried ‘under the patio’.
Detectives were called in and went on to uncover the remains of nine women and girls at the family home at 25 Cromwell Street.
Charmaine was just eight years old when she was murdered by Rose in June 1971. Her mother, Catherine ‘Rena’ Costello, was killed by Fred eight weeks later.
The bodies of student Lucy Partington, 21, lodger Juanita Mott, 18, and Shirley Hubbard, 15, were discovered in the cellar, while Swiss hitchhiker Therese Siegenthaler, 21, was found buried beneath concrete in front of a false fireplace.
Police also uncovered the remains of lodger Lynda Gough, 19 – whose jaw had been taped shut to silence her – along with abducted schoolgirl Carol Ann Cooper, 15.
Shirley Anne Robinson, 18, was murdered while pregnant with Fred West’s child, while the couple also killed 16-year-old Alison Chambers, who disappeared from a children’s home in 1979.
At her trial in Winchester in 1995, Rose attempted to blame all ten murders on her husband and was handed a life sentence for each victim.
Speaking in 2001, she revealed she was ready to spend the rest of her life in prison after abandoning an appeal.
She said: ‘I know that if I was released life would never be normal. I would have to run and hide and be removed from my children.
‘At least in my present situation I can see them from time to time and have regular contact by correspondence.’
West is one of just four women in Britain to receive a whole-life prison sentence, alongside triple-killer Joanna Dennehy, baby murderer Lucy Letby, and Moors murderer Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002.
It is long suspected that the Wests may have killed more victims.
Rose and Fred West collaborated on their heinous crimes but Fred escaped justice when he died by suicide while awaiting trial while Rose was sentence to life imprisonment
It was claimed in 2001 that Fred confessed to 20 more murders while speaking to a social worker in prison.
Janet Leach, a trainee social worker assigned to West after he was arrested, said at the time: ‘Fred said that there were two other bodies in shallow graves in the woods but there was no way they would ever be found. He said there were 20 other bodies… spread around and he would give police one a year.’
In 2021, Gloucestershire Police spent weeks searching the Clean Plate cafe in Gloucester after a TV crew linked West to the 1968 disappearance of Mary Bastholm, 15.
However, despite an intensive operation costing nearly £80,000 and involving 130 officers, no remains were found.