Notorious murderer Rose West remains a monster after 30 years in prison, winning the trust of vulnerable prisoners with make-up and cake to launch depraved sex attacks
Serial killer Rose West, caged in 1995 for murdering ten girls and women with her husband Fred, is reportedly grooming younger inmates behind bars. In the wake of her horrific assault on a young prisoner, it has been revealed that the murderer has been grooming young female prisoners with make-up and cakes, while acting like “a celebrity” behind bars.
The 72-year-old predator sexually assaulted a vulnerable inmate after grooming her for weeks. But her twisted cell attack cost the vile killer her privileges at a cushy prison unit, where she allegedly had guards “wrapped around her finger”.
West is serving a whole-life term at New Hall prison near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. She was caged for life after she and her husband Fred West butchered women and girls over 20 years, gratifying their perverted sexual urges on their victims with rape, bondage, torture, and mutilation.
After her husband killed himself, she has always claimed total innocence in these crimes. But the latest revelations about her sick grooming schemes cement her reputation as a vile monster.
Former prisoners told the Daily Mail that the murderer has a history of trying to groom “vulnerable” young female lags. West also had the guards on her unit “wrapped around her finger”, they claimed.
“Rose would try and befriend people. She would do up their hair, put make-up on them. She would also make cakes on a Friday,” an ex-prisoner revealed, according to The Sun.
“It became a thing on the wing where people would make cakes for the weekend and the staff would join in. She was quite arrogant, like she was some sort of celebrity. West has form for trying to make friends with young girls in there.”
Another female lag said West had approached her in the canteen queue. After she complimented the woman on her name, she asked what she had been watching on TV.
West was held in a special section of the prison called Rivendell House. Named after the magical realm of elves in The Lord Of The Rings, the cushy unit offers privileges such as tending chickens and roaming the verdant grounds.
Inmates enjoy yoga and knitting classes as well as film nights. But West has now lost her “enhanced” prisoner privileges that gave her extra cash for the canteen along with TV and DVD rights, access to workshops, and time out of her cell.
Her depraved sex attack is also the talk of the whole prison. “Rose looks like a frail pensioner, but she is still extremely dangerous — as this attack shows,” a prisoner said.
“She befriended a young girl, in her 20s, and basically groomed her before the attack. The whole prison is talking about it and inmates are shocked, despite what they might have done themselves. It is pretty disgusting she had the freedom to do something like this in the first place.”
West is now overweight with grey hair but still wears the trademark thick-rimmed glasses she was pictured in at the time of her horrific crimes.
She was moved to Rivendell in 2019 after being threatened by a fellow serial killer, Joanna Dennehy, at Durham’s Low Newton. She was earlier at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford in Surrey but had to move after a plot to batter her with a sock filled with snooker balls.
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