The harrowing details of the Wests’ murders have been raked over time and time again, in TV dramas, true-crime documentaries and podcasts. Yet we are apparently not done with hearing just how depraved the couple were. Netflix’s new three-part documentary Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story recounts the story yet again.
The Wests met when Rose was just 15 and Fred was in his thirties (Photo: Netflix)
But it turns out director Dan Dewsbury isn’t too concerned with us at home, instead using Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story as an attempt at bringing peace to the friends and family of the couples’ victims. “It’s for Alison,” says Dezra Chambers, sister to Alison who was killed by Fred West at just 16. “But also for me so that I can have a bit of closure. I don’t have that at the moment.”
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The three parts take a simple approach to telling the story. In the first, “Fred”, we are told of how police are made aware of Fred’s potential violence via his children. If they were naughty, they were told they would end up “under the patio” like their sister. Social services, who already made regular visits to the West house, grew alarmed at hearing this and informed the police. That sister was Heather, Fred and Rose’s first daughter, murdered by her mother at 16 years old. As the police searched for her remains, they found more bones buried in the back garden. Soon, the case had snowballed into one of the most notorious murder investigations in British history.
Dezra Chambers – sister of victim Alison – says she took part in the film for ‘closure’ (Photo: Netflix)With the new sources focusing on Fred, Rose’s involvement is left a little in the shadows. And while it stops at framing her as another one of Fred’s victims, much is made of the fact that she was just 15 when they met and there is reference to the fact that she might have been abused as a child. There’s no such attempt to explain why Fred might have turned into such a predatory killer.
‘Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story’ is streaming on Netflix
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