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it's 3:30am. now on bbc news, inside out west. this programme reflects on the shocking events which gripped gloucester and the world 25 years ago when fred west confessed to murdering his daughter heather. it is hard to believe what happened here. house of horrors was bulldozed a long time ago, but where i am standing now was once the home of fred and rose west. the serial killers who were hiding in plain sight. and their depraved crimes came to light 25 years ago today. the first thing i experienced was murderous rage, so the first thing i experienced was murderous rage, so i realise that this is the beginning of myjourney towards forgiveness. tonight, we

hear from towards forgiveness. tonight, we hearfrom marion towards forgiveness. tonight, we hear from marion partington towards forgiveness. tonight, we hearfrom marion partington whose sister lucy was killed by the couple. i think that feeling of grief and anger and sadness penetrated into the whole city. i think the city was deeply traumatised. and we will be asking has the city of gloucester and its people come to terms with the horrors that emerged a quarter of a century ago? backin back in the early 1990s, gloucester was a typical provincial city. but on the 25th of february 1994, everything changed as builder fred

west who lived at 25 cromwell st confessed to the murder of his daughter heather. he dismembered and buried her in the garden of the family home. it sent tremors through the local community, but it was just the start ofa community, but it was just the start of a series of discoveries that would shock the world. bbc radio gloucester reporter alan walker was one of the first journalists on the scene. that is the one that sticks in my mind because she looks so innocent and beautiful here. that first day he went to 25 cromwell st, you didn't know the extent of it. what was your first visit like mr mark the initial thing was the whereabouts of the

west's daughter, heather. thing was the whereabouts of the west's daughter, heatherlj thing was the whereabouts of the west's daughter, heather. iwent down there to interview one of the police officers. detective inspector terry moore. we are increasingly aware she is a missing person, so as aware she is a missing person, so as a result of that we are carrying out enquiries to locate her. we stood in the back garden, doing this interview and it was raining a little bit. neither of us knew that where we stood on the patio was where we stood on the patio was where eventually remains of heather west would be found. that evening, fred west told police that he had killed heather and a young newspaper reporter called chris summers from the gloucester citizen picked up the story. rumours started coming out from our distribution people delivering the paper. did you realise they are digging up that back garden of a housing cromwell street? we thought that was unusual. why are doing that? and what we gathered from the people we spoke to in cromwell street, they were to all respects outwardly a normal couple.

decent, nice fellow. very, very nice. very, very nice. i can't believe fred is in it at all. he is still a good mate of mine. no-one would ever have thought that what house where they lived at 25 cromwell st actually contain such horrors. the latest! today, heather's father 52—year—old frederick west appeared in court charged with killing her this year. today, the search of the house and garden continued, although detectives refused to say what they we re detectives refused to say what they were looking for. as it began to u nfold were looking for. as it began to unfold and you then found that you we re unfold and you then found that you were talking about the remains, to set remains, three set of remains, for comic grew and grew and grew. set remains, three set of remains, for comic grew and grew and grewm

was a pretty exciting time to be a journalist. you have fleet street's finest coming down, the sun, the telegraph, the mail, bbc were there, trucks started turning up. he sought a realise, we are in a national story here. over the course of the next two weeks, the remains of heather and eight other young women we re heather and eight other young women were recovered from 25 cromwell st. the police searched ex— planted to two other locations, their former home on midland road where the body of fred's 80 roald step daughter charmaine was found, and then on to two fields with inherited bit —— errors should —— village where he spent his early life. i used to live near the two fields that were investigated for the remains —— much marcle. asus it on the gate and look across the field and all these years later i am walking across that same

route to go to one of the big tents where they were digging to try and find the remains of another woman. rena costello was fred west's first wife, charmaine's mother. her remains were found by police digging near much marcle with another victim, anne mcfall discovered nearby. someone has actually come up here and disposed of two sets of remains, it was chilling. were you close with your brother? yeah, we we re always close with your brother? yeah, we were always close, but we didn't live in one another's pockets. were always close, but we didn't live in one another's pocketsm was particularly hard for the west family, wasn't it, who still lived at much marcle? we spoke on several occasions, i know from some years before as well. you have to feel sorry that they were putting this

predicament, this situation, an element of their family had been carrying out some horrendous crimes. as farasi carrying out some horrendous crimes. as far as i know, he was the same as us, a happy family man. you see it on television, and you think it could never happen in real life. but it has. by by the middle ofjune, the body count had reached 12, and fred and rose west were being held in custody while the police and crown prosecution service prepared the cases the trial. covered up. blankets! blankets. but for fred, that trial never happen. i was the duty reporter in the

citizen, it was a sunday and i remember seeing that fred west had been down dead. the body of gloucester builder fred west was found in his cell in birmingham where he was on remand charged with 12 murders. they went and knocked on the front door of doug west's. he was my brother and i were always remember him as he was. ijust rememberfeeling remember him as he was. i just remember feeling quite cheated. i don't know if the right word is looking forward to, but we we re word is looking forward to, but we were sort of looking forward to him going on trial. we wanted to see him pay the penalty. fred had avoided the courtroom, but in november 1995, the media circus swapped gloucester for winchester where a jury would decide the fate of rose west. she wasn't a particularly emotional character, she was quite a dumpy,

from people looking woman with a very sensible haircut and is unfashionable glasses. if you saw her in the street, you wouldn't imagine fora her in the street, you wouldn't imagine for a moment that she was capable of some of the crimes. she looked like she would be down at the bingo or somewhere. a recording of one of the police interviews with fred west was played to the court. the defence team hoping that hearing him described the murder of his daughter heather would convince the jury that he was the only guilty party. hejust came the only guilty party. he just came out in this real country accent. he wasjust so he was just so matter of fact when he was describing killing her and burying her under the house in his back garden. he could have been sort of

describing how he built a garden shed or whatever. it was amazing. from the evidence, mr levenson told thejury, you from the evidence, mr levenson told the jury, you can from the evidence, mr levenson told thejury, you can and ought to conclude that rosemary west intended that each of these girls should die, or at the very least should suffer serious bodily harm. in that context, in each case, she is guilty of murder. and after a 31 day trial, the jury agreed that rose west was guilty as charged. rosemary west has been can beat that of ten of the most horrific murders in british criminal history. you will never be released, the judge said, if attention is paid to what i think. irememberone of think. i remember one of my colleagues who came down at the end of the trial to cover the verdict, he had nightmares that rose west was coming up to him. counselling was offered because we we re

counselling was offered because we were able to get glimpses of some of the pictures that have been taken inside 25 cromwell st, and everyone just said it was part and parcel of the work, make sure we do a good job. 0bviously job. obviously it was a part of your professional life. do you still think about it now, and what crosses your mind? ido your mind? i do wonder about their children in particular and i have often wondered what happened to them and i do hope that they somehow managed to have happy lives. luthi partington was a young woman with a promising future. she was 21 and in herfinalyearat with a promising future. she was 21 and in herfinal year at exeter university. but then she disappeared during the christmas holidays in 1973. for two decades herfamily had no idea of her whereabouts until the

police discovered her remains at 25 cromwell st —— lucy. her sister marion has been on an extraordinary journey to come to terms with what happened. it was the 27th of december, so it was just two days after christmas. and we all went out that evening to different places. apra three went to visit her friend different places. apra three went to visit herfriend helen, i was different places. apra three went to visit her friend helen, i was with my boyfriend patrick and we went to visit friends and we actually stayed the night there. and when we came back the next day, my mum sort of rushed out of the house and she said, lucy didn't come home last night. my my mum had presumed she had got the last bus home and gone to bed as she

would have done, and then she had gone to wake up the next morning and she wasn't there. none of us could think as the police actually thought when we first told them, you know, just a young person gone off with her boyfriend for the night. we knew that lucy wouldn't put us in that situation. we all felt that something huge had happened. but! could never imagine that she had been killed. we grew up in the cotswolds. i was the bossy older sister and she was the bossy older sister and she was the younger sister getting on with her own life. one of her friends at the memorial service we had for her described her as indelible. she made

a mark on people, she touched people's lives. but just a mark on people, she touched people's lives. butjust through her intelligence, really. we were lucky enough to have a pony that lived in a field on our friend's farm. 0ne that lived in a field on our friend's farm. one day she went into that field and she walked around the field gathering wool from the hedges and she brought this will home and she made a little bag and gave it to me. i still have the bag now. it is something tangible about the kind of person lucy was. it feels gentle in its making, it is soft, it is kindly. she was only eight when she may be. she gave it to me as a gesture of love, and when i look at that, i still remember that. i was given this stream and in the

dreamer lucy came back and i said to her, "well, where have you been?" she said, "i have been sitting in a water meadow." and then she said the words, if you sit very still you can hear the sun that move. 0ver words, if you sit very still you can hear the sun that move. over the 20 yea rs of hear the sun that move. over the 20 years of what happened to her —— of not knowing what happened to her, i did not know she was dead alive. and of thinking if this is how she is it doesn't matter if she is dead or alive. but it was worse than our worst imaginings. the news was coming on about bodies being dug up in cromwell street. and we already have a sense this could be something to do with lucy. and i remembered saying my mum, "i think it's going to be better to than not to know." and she said, "i'm not so sure about that."

toomey, the most difficult about her suffering was the fact that she was gagged so that she didn't have a voice, she couldn't speak the words, she couldn't use the boys. —— to me. and i think that compelled me to find my voice. lousi's life was sacred and they need it to reclaim her as a person, as my sister, from what happens. and then it came to me that the only way out of this was to move towards forgiveness, but i had no idea what that could mean or how that could be possible. but i made a vow that could be possible. but i made a vow to try to be given the wests. the first thing i experienced was murderous rage. so i realised that

this is the beginning of myjourney towards forgiveness. and in that experience i knew that i was capable of killing. i have details about rosemary west's childhood, the violence in the families, the neglect, the abuse, and trying to imagine what it would be like to grow up with very little love. i can't see how there can be any crawl actions that would not have a roots in something else, something that has happened in summary‘s life. but people will always say that is not an excuse. i say very clearly, i don't forgive the wests for what they did, but i forgive them as people for whom there didn't seem to be another way of living. in 2004 i

was invited to contribute to the forgiveness project. marina is a journalist and she was collecting stories that might be inspiring to other people and bring hope. lovely to see you. when you described how you saw rosemary west in court, the broken spirit, and how you were able to have a connection with that, it makes sense. it is not about giving the act, but it is about for giving, ina way, the act, but it is about for giving, in a way, the frailty of humanity, of which are rosemary west is a part. and i've understood that. and i've understood how part of your restoration and healing has been able to find meaning and something which has been so utterly senseless. this crime had never been really addressed within this community.

there was no memorial, no honouring of the people who died. there was just the, really, sticky story of the wests‘ lives that was picked up by tabloid newspapers. there must be a loss of unresolved, unspoken experience in the community of gloucester. but then you get to this whole question of whether it‘s better to say less, soonest mended, or whether it is better to speak? that is a very big question that i have asked myself a lot. yes. what happens to the individual also happens to the individual also happens to the individual also happens to be community. it's 35 yea rs happens to be community. it's 35 years since the first bodies were dug up in the garden of 25 cromwell stand, dug up in the garden of 25 cromwell st and, over that time, the way that

i have found forward has been very helpful to me. this may not be helpful to me. this may not be helpful to me. this may not be helpful to anyone else. but my experience with the forgiveness project is that it is the saddest most painful thing is to carry an u ntold most painful thing is to carry an untold story. lucy‘s body was hidden for so long, ifelt like untold story. lucy‘s body was hidden for so long, i felt like whatever i did for the rest of my life it could not be about hiding things, because ijust not be about hiding things, because i just knew how not be about hiding things, because ijust knew how unhealthy that not be about hiding things, because i just knew how unhealthy that was. is gloucester carrying an untold story, and had as a community comes to —— come to terms with events as sinister as these? i have brought together a group of people to talk about how this city has dealt with its uncomfortable past. tony butler was gloucestershire‘s chief co nsta ble was gloucestershire‘s chief

constable during the fred and rose west investigation. canon adrian slade worked with the local community in the aftermath of the crimes. benedict allen is born and bred in the city and is a student at the university of gloucestershire. and dame janet trotter is the university of gloucestershire. and damejanet trotter is a former lord—lieutena nt of the and damejanet trotter is a former lord—lieutenant of the county. dame janet, should there be a memorial for the victims of fred and rose west? there is the physical bit. so what do you do in this place where unspeakable horror has taken place? here they totally knocked the house down. they have made some gardens. and, i suppose, down. they have made some gardens. and, isuppose, i had rather thought there might be something else that might have been more a statement of healing, of what this was about, and a reflection by the city... the city council made a conscious decision, there were lots of plans for that hearing, or one of which was a memorial garden, and they decided

that they did not want to have a remembrance. they didn't want ghoulish tourists. they did not want ghoulish tourists. they did not want ghoulish tourists. they did not want ghoulish tourists. and if you go to auschwitz that is what you get.|j thinkjust making auschwitz that is what you get.|j think just making a auschwitz that is what you get.|j thinkjust making a plain walkway is, i think, thinkjust making a plain walkway is, ithink, the best way. if they made it too much of a memorial, i think that could re— traumatise the families of the people. you were working closely with the community at the time, what kind of impact did it have on them? there was a loss of grief, a loss of feeling of we should have known, ithink grief, a loss of feeling of we should have known, i think a lot of people were anxious that what happened with fred rest and rosemary was something they should have been on top of. and i think that feeling of grief and anger and sadness penetrated into the hull city. i think the city was deeply traumatised. it certainly left a mark on the constabulary. i think the nature of the crimes, the brutality of these murders, and the

numberof them, this brutality of these murders, and the number of them, this was a case of young women, their lives were just snuffed out. it sounds like, at that point, lost and innocence about is that true? the happy couple next door could be the happy murderers? the night that we arrested fred the tv crews were in an cromwell street. and i remembered on the points west news, neighbours saying that the police have got this all wrong, fred andrew is, lovely family couple, lovely fa m ily andrew is, lovely family couple, lovely family people. and they clearly weren't. i think the reflection i have on this, and another bit of the legacy, is that most of the public services were actually operating in silos. so you got the children going to school, not doing pe because they would have had bruises in various parts of their body, they were turning up at

emergency departments, there was police, and none of these came together to share information. and i think one of the really good things is that all of those services, under safeguarding arrangements, are now morejoined up. safeguarding arrangements, are now more joined up. there were some gaps. but also wit was clear, the investigation demonstrated, how clever they were at avoiding it. they took the children to different hospitals. they employ tactics to avoid detection. it was an aberration. let's not blame the city we re two aberration. let's not blame the city were two people. as dame janet said, were two people. as dame janet said, we learned some lessons as organisations working to protect children. it is difficult to say it isa children. it is difficult to say it is a better place for it. think some good things came out of it. is a better place for it. think some good things came out of itm is a better place for it. think some good things came out of it. it is one of those cases were sadly i think a line can never be drawn under it. people of my sort of age are probably aware of fred and rose west. they properly don't know much about it. i think gloucester went through a period of mourning. and i think it has got through it. i think it has come out the other side.

gloucester is a nice place to be, on the whole. every city has got dark shadows. every family has dark shadows, every person has dark shadows. so each of us has responsibility to look out for our children, our community‘s children. and that‘s one of the things all of us must be active in doing. gloucester and 25 cromwell st will forever be associated with dread and rose west. and just like marion partington has done for her sister, lucy, the city has had to reclaim an identity for itself beyond those grisly crimes. and 25 years on that is still a work in progress.

hello. we have already had one area of low pressure affecting the uk this weekend. there is another on the way for sunday. the first eases away from northern scotland during sunday. here comes the second rapidly deepening area of low pressure, coming right out of storm freya, and things will be turning stormy across parts of england and wales in particular, later on sunday. that said, it‘s a very windy start to sunday. northern scotland, from still that first area of low pressure, some gusts up to around 70 miles an hour and plenty of heavy showers moving in. a cooler start for many of us, milder in southern england and outbreaks of rain. during sunday, heavy showers and very strong winds in northern scotland are going to ease. to the south, we see the rain pushing north across more of england and wales as we go through the day,

eventually into parts of northern ireland and southern scotland. you can see a bit of hill snow as well in the northern highlands, the pennines and uplands. it clears away as we go through sunday night and monday morning, do not be surprised by that. still fairly mild into the south but then again, the wind is becoming more significant as we go further into the day. these black arrows indicating some of the wind gusts we are going to see as the day goes on, they are getting stronger late in the day. initially in parts of wales in the west of england, feeling the force of these isobars. the strongest swathe of winds from freya as we go into the later stages of the afternoon and evening. let‘s take a look at that. some gusts around 60 to 70 miles an hour. maybe some of the coasts of wales up to around 80 miles an hour for a time, the very strongest gusts. we could see gusts elsewhere of 60—65 miles an hour, a hint of hill snow, as we go into monday, those winds will gradually ease. but there could well be some damage and some disruption, so it‘s worth keeping in touch

with the travel situation near you as we go through sunday night, but i think especially before you head out on monday morning. a slight improvement on monday, it will still be very windy as the day begins across eastern parts of the uk in particular, we‘re going to push away the early rain here. then for many of us, there‘ll be some sunshine, a few showers start to push in from the west during the day. it stays quite breezy, it‘s just a gradual improvement in terms of the strongest winds easing down. it will be a cooler feeling day though. that‘s a sign of things to come as we go through the week. temperatures lower compared with last week. sun and showers to start the week, it looks like another spell of wind and rain will be coming our way mid week. that‘s your latest forecast. gesture of love, and when i look at that, i still remember that.

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