Lawyer of Rose West calls on the notorious serial killer to finally tell the truth about murders
Serial killer Rose West still maintains her “total innocence” after spending 30 years behind bars for torturing and murdering at least nine young women with her husband Fred.
Now her own lawyer is urging the sadistic killer to finally confess, believing “there’s an awful lot” she knows but hasn’t revealed.
Leo Goatley, 67, who represented West for 12 years after she was first arrested with her husband in 1994, has told her to “seek redemption” by confessing, The Mirror reported.
West is serving ten life sentences at HM Prison New Hall, in Flocton, West Yorkshire, turning 70 in November.
Mr. Goatley regularly visited West in prison, but lost contact in recent years. He says she is now overweight, withdrawn and in poor health.
Rose West, pictured here in 1995, still maintains her ‘total innocence’ after 30 years behind bars, but her former lawyer is urging her to confess
Rose, along with husband Fred, killed at least 10 women and girls, including their eldest daughter Heather, 16
However, the lawyer still hopes that she will provide the families of the victims of the closure with new information, especially about the disappearance of Mary Bastholm, 15, in 1968.
Speak against The mirror, he said, ‘Fred hasn’t done much that she didn’t know about. If her inner journey has really gone anywhere since being in prison, there are things she should say to help her victims’ families.
“This general plea of total ignorance of everything that happened is just silly at this point.
“Also, she could very simply clarify if there are other victims that we don’t even know about.”
He’s sure; Still hiding details, West believes Fred West used her to get Mary into his car before killing her.
The killer is currently one of the few female prisoners in the UK serving a life sentence.
West and husband Fred kidnapped, tortured and raped innocent women over a 20-year period at their home in Cromwell Street, Gloucestershire, where they lived from 1972 until their arrest in 1994.
The lawyer still hopes she will provide the families of the closure victims with new information, particularly about the disappearance of Mary Bastholm (pictured), 15, in 1968
The couple even murdered their eldest daughter Heather in June 1987.
Fred, who confessed to the murders, committed suicide in his cell while on remand at HMP Birmingham on New Year’s Day 1995.
Other victims included Alison Chambers, 16, Shirley Robinson, 18, Juanita Mott, 18, Shirley Hubbard, 15, Theresa Siegnethaler, 21, Lucy Partington, 21, Carol Ann Cooper, 15, Lynda Gough, 19, Rena Costello (Fred’s ex- wife), 27, Charmaine West (Fred’s daughter), 8, and Anne McFall, 18.
It has long been suspected that they were linked to more murders, such as Mary Bastholm.
Mr Goatley added: ‘The way I feel is that whatever process she’s been through in prison, trying to project this image of a softer old lady means if she’s really gotten like that then she would like to find some kind of redemption.’