63 m. ago Is Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story based on a true story? Netflix documentary explained

Netflix has released a limited series about Fred and Rose West 📺

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1 hour ago Rose West's life now from royal treatment to Myra Hindley 'romance'

As Netflix viewers tune into shocking new docuseries Fred and Rose: The West Murders, the Mirror takes a look at what the life of Britain's most reviled woman looks like now

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2 h. ago Where are Fred and Rose West's children now? The painfully sad truth about what happened to those who survived the House of Horror

Between 1967 and 1987, the depraved couple tortured, raped, and murdered at least 12 young women - including two of their own children - in Gloucester.

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3 h. ago Fred West's horrifying six final words to killer wife Rose in chilling letter

A new Netflix documentary, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, will delve into the gruesome killings of the twisted pair and how their horrifying crimes were finally uncovered

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4 h. ago Fred and Rose West: A British Horror story is lazy, cynical and misleading true

New documentary feels cheap as chips and leaves out a crucial figure in the case. The only part of it worth watching is the testimony from the victims’ older sisters

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4 h. ago Inside Netflix’s Fred and Rose West documentary: ‘There are huge, huge lessons here’

The director of the streamer’s latest ‘A British Horror Story’ series tells Ellie Harrison why he agreed to make a show about the husband-and-wife serial killers – and how he wanted to challenge the traditional true-crime audience

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5 h. ago Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story review – this sordid series doesn’t even reveal the worst of it

The case of the serial killer couple is so harrowing that everyone involved is still haunted to this day. But is there really any point in making them recall these hideous crimes? And why have crucial details been omitted?Another day, another addition to the “point and gasp” school of true crime documentaries; one which adds nothing to our understanding of a terrible crime or of those who committed it, nothing to our safety as individuals or as a society, nothing except our appetite for voyeurism and the normalisation of it. Most true crime documentaries are in this school. Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story is no exception. Perhaps the sordid, exploitative aspects of the genre are felt more strongly here precisely because it is one of our own stories, and one many of us remember reading about in the papers and seeing on the news as the awful discoveries were made at the time. Usually we watch these films at one remove. We can at least feel we are learning about how terrib...

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6 h. ago Erin Patterson murder trial live: ‘probably impossible’ for death cap mushrooms to come from supermarket as they cannot be cultivated, expert tells trial

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha. Follow live updatesKey figures in the mushroom lunch trialLawyer Sophie Stafford asks Dr Thomas May about incidents involving death cap mushroom poisoning.She points to a poisoning that was a subject of a Victorian coroner’s report from May 2024. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Erin Patterson murder trial live: witnesses continue to give evidence on day 11 of the alleged mushroom murder case

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha. Follow live updatesKey figures in the mushroom lunch trialDr Thomas May began giving his evidence yesterday, telling the court that:death cap mushrooms were most commonly reported in Maythere had been three known sightings of death cap mushrooms in the Gippsland regionthe “citizen science” website iNaturalist is often used to report sightingsa smooth capa white stem which usually has a visible ringwhite gills Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Menendez brothers resentenced for 1989 murders of parents in Beverly Hills mansion: Live

A judge will decide if Lyle and Erik Menendez should be freed after 30 years in prison

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17 h. ago Who were Fred and Rose West's 12 victims? The women who lost their lives at the hands of Britain's worst serial killers

Fred and Rose West murdered at least 12 women and girls between the late 1960s and 1987, so who are they? Read on to find out about the women who tragically lost their lives...

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19 h. ago ‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’

Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to its limitDez Chambers waited 15 years to get the news she didn’t want. All that time, she thought her missing little sister, Alison, might still be out there. Dez would watch documentaries about homelessness to see if perhaps she’d recognise a face, and even attempted the Salvation Army’s family tracing service. “It was hope,” she says from her home in the Netherlands.Hope faded one day in 1994. Calling her from the UK, Dez’s mother-in-law cried down the phone. There was panic, there was confusion, “so I had to ask her. And then she said it was in the papers that the remains had been identified as Alison.” Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Housing association's RAAC teams in place as West Lothian tenants prepare to be decanted to allow work

Work is expected to take around seven days for each affected property

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21 h. ago Who were the murderous couple behind the Gloucester's 'House of Horrors'? How sick Fred West grew up raping his sister before going on to marry his partner

A new Netflix true crime series is set to stream on the platform tomorrow, titled Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story. But who were the infamous serial killing couple?

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21 h. ago Fred West's allotment could contain victims and is buried under quiet street

A new Netflix documentary, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, will be released next month and will feature footage of the police officers who led the investigation

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22 h. ago Fred West's horrifying last wish laid bare in chilling letter to Rose

Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, will feature unseen police videos and recordings as well as family members of the victims speaking out on the 30th anniversary of Rose's conviction

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27 h. ago Fred West's horrifying last wish exposed in final letter to killer wife Rose

News Netflix documentary Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story looks at previously unseen police video footage and audio

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27 h. ago Fred West's Glasgow allotment could contain victims and is buried under quiet street

A new Netflix documentary will shed more light on Fred and Rose West's horrifying crimes

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28 h. ago Erin Patterson murder trial live: fungi expert says death cap mushrooms have been mistaken for edible ones in past

Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to a beef wellington lunch she served at her house in Leongatha. Follow live updatesDr Laura Muldoon says she received the image from Dr Veronica Foote at Leongatha hospital on 31 July.The photos show a pastry encasing a brown paste. There are also leftovers of the brown paste in the photo.Dried dehydrated mushrooms, possibly shiitake or porcini ... she stated she purchased them from a Chinese grocery store in Oakleigh or Glen Waverley.All her blood tests had come back and were normal and all her vitals were normal. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial LIVE updates: Fungi expert tells court disturbingly easy way death cap mushrooms can be found

Follow Daily Mail Australia's live coverage of accused mushroom chef Erin Patterson's murder trial here.

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