Overview

• Barry West’s posthumous interview, released in July 2025, offers the first detailed account of the abuses he and his siblings suffered during their parents’ two-decade murder spree.
• Rose West emerges as the primary abuser, locking her children in a cellar, beating them with a wooden spoon and enforcing humiliating dress codes to isolate and control them.
• The children were subjected to repeated rape, torture with improvised devices and coerced into sexual encounters with guests under Rose’s ‘Mandy’ alias as a prostitute.
• Barry’s lifelong struggle with mental health and substance use ended in a suspected overdose in 2020 at age 40, underscoring the enduring trauma inflicted by Fred and Rose West.
• Renewed interest from documentaries and survivor accounts has spurred fresh scrutiny of potential undiscovered victims and past police oversights at 25 Cromwell Street.