Overview

• Howard Sounes has begun serialising over 100 hours of Fred West’s previously unpublished police interviews in The Fred West Tapes
• Barry West’s first public interviews describe daily beatings by Rose West and detail the use of torture contraptions at 25 Cromwell Street
• Barry West recounts his attempt to kill his father with a screwdriver at age eleven and Fred West’s mocking response
• New disclosures explain how victims like 15-year-old Shirley Hubbard were tortured alive, including having their faces encased in parcel tape to muffle screams
• Netflix’s Fred & Rose West documentary and these new testimonies have spurred Gloucester investigators to reopen probes into possible undiscovered victims