Overview

• Richards, now 65, lived at 25 Cromwell Street with her sister from November 1977 to January 1979 as a lodger.
• She alleges Fred West inappropriately touched her and describes feeling shame that obscured the danger at the time.
• She left the house with her sister and nephew in January 1979 and realized the gravity of that escape when the couple were arrested in 1992.
• Her memoir, Under Their Roof, recounts those experiences, a story she says she finally wrote after encouragement from her daughter.
• Fred West died in prison in 1995 and Rose West is serving a whole-life order at HMP New Hall’s Rivendell House unit, with authorities attributing at least 12 murders to the pair.