Charles Bronson ‘told Rose West to hang herself after she sent him love letter from prison’

NOTORIOUS criminal Charles Bronson has claimed he told child killer Rose West to commit suicide after she sent him a love letter from behind bars.

The Sunday People reports 63-year-old West wrote to Bronson seeking advice on surviving her sentence.

But Bronson, now known as Charles Salvador, says he responded with a postcard telling West to hang herself.

Speaking on the phone from HMP Wakefield, Bronson said: “Rose West sent me a letter that was like a f*****g love letter.

"That’s when she was on the lifers’ wing in Durham.

"I said to the guard, ‘Give it to me’ and he said, ‘I don’t know if you’ll want this, Chaz, it’s off Rose West.’

“I sent her a card, a postcard. On the bottom of it I put, ‘PS. The best thing you can do, Rose, is rip your sheets up and call it a day’.”

The 64-year-old hardman, who has spent 43 years in prison, also claims he shouted through the cell door of Rose's husband Fred West every day when they were on the same wing — encouraging the killer to commit suicide.

West did hang himself in 1995 in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison, shortly after Bronson was moved to another jail.

During the phone call with new fiancee Paula Williamson, Bronson, whose original sentence has been repeatedly extended due to violence on the inside, insisted he is no longer violent — adding he misses swimming and diving.

He also slammed modern-day criminals, saying: “Years ago you used to have proper convicts, men of morals.

"Now they’re all on drugs. It’s sad really.”

After the phone call, Paula, who got engaged on Valentine's Day, told the Sunday People: “[Rose] was clearly attracted to what she sees as a violent man, but my Charlie couldn’t be more different from her husband.

"He was disgusted to hear from her.”