Who are Rose and Fred West’s children and what happened to them?
FRED and Rose West are known as one of Britain's most notorious couples, having committed some of the most heinous crimes in British history.
Police are still putting the pieces together of their vicious crimes, but the couple did begin a family during their twenty year rampage. Here's everything you need to know about their children...
Who are Fred and Rose West's children?
Rose was the mother of eight children, five of those children were fathered by Fred, while three were fathered by clients she met through her prostitution.
The couple were married in 1972 in Gloucester, against the wishes of Rose's family who were worried about her being with an older man.
At the time they met Rose was just 15-years-old and Fred was 28-years-old.
Mr West was married with another daughter, prior to meeting Rose, but they murdered his previous wife, Catherine 'Rena' Costello.
He also had a step-daughter, Catherine's eldest child Charmaine, who was killed by Rose.
He went on to have three other girls, Heather Ann, Mae June and Louise, with partner-in-crime Rose — plus two sons, Stephen and Barry.
Rose also had Tara, Rosemary Junior and Lucyanna by other men.
Tragically, Heather became the couple’s final murder victim in 1987.
Cops discovered the couple's house of horrors after Heather vanished at the age of 16.
Fred West confessed to 30 killings when he was eventually questioned by the authorities.
The couple told others that she had left the family home to accept a job in Torquay.
But the monstrous pair had strangled her and cut off her head. Her mutilated corpse was dug up at their Gloucester semi by police — who were stunned to find eight other bodies.
Stephen
Stephen is one of the son of serial killers Fred and Rose West.
He was born in 1973 and is the third child of the evil couple.
He is one of eight children who grew up in the house of horrors.
Stephen is twice-divorced and has a new partner and child.
Stephen, who was in his early 30s at the time, was jailed for nine months in January 2002 for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
The sex was apparently consensual, and conducted while Stephen was working as a builder.
The relationship was discovered after the child became pregnant and Stephen took her to a clinic for an abortion.
Anne Marie
Anne Marie was Fred's daughter, from his first marriage with Rena.
Rose raised her after the murders of her mother and her sister.
At the age of eight, she was gagged and raped by Fred with her step-mum actively encouraging the depraved actions of her father.
Her evil parents also forced to work as a prostitute in the house aged just 13 and subjected her to humiliating sexual acts, telling her clients that Anne Marie was 16.
Heather
Fred and Rose's eldest biological child, Heather, was subject to equally revolting treatment from her parents.
Fred molested both Heather and her younger sister Mae.
Heather “said she was going to run away”.
She was eventually murdered by her parents, who told the other kids that she had gone to live with a lesbian lover, but from time to time they would tell the other children if they spoke out or misbehaved they would "end up under the patio like Heather".
However, later on Fred admitted he had murdered her.
"I cut her legs off with that and I'm not telling you I have lived that a million times doing that since then and then I cut her head off and then I put her in the bin and put the lid on and rolled it down to the bottom of the garden behind the Wendy house," he told police.
Mae
Mae was forced to watch porn with her father and was raped by her uncle at only 5 years old.
Rose once scored Mae's chest with a kitchen knife after a disagreement.
Mae believed her murderous mother was innocent for a decade following her conviction.
She has recently opened up about growing up with serial killer parents in a book - and says she believes her parents could have had even more victims.
Tara
Tara was Rose's daughter, fathered to one of her clients.
Tara has said that unlike her siblings, she escaped abuse.
She says that her mother 'spoilt' her due to guilt about her parentage.
She said: "I realise now that Dad was only interested in his natural daughters. He thought they were his property. Because I wasn't his daughter he left me alone."
Louise
Louise was born in 1978.
She was the youngest daughter that Fred and Rose had together.
Police finally caught up with the Wests' crimes after Louise told a friend about things she had seen.
Barry
Barry was the youngest biological son of Rose and Fred.
He was born in 1980.
He revealed how when he was just seven-years-old he watched his mother “stamp” on his sister Heather’s head five times, adding: “She didn’t move again”.
He was found dead at a hostel in Maidstone, Kent in 2020.
It's suspected he may have died of an overdose after fighting a lengthy battle with drug addiction and severe mental health issues as a result of the abuse he suffered from his parents growing up.
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Rosemary Junior and Lucyanna
Rosemary Junior was born in 1982 and Lucyanna was born after her.
Their father is thought to be the same one of Rose's clients as Tara's father.
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