The son of Fred and Rose West died of a painkiller overdose after telling a doctor his life was 'not worth living,' an inquest heard.
Barry West was just seven when he watched his parents beat his sister Heather to death at their Cromwell Street home in Gloucester.
He died at the age of 40 on August 28 last year after being found slumped over a table at his supported living accommodation in Maidstone, Kent.
An inquest into his death this week heard how Mr West, who was too scared to give evidence at his mother's 1995 trial, had a 'complex medical history'.
It was said he tried to commit suicide in 2015, and that he had taken 'many overdoses' alongside suffering from PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain.
Mr West also struggled with dissociative identity disorder, in which people may feel the presence of other identities with their own names, voices and mannerisms.
Coroner Patricia Harding, sitting at Maidstone Coroner's Court, heard how Mr West felt 'abandoned' by the NHS and died after injecting himself with pain relieving medication.
Fred West killed himself in prison in 1995 while awaiting trial on 12 murder charges. His wife, 67, was sentenced to life in jail without parole for ten murders.
The couple killed West's step-daughter Charmaine, as well as Heather.
Barry's bedroom had been in the soundproofed cellar at 25 Cromwell Street, and, as the only other son apart from older brother Stephen, he had been close to his father.
In an interview in 2002, Barry gave a harrowing account of life inside the House of Horrors and recalled a June night in 1987 when Heather came home late to face the wrath of his parents.
'It was about 3am when I heard Heather coming in,' he said. 'I heard my dad shouting, 'Where have you been? We've been waiting for you.'
'I heard my mum slap her, then I looked through the crack and saw my dad walk round behind her and put his leg out. Then he grabbed her neck and tripped her over.
'She went on to the floor. I could see her just a few feet away. Then my mum just booted her. She was kicking and kicking her and calling her a slag. My dad still had her by the throat.
'Then, when he tried to get her to do things to him, she refused. I think that's why she ended up dead.'
After 15 minutes, Rose 'rubbed her hands together' and said: 'Right, let's clear this up.'
Barry said: 'I could hear my dad wrapping her in some plastic and I could see my mum scrubbing the floor with a bucket and brush.
'There was some white bubbly stuff which must have been soap.
'Mum was telling him to hurry up and he asked her to help him, but she said, 'I can't. I've got to get rid of this before the kids get up.' '
Barry and his siblings were later told Heather had gone to university. Of his mother, an inmate at HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire, Barry said: 'She's a psychopath.
'I was happy when my dad committed suicide and now I think they should put my mum in a room with all the parents of the people she helped murder so they could tear her to pieces.'
Digger said
Apr 15 11:30 PM, 2021
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
John Doe said
Apr 15 11:53 PM, 2021
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Syl said
Apr 16 12:13 AM, 2021
He didn't really have a hope of living a normal life after such a horrendous childhood.
Anonymous said
Apr 16 11:10 AM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
John Doe said
Apr 16 6:16 PM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
Anonymous said
Apr 17 11:30 AM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
I’m perfectly aware she had a relationship with Hindley whilst in Durham. All prisoners are basically well fed and reasonably treated. I’m curious as to why you state “the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside”. How do you know she is treated better than everyone else who are banged up, or are you just making up shit as usual?
Anonymous said
Apr 17 11:52 AM, 2021
I never followed the story, just saw the headlines. I always wonder whether the wife, in this case Rose West, was also a sort of victim, blindly following and indulging the man (Fred West), being completely under his spell. I assume Fred West was the monster and Rose was just the brainwashed acolyte, like what you have around a cult figure. In America there was a crazy man called Charles Manson and women bought into his cult.
John Doe said
Apr 17 7:30 PM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
I’m perfectly aware she had a relationship with Hindley whilst in Durham. All prisoners are basically well fed and reasonably treated. I’m curious as to why you state “the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside”. How do you know she is treated better than everyone else who are banged up, or are you just making up shit as usual?
So you are using a thread like this to have yet another cheap dig from the safety of anonymity - well done.
Anonymous said
Apr 17 8:12 PM, 2021
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
I’m perfectly aware she had a relationship with Hindley whilst in Durham. All prisoners are basically well fed and reasonably treated. I’m curious as to why you state “the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside”. How do you know she is treated better than everyone else who are banged up, or are you just making up shit as usual?
So you are using a thread like this to have yet another cheap dig from the safety of anonymity - well done.
Looks to me like you are using the old, boring “cheap dig” mantra as a means of not backing up your high and mighty statements.
John Doe said
Apr 18 8:29 PM, 2021
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Digger wrote:
What a sad and tragic story. That poor kid. And that poor man.
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
I’m perfectly aware she had a relationship with Hindley whilst in Durham. All prisoners are basically well fed and reasonably treated. I’m curious as to why you state “the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside”. How do you know she is treated better than everyone else who are banged up, or are you just making up shit as usual?
So you are using a thread like this to have yet another cheap dig from the safety of anonymity - well done.
Looks to me like you are using the old, boring “cheap dig” mantra as a means of not backing up your high and mighty statements.
Whatever grudge you have against me why not let it go?
Or join as a member so the discussion is on an equal footing, not just you anonymously sniping from the sidelines
Anonymous said
Apr 19 7:34 AM, 2021
So you have no evidence to back up your bloviating rant then? Ok.
Syl said
Apr 19 4:40 PM, 2021
No one can have actual evidence unless they work in or are an inmate serving time in the same place as West. There has been plenty of news coverage over the years on how easy she has it in prison....whether you believe that or not is up to you. JD's opinion is obviously that there is some truth to it. Mine too actually.
The son of Fred and Rose West died of a painkiller overdose after telling a doctor his life was 'not worth living,' an inquest heard.
Barry West was just seven when he watched his parents beat his sister Heather to death at their Cromwell Street home in Gloucester.
He died at the age of 40 on August 28 last year after being found slumped over a table at his supported living accommodation in Maidstone, Kent.
An inquest into his death this week heard how Mr West, who was too scared to give evidence at his mother's 1995 trial, had a 'complex medical history'.
It was said he tried to commit suicide in 2015, and that he had taken 'many overdoses' alongside suffering from PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain.
Mr West also struggled with dissociative identity disorder, in which people may feel the presence of other identities with their own names, voices and mannerisms.
Coroner Patricia Harding, sitting at Maidstone Coroner's Court, heard how Mr West felt 'abandoned' by the NHS and died after injecting himself with pain relieving medication.
Fred West killed himself in prison in 1995 while awaiting trial on 12 murder charges. His wife, 67, was sentenced to life in jail without parole for ten murders.
The couple killed West's step-daughter Charmaine, as well as Heather.
Barry's bedroom had been in the soundproofed cellar at 25 Cromwell Street, and, as the only other son apart from older brother Stephen, he had been close to his father.
In an interview in 2002, Barry gave a harrowing account of life inside the House of Horrors and recalled a June night in 1987 when Heather came home late to face the wrath of his parents.
'It was about 3am when I heard Heather coming in,' he said. 'I heard my dad shouting, 'Where have you been? We've been waiting for you.'
'I heard my mum slap her, then I looked through the crack and saw my dad walk round behind her and put his leg out. Then he grabbed her neck and tripped her over.
'She went on to the floor. I could see her just a few feet away. Then my mum just booted her. She was kicking and kicking her and calling her a slag. My dad still had her by the throat.
'Then, when he tried to get her to do things to him, she refused. I think that's why she ended up dead.'
After 15 minutes, Rose 'rubbed her hands together' and said: 'Right, let's clear this up.'
Barry said: 'I could hear my dad wrapping her in some plastic and I could see my mum scrubbing the floor with a bucket and brush.
'There was some white bubbly stuff which must have been soap.
'Mum was telling him to hurry up and he asked her to help him, but she said, 'I can't. I've got to get rid of this before the kids get up.' '
Barry and his siblings were later told Heather had gone to university. Of his mother, an inmate at HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire, Barry said: 'She's a psychopath.
'I was happy when my dad committed suicide and now I think they should put my mum in a room with all the parents of the people she helped murder so they could tear her to pieces.'
I agree with his last sentence - the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside - it makes me puke.
Link?
It's well known she and Myra Hindley had a sexual relationship and whilst doing so manipulated both officers and inmates to their advantage - she still does.
She is well fed and well treated - unlike her poor victims.
Look it up yourself.
-- Edited by John Doe on Friday 16th of April 2021 06:17:13 PM
I’m perfectly aware she had a relationship with Hindley whilst in Durham. All prisoners are basically well fed and reasonably treated. I’m curious as to why you state “the twisted bitch is looked after like a fucking Queen inside”. How do you know she is treated better than everyone else who are banged up, or are you just making up shit as usual?
I never followed the story, just saw the headlines. I always wonder whether the wife, in this case Rose West, was also a sort of victim, blindly following and indulging the man (Fred West), being completely under his spell. I assume Fred West was the monster and Rose was just the brainwashed acolyte, like what you have around a cult figure. In America there was a crazy man called Charles Manson and women bought into his cult.
So you are using a thread like this to have yet another cheap dig from the safety of anonymity - well done.
Looks to me like you are using the old, boring “cheap dig” mantra as a means of not backing up your high and mighty statements.
Whatever grudge you have against me why not let it go?
Or join as a member so the discussion is on an equal footing, not just you anonymously sniping from the sidelines
So you have no evidence to back up your bloviating rant then? Ok.
No one can have actual evidence unless they work in or are an inmate serving time in the same place as West.
There has been plenty of news coverage over the years on how easy she has it in prison....whether you believe that or not is up to you.
JD's opinion is obviously that there is some truth to it.
Mine too actually.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/rose-west-now-name-change-23747924
-- Edited by Syl on Monday 19th of April 2021 04:41:38 PM
Why don't you simply fuck off for good?
What sad a person to stalk someone anonymously on a very small forum - I don't even know who you are.
Guest posting is allowed on here. Commenting on your posts is not stalking. Nice try though.
True.
But people who join here (if they are allowed to) get more respect than Anons who could just be posting to cause trouble, that stands to reason.