Dublin Lodger Who Escaped Fred and Rose West Breaks Silence Decades Later

Dublin lodger who escaped Fred and Rose West breaks silence decades later

Irish woman Kathleen Richards has told how she unknowingly lived with Fred and Rose West at 25 Cromwell Street in the late 1970s, before narrowly escaping the serial killers' house of horrors.

I was Fred West's lodger and he murdered my best friend - it should have been me

In 1977, 17-year-old Caroline Roberts moved into 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester with her sister and baby nephew. She was horrified to discover her best friend was also living there - and then she disappeared

Irish lodger who escaped killers Fred and Rose West breaks silence decades later

Irish woman Kathleen Richards has told how she unknowingly lived with Fred and Rose West at 25 Cromwell Street in the late 1970s, before narrowly escaping the serial killers' house of horrors.

Lodger says crumpled up newspaper on bedroom floor gave clue to Fred West's e...

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she lodged at 25 Cromwell Street. As she publishes a spine-chilling memoir about surviving the so-called ‘House of Horrors', she reflects on almost becoming another victim of the sadistic couple