‘Lonely' Rose West gifting vapes to make friends in prison
Rose West is trying to gift fellow inmates vapes to make friends in prison, a source has claimed.
The serial killer has been in jail for nearly 30 years following her conviction for her role in the rape, torture and murder of at least 12 women and girls.
In a case which horrified the British public, West and her husband, Fred, were found to have even killed her daughter Heather, 16, as well as her eight-year-old stepdaughter, Charmaine.
Despite her changing her name, fellow inmates know of her crimes. As a result, they refuse to associate with her and she spends most of her days in her prison cell, knitting and talking to her television, according to The Sun.
'No one talks to her because everyone knows what she did,' the prison source told the paper.
'She's in a disabled room now as she can barely walk.
'She never really leaves the wing she's held on and is escorted all the time by prison officers if she goes anywhere.'
Rose now calls herself Jennifer Jones after changing her name by deed poll in 2020.
But the source added: 'No one talks to her because everyone knows who she is and what she did, even if she changed her name.
'When I was there, she tried to make friends with the other women and gave them gifts, like vapes, but she was rejected.'
She is said to enjoy watching nature documentaries in her cell, knitting or growing vegetables at the women-only HMP New Hall, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
West, now aged 71, will die in prison after Jack Straw, the former home secretary, imposed a whole life tariff on the serial killer in 1997.
The remains of nine of Rose West's victims – Lynda Gough, 19, Carole Ann Cooper, 15, Lucy Partington, 21, Therese Sigenthaler, 21, Shirley Hubbard, 15, Juanita Mott, 18, Shirley Ann Robinson, 18, and Alison Chambers, 17 – were found buried at the couple's home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester in 1994.
It was only the second time the tariff had been used on a female prisoner after serial killer Myra Hindley in 1990, who West would later go on to have a romantic relationship with while at Durham Prison.
The serial killer, who has never shown remorse at any point during her incarceration, reportedly enjoys going to the prison's chapel.
She has never divulged her secrets about the murders although experts think there could be as many as 30 further victims.
Earlier this month, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story was released on Netflix looking into the killings.
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