
Rose West has a new granddaughter as paedo son has baby with ex glamour model
Fred and Rose West's son Stephen has welcomed a baby daughter with his fiancée Emma Bradley - but his mother, who is serving a whole life order, won't meet the little girl
Rose West has become a grandmother again after her son had a baby with a former glamour model.
Stephen West and his fiancée Emma Bradley have welcomed a daughter named Eden, but 71-year-old Rose, who is serving a whole life order, will never see the baby after her son cut off all ties with his evil mother. Stephen and Emma got together despite concerns raised by her family members, given he was jailed in 2004 for seven counts of underage sex with a 14-year-old girl.
The 51-year-old, who grew up in his parents' house of horrors, once admitted: "There's a bit of my dad in me." His evil father, Fred West, was a serial killer who committed at least 12 murders between 1967 and 1987 - mostly with his second wife, Rose - in Gloucestershire. He was found dead in his prison cell in 1995.
Stephen's mother Rose, who has already spent nearly 30 years in prison, is said to have abandoned her attempts to appeal her conviction in 2001 and is understood to be resigned to dying behind bars. Now, sources have told The Sun that Stephen and Emma are planning to tie the knot in August at the Celtic Manor hotel in Newport.
However, an insider has claimed that none of Emma's relatives supports their union, saying Stephen makes them "uncomfortable" and adding this has created "a rift" in the family. Emma, a qualified nurse who works at Gloucester Royal Hospital, also has two daughters from a previous relationship.
Following reports that Rose is in ill health and has been moved to a disabled room in prison "because she can barely walk," Emma said she and her partner were unaware of it as they are not in contact. While admitting that she and Stephen have watched the new Netflix documentary Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, Emma said her fiancé "doesn't want to say anything because his main priority is the little ones."
She added: "He is adamant, at this time of his life he's got a young family to protect." Stephen, who is a grandad, has been married twice before and now has eight children.
Speaking about Rose's daily life in prison, a source told The Sun: "She never really leaves the wing she's held on and is escorted all the time by prison officers if she goes anywhere. Sometimes she sits in the communal areas on her own. No one talks to her because everyone knows who she is and what she did, even if she has 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 likes to watch nature documentaries on the TV in her cell, especially ones about birds."
In the hope of distancing herself from her evil crimes, West reportedly paid £36 to change her name to Jennifer Jones. It's understood she changed her name by deed poll in December last year and told friends it's her way of moving on. However, everyone knows her real identity at the women-only HMP New Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
Some inmates spurn her attempts at friendship, and she often eats tomato soup in her cell alone for breakfast, before spending most of her time in her cell knitting and talking to the TV, because she can barely walk.
West is now being held in a special unit at New Hall known as Rivendell House, where 30 prisoners each have an en-suite cell and are allocated a laptop which they can use to order food from. The communal areas are also said to be "more inviting" than other blocks in the prison, according to inspection reports.

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