Rose West 'can barely walk' and has no friends, insiders have said as new details of her lonely life behind bars have been revealed.

West, now 71, and husband Fred raped, tortured and killed at least 12 women and girls at their home from 1967 to 1987. But their stomach-churning crimes didn't come to light until 1992 when daughter Louise, then just 13, accused Fred of rape and Rose of cruelty.

That case collapsed after eldest daughter Anne Marie - abused from age eight - refused to testify, but what the children told police set alarm bells ringing. Officers launched a huge investigation after learning the kids were constantly threatened with being buried 'under the patio like their sister Heather', who had vanished five years earlier.

The full horror was soon uncovered, their younges

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