Serial killer Rose West, 72, is ‘on her last legs and can barely move’ as she is ‘prepared to die in jail cell’
Rose West, 72, is reported to have become so frail that she cannot move without help and is confined to her wing at HMP New Hall. The reported decline means the prison has made an emergency evacuation plan for her, while she remains subject to a whole-life sentence for murder.
West was convicted in 1995 of murdering 10 women and girls with her husband, Fred West, between 1971 and 1987; Fred died while awaiting trial. The article also recounts reports that she was disciplined earlier this year after an alleged assault on a younger inmate, and says she is held in a specialist unit at the West Yorkshire prison.
- Rose West is reportedly unable to move unaided.
- HMP New Hall has an emergency evacuation plan for her.
- She is serving a whole-life sentence for 10 murders.
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Rose West was convicted in 1995 of murdering 10 women and girls between 1971 and 1987, alongside her husband, Fred West. He died in prison before his trial; Rose West was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered never to be released.
She is held at HMP New Hall, a prison in West Yorkshire. Her case remains notable because of the number and circumstances of the murders, and because she is serving a whole-life sentence, meaning she is not eligible for release.