"After the 17-year-old was kicked out of the family home, she found lodgings with serial killers Fred and Rose West. Here, she talks about growing up in poverty in Dolphin's Barn in the 1960s, her two-year stay in 25 Cromwell Street and the abuse she experienced there at the hands of serial killers Fred and Rose West"
""The stench was so intense, I could almost see it rising off him, like steam," the Dubliner writes in her new memoir, Under Their Roof. "It was as if he had rolled in muck; as though he had something dead and rotting hidden under his clothes.""
"The "vile, feral" odour that emanated from serial killer Fred West was one that she cannot forget, even almost five decades on."
Kathleen Richards grew up in poverty in Dolphin's Barn during the 1960s. At 17 she was kicked out of the family home and took lodgings with Fred and Rose West. She spent two years at 25 Cromwell Street and experienced abuse at their hands. Fred West carried a persistent, offensive odour described as vile and feral. The stench was so intense it seemed to rise off him, as if he had rolled in muck or concealed something dead and rotting under his clothes. The memories remain vivid decades later.
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