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Rosemary Pauline West (née Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of at least ten young women between 1973 and 1987; she also murdered her eight-year-old stepdaughter, Charmaine, in 1971. The majority of these murders took place at the West residence at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester. Rose is currently an inmate at New Hall Prison in Flockton, West Yorkshire, after being convicted in 1995 and sentenced to ten life terms with a whole life order. Fred died by suicide in prison that same year while awaiting trial, following the couple's arrest in 1994.