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THE HOUSE AT 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, England, is no longer there. In October 1996, the city council ordered the removal of all physical traces of the Wests’ home where young girls were raped, tortured and murdered by Fred and Rosemary during the 1970s. Fred had used his builder’s skills to conceal the bodies at the three-storey family home. First he buried them under the basement floor but when he ran out of space, he turned to the garden. His own sixteen-year-old daughter, Heather, was entombed under the newly laid patio. During the investigation, there was a rumour that some of the paving stones had been stolen from the crime scene. Unscrupulous locals had salvaged the slabs and an unwitting resident was now the proud owner of a barbecue made from the stones used to hide the horrors at Cromwell Street.1 Nick, a fifty-something landlord who owned other houses in the street, told me this rumour was a myth. He was there. The council had removed every last brick. These were crushed into dust and then scattered across a landfill site in unmarked locations.

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