On several occasions in the early days of their courtship, Rose insisted she and Fred take the girls on excursions to gather wildflowers.

Rose became a willing childminder to Fred's daughters, who she noted were neglected and whom she initially treated with care and affection. Shortly thereafter, Rose began a relationship with Fred, becoming a frequent visitor at the caravan park where he lived with the two children from his first marriage, daughter Anna Marie and stepdaughter Charmaine. Minutes later, Fred entered the premises and asked Rose to accompany him on a date that evening, an offer she accepted. Having discovered Rose worked in a nearby bread shop, a few days after their first encounter, Fred persuaded an unknown woman to enter the premises and present her with a gift accompanied by the explanation that a 'man outside' had asked her to present this gift to her. Rose twice refused to go on a date with Fred, but allowed him to accompany her home. Initially, Rose was repulsed by Fred's unkempt appearance and deduced he was a tramp, but she quickly became flattered by the attention he continued to lavish on her over the following days as he invariably sat alongside her at the same bus stop. The pair first met at Cheltenham bus station. Rose first encountered Fred West in early 1969, shortly after her 15th birthday he was 27. On numerous occasions, at the age of 13, she would also creep into nine-year-old Graham's bed at nightfall and molest him and her youngest brother Gordon. Īt the onset of puberty, Rose, reportedly fascinated by her developing body, would deliberately parade naked or semi-naked around the house in the presence of her younger brother, Graham (born 1957). She lived with her mother and attended Cleeve School for six months, later moving in with her father at the age of 16 in Bishop's Cleeve, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire her father, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, was prone to extreme violence and repeatedly sexually abused Rose and her oldest sister Patricia. Rose's parents separated when she was a teenager. Rose herself grew up into a moody and precocious teenager, prone to daydreaming and performing poorly at school. Daisy received her last session of ECT just days before Rose was born. Rose's mother suffered from depression and was given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while pregnant some have argued that this treatment may have caused prenatal injuries to her daughter. She was the fifth of seven children born into a poor family. Rosemary Letts was born in Northam, Devon, to William Andrew 'Bill' Letts (25 February 1921 – ) and Daisy Gwendoline Fuller (born 1919) after a difficult pregnancy.

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