Article: SHIPMAN'S SILENT WITNESS; Any day now we will learn the full toll of Harold Shipman's murderous reign, during which his wife Primrose remained resolutely at his side. The Mail commissioned Fred West's biographer to probe into her mind. This is his compelling report...

Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL

FROM the outside, it looks like a witch's house in a terrifying fairy tale: a grimy, cramped brick cottage barely 10ft from a dual carriageway in Yorkshire. The garden is overgrown with weeds, and the peeling brown front door is all but impossible to reach through the untrimmed ivy that hangs around it.

Grim and foreboding, it's not the sort of place that welcomes visitors.

But the inhabitant of this ugly little house two miles from Wetherby, is not anxious to see anyone. Nor does she want the world to see her.

For she is one of the most notorious women in Britain: Primrose Shipman, wife of the man to be

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