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Article: Rosemary West guilty of three murders

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November 22, 1995
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WILL BENNETT

Rosemary West showed no emotion yesterday as she was convicted of three murders, one of them the killing of her eldest daughter, Heather.

The jury at Winchester Crown Court was unable to reach a verdict on the seven other murders with which she is charged and spent their second night in a hotel. They will resume their deliberations this morning on the alleged murders of seven young women who, the prosecution say were tied up, gagged, stripped and sexually abused at the Wests' home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

The murders which Rosemary West, 41, was convicted of yesterday were those of Heather West, her daughter, Charmaine West, her husband Frederick's step-daughter from ...

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