Rose West has another grandchild after her son welcomed a baby with his fiancée, a former model.
Stephen West, 51, and Emma Bradley have had a baby daughter called Eden – though it is unlikely Rose will ever see the child, as her son has cut all ties with his mother.
Serial killer Rose, 71, is currently serving a life order in jail, after she and her husband Fred, Stephen’s father, tortured and murdered at least ten young women between 1973 and 1987.
She also killed her eight-year-old step daughter Charmaine in 1971.
It’s understood Stephen and Emma got together despite concerns raised by Emma’s family over Stephen, who was jailed for nine months in 2004 for seven counts of underage sex with a 14-year-old girl.
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Sources told The Sun that Stephen makes her relatives ‘uncomfortable’ and the relationship has created a ‘rift’ in the family.
The pair are reportedly getting married in Newport in August.
Emma, a nurse who works at Gloucester Royal Hospital and was once a model, has two daughters from a previous relationship.
She and Stephen had watched the new Netflix documentary, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, according to one source, but she said her fiancé ‘doesn’t want to say anything because his main priority is the little ones’.
Stephen – who grew up in the house where most of the murders happened – has been married twice before and now has eight children. He is also a grandfather.
He once acknowledged sharing certain characteristics with Fred, saying: ‘There’s a bit of my dad in me.’
Rose, who has spent almost 30 years in jail, is thought to have given up attempts to appeal her 2001 conviction and has accepted she will die behind bars.
She has reportedly been moved to a disabled room at HMP New Hall near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, after suffering ill health and struggling to walk.
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A source told the Sun: ‘She never really leaves the wing she’s held on and is escorted all the time by prison officers if she goes anywhere.
‘Sometimes she sits in the communal areas on her own.’
Rose is thought to have changed her name by deed poll in December to Jennifer Jones to distance herself from her crimes.
But the source added: ‘No one talks to her because everyone knows who she is and what she did, even if she has changed her name.
‘When I was there, she tried to make friends with the other women and gave them gifts, like vapes, but she was rejected.’
They said she likes to watch nature documentaries on her TV in her cell, ‘especially ones about birds’.
Fred West – who committed at least 12 murders – was found dead in his prison cell in 1995 after taking his own life.
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