The sullen builder sitting opposite Margaret Newman at parents’ evening was gruff, guarded and had barely uttered a word.
He had arrived alone at Hucclecote Secondary School in Gloucester to discuss his daughter Heather’s English progress – his wife, as usual, was nowhere to be seen.
To the teacher across the desk, he seemed stand-offish and disengaged. Perhaps that was hardly surprising.
But what Ms Newman could not possibly have known was that she was sitting face-to-face with one of Britain’s most depraved serial killers – Fred West.
And that the same ‘grumpy’ father would go on to torture and murder the ‘sweet’ Year 9 pupil whose schoolwork they were discussing.
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