detective who led on the original investigation into Fred West has told how missing Mary Bastholm haunted his work. John Bennett was tasked with the original probe into Fred and Rose West’s decades of evil.The former DSI, of Gloucestershire police, faced the daunting task as the bodies began to pile up at 25 Cromwell Street in 1994.
Our sister title The Mirror reports how in his 2005 memoir, now retired detective Bennett revealed Mary was in his thoughts from the moment Fred first appeared in court as he had covered her disappearance as a junior cop himself decades earlier.
Mary, 15, vanished on January 6, 1968, while waiting for a bus in Gloucester and no trace of her was ever found.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news.
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