{"id":5447,"date":"2025-09-07T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5447\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T09:43:09","slug":"id-look-out-the-window-of-our-room-and-hed-be-digging-irish-woman-kathleen-richards-on-surviving-fred-wests-house-of-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5447\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d look out the window of our room and he\u2019d be digging\u2019 \u2013 Irish woman Kathleen Richards on surviving Fred West\u2019s House of Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAfter the 17-year-old was kicked out of the family home, she found lodgings with serial killers Fred and Rose West. Here, she talks about growing up in poverty in Dolphin\u2019s Barn in the 1960s, her two-year stay in 25 Cromwell Street and the abuse she experienced there at the hands of serial killers Fred and Rose West\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kathleen Richards (also inset as a child), who was abused by serial killer Fred West\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b4992eef-ef1e-44c8-82a7-f64c87891ada.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Kathleen Richards (also inset as a child), who was abused by serial killer Fred West<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If there is one thing that lingers with Kathleen Richards, it\u2019s the smell. The \u201cvile, feral\u201d odour that emanated from serial killer Fred West was one that she cannot forget, even almost five decades on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe stench was so intense, I could almost see it rising off him, like steam,\u201d the Dubliner writes in her new memoir, Under Their Roof. \u201cIt was as if he had rolled in muck; as though he had something dead and rotting hidden under his clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the 17-year-old was kicked out of the family home, she found lodgings with serial killers Fred and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-5447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}