He was found guilty and died by the guillotine in 1946. Fred and Rose West are two of Britain's most notorious serial killers. His wife, who is serving a life sentence in London's Holloway prison, was convicted of 10 of the murders. But in May this year, Australian police charged three people with murder after finding human remains in a disused bank vault. Another two were found buried in the garden of an Adelaide house.
Police say they suspect the motive for the murders was a welfare fraud.
Hannibal link Pietro Pacciani, the Monster of Florence, was convicted in 1994 of murdering eight couples in lovers' lanes near Florence, between 1968 and 1985. Pacciani was given 16 life sentences but was freed on appeal in 1996 and died of a heart attack in February 1998 while awaiting a retrial. The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal attended the trial of Pacciani, where he sat and studiously made notes.