West confessed to '13th victim'

Thursday 26 March 1998 00:02 GMT

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STEPHEN WEST, the son of the serial killer Fred West, said last night his father had confessed to killing a 13th victim.

Mr West said that, shortly before committing suicide in jail on 1 January 1995, his father had boasted of killing the missing teenager Mary Bastholm.

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