The Clean Plate café is the scene of a police investigation after evidence was found of a body thought to be missing teenager Mary Bastholm, a suspected victim of Fred West. Mary Bastholm worked at a sandwich shop, The Pop In, where The Clean Plate now stands, according to The Daily Mail Online. Books by Brian Masters and Gordon Burn state West was a regular at the eatery and he carried out work on the building s drains – though Rose West’s solicitor Leo Goatley believes West may have been laying floor there. Speaking to Sky News, Mr Goatley said: “I would think it very unlikely that Mary Bastholm was actually murdered or dismembered at the pop-in cafe.
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Rose West’s former solicitor has told of rumours that Fred West used the disappearance of Mary Bastholm as a bargaining chip for prison privileges.
Evidence of a body was recently discovered at a cafe in Gloucester which police believe to be linked to Mary Bastholm, who went missing in 1968. Leo Goatley, solicitor and author of
Understanding Fred and Rose West, told Sky News of the difficulty police had in distinguishing Fred’s fantasies from reality. “One of the difficulties the police had was that Fred West was such a fantasist they had to try and work their way through the blatant lies and fantasies to get some of the facts and reality,” he said.
Rose West spotted at Gloucester cafe where teenage victim s body feared buried
Killer Rose West was reportedly spotted at the Pop In cafe, now known as Clean Plate, prior to the disappearance of 15-year-old Mary Bastholm whose remains are feared to be buried there
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