Aerial photos show police dig for Fred West s second victim as it enters its second day in back yard of cafe where 15-year-old worked in 1968 after her locket was found in killer s home
Mary Bastholm served in the Gloucester eaterie then called The Pop In and now called The Clean Plate
Cafe run by a domestic violence charity will be closed for weeks, perhaps even for good, if a body is found
TV company making a documentary about the unsolved case found evidence of a body in the basement
Sir Trevor McDonald declines to comment but he is understood to be making West documentary for ITV
Inside the Wests monstrous marriage and murders as final victim could be unearthed
Fred and Rose West carried out their sick killing spree over 20 years and now police are searching a cafe in Gloucester for the body of Mary Bastholm, feared to have also been murdered by the couple
The sick couple are two of Britain s most notorious serial killers (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)
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May 12 2021, 14:54 ET
FRED West s son told police his serial killer dad admitted murdering teenage schoolgirl Mary Bastholm.
Stephen West claims his father confessed to killing the 15-year-old cafe worker and 30 other women before hanging himself ahead of his trial.
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Police have continued digging up the Clean Plate Cafe as they search for MaryCredit: Getty
Mary was last seen on January 6, 1968 waiting for a bus to go and see her boyfriend.
Police have today continued digging just half a mile from Fred West’s notorious Cromwell Street home.
They are excavating the basement of the Clean Plate Cafe where she worked as a waitress and the serial killer was a regular customer.
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