Prisoners 'plotted to kill Rose West with pool balls' before fellow serial killer's threat

Prisoners plotted to kill sick serial killer with pool balls and a sock. There was also a plan to set her cell on fire.

West was jailed in 1995 for 10 women and girls alongside husband Fred in what became known as the House of Horrors murders in Gloucester. To this day, it is known as one of the most revolting crimes in British history. Multiple bodies were found in their garden under a patio and in a sex-dungeon cellar. Fred killed himself in HMP Birmingham before the trial, meaning he never faced justice to the anguish of the victims' families.

But Rose West, 71, has been rotting in prison ever since, as one of few criminals in the UK to ever be given a whole life term that means she'll never be free. And she was reportedly the target of an assassination plot behind bars.

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The plot in 2008 involved battering her with pool balls in a sock, it is reported. In HMP Durham, she was also targeted in an arson attack when a fellow inmate tried to set fire to her cell.

Her former legal representative, Leo Goatley, told : "Rose was on a female wing with lots of other women serving long sentences, women who just wanted to get on and have some peace and quiet, even though they’d been convicted of some serious offences.

"About two years after her conviction, in the late nineties, they had women serving shorter sentences coming into the wing. Someone tried to set light to her cell and that was a total disruption for her."

West has also received threats from a fellow serial killer. Joanna Dennehy, convicted of murdering three men within 10 days in Peterborough, allegedly threatened to kill West behind bars.

West was moved in 2019 and is now being held in a special unit at the women-only HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire. This week, it emerged .

She is also said to have attempted making friends by giving other women gifts, but these efforts fall flat when inmates find out who she is.

released earlier this month. It delves into the nightmarish deeds of the Wests from their unassuming home in Gloucester during the '80s and '90s.

The three-part series, which utilises more than 50 hours of previously unseen and unheard police interview tapes from 107 interrogations, promises to cast new light on the murders of at least 12 women by Fred and Rose West.