{"id":18820,"date":"2021-05-12T06:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2021-05-12T06:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:28:06","slug":"fred-west-police-search-gloucester-cafe-for-mary-bastholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/12\/fred-west-police-search-gloucester-cafe-for-mary-bastholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred West police search Gloucester cafe for Mary Bastholm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police are continuing their search for a body at a cafe in Gloucester linked to a girl feared to have been murdered by serial killer Fred West.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mary Bastholm, 15, went missing in the city on 6 January 1968. She has never been found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Documentary-makers called officers to The Clean Plate on Friday where West was a regular customer in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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City journalist John Hawkins said “it had been speculated on for many years that police should look at that cafe”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Hawkins started working in the city as a 16-year-old “cub reporter” a few months before Ms Bastholm disappeared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police remain at the site on Wednesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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He said he was “absolutely amazed” to hear that police were searching the cafe after being asked to previously and refusing each time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Of course it [Mary’s disappearance] turned out to be perhaps the biggest mystery story I was ever involved in and certainly one of the biggest stories Gloucester’s ever had,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Not until the early 1990s, when the West case came to light, did we start to put two and two together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“For those who stretch back a bit and remember those times in the 90s, they might be thinking, ‘suddenly, we’ve got this all going on again’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The film crew told police last week they had found evidence that a body could be buried within the property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gloucestershire Police have said officers could be at the site “for a number of weeks” and excavation work is yet to begin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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John Hawkins started working as a reporter in Gloucester just months before Mary Bastholm disappeared<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Miss Bastholm’s family are aware of recent developments and have asked for privacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1994, West admitted murdering his daughter, Heather, as police started to search 25 Cromwell Street, where the bodies of nine girls and young women were found.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rose and Fred West were jointly charged with nine murders and he was charged with a further three. Fred West took his own life in prison while awaiting a trial in 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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