Mae West grew up in 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester — a home that in 1994 became known as the House of Horrors. 

Her father Fred West, helped by wife Rose, murdered at least ten young women — including one of their daughters — many entombed in the cellar. 

In a searing interview in the Mail on Saturday, Mae revealed how she managed to escape her past.

But, in this first extract from a new memoir, she reveals the savage world of cruelty that lurked within those four walls...

The letter was headed HM Prison Durham. ‘I want you to feel that you can talk to me about anything,' wrote my mother.

Mae West (left), with her older sister Heather (right), who grew up in Gloucester in what became known as the House of Horrors