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Wikipedia-Article "Fred"
Many people, things and fictional characters have been know as Fred or (Freddie).
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People
- Arts
- Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor.
- Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics creator.
- Freddie Jones, British actor.
- Music
- Fred, Swiss rapper (from Basel).
- Fred 04, Brazilian musician.
- Fred Fairbrass, British musician, from 1990s duo Right Said Fred.
- Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the famous glam-rock band, Queen.
- Freddie Stone, co-founder, singer, and guitarist of Sly & the Family Stone.
- Fred, an alternative-music radio station, channel 44 on XM Satellite Radio
- Sports
- Fred Funk , American professional golfer.
- Fred Jones, American basketball player.
- Fred McGriff, American baseball player .
- Fred Spofforth Australian cricket player (from the 19th century).
- Fred Stolle Australian tennis player.
- Freddie Norwood, world champion boxer .
- Fred Biletnikoff, American football player.
- Others
- Fred is Camilla Parker Bowles's pet name for the Prince Charles.
- Fred Jones, PhD, educator, author of several classroom management books and systems.
- Fred Rogers, host of children's television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
- Freddie Laker, Sir, owner of Laker Airways.
- Fred Phelps, leader of the Westboro Baptist Church
Fictional Characters
- Fred Flintstone, from The Flintstones.
- Fred Jones, from Scooby-Doo.
- Fred (Fat Blue), from Sesame Street.
- Winifred Burkle (usually known as Fred), from TV series Angel.
- Fred usually with a backward 'F', is the sidekick to Super Chicken
Things
- Fred was a newspaper at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1980s.
- Fred Olsen is a shipping company based in Norway.
See also
Wikipedia-Article "Rose West"
Rosemary West (born November 29, 1953 as Rosemary Letts) is a British serial killer. She was convicted of murdering ten teenage girls, including her own common law step-daughter, Charmaine, and also of a serious sexual assault on a woman. The police suspect she was involved in further murders for which she has not been convicted. She killed Charmaine alone, but her other murders were all believed to have been carried out with her husband and fellow serial killer Fred West.
Rosemary or "Rose" was West's second wife. They developed a habit of picking up girls from bus stops in and around Gloucester, England (they would be less afraid of a couple than of a lone man) whom they would imprison in their home for several days before killing them. During the time of their imprisonment, the victims were sadistically tortured.
West brought up a large family, many of whom were in care, and all of whom were abused by West and her husband. West had a voracious sexual appetite and enjoyed extreme bondage and sadomaschistic sex, even more so than her husband. She was bisexual, but preferred women, and it is likely that her victims (apart from Charmaine) were picked up mostly for her sexual pleasure. She also worked as a prostitute, often preferring black clients, and many of her children were fathered by these clients.
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Other victims?
West was arrested in 1994. The crimes for which she was convicted occurred from 1972 to 1978, by which time the basement of the Wests' house at 25, Cromwell Street was full of the bodies of her victims (apart from Charmaine, who was buried at the Wests' previous home of 25, Midland Road, Gloucester). The only other body found at Cromwell Street was Heather, West's daughter, who was murdered by the Wests in 1987. The police consider it highly unlikely that the Wests just stopped their sexually motivated murders in 1978, and there are likely to have been many more murders with the bodies being buried elsewhere.
Rose West was convicted of ten murders and the police have concluded that her late husband Fred murdered a total of twelve, but Rose played no part in the first two murders (both committed in the 1960s) because she did not meet Fred until 1970.
Some reports claimed that the Wests may have killed as many as 30 people. Most of the victims were people whose disappearances were unlikely to be detected, which is why their killing spree went undetected for over 20 years. All of the 12 known victims of the Wests were women or girls, though it is possible that the Wests may have murdered men and boys as well.
Conviction
Although she did not confess, the evidence against West, which was all circumstantial, was overwhelming. She was tried in October 1995, after her husband's suicide. The jury was unanimous: West was guilty of ten murders, and the judge, Mr Justice Mantell, sentenced her to life imprisonment.
Since the trial Rosemary West's Counsel has claimed that there was no direct evidence to link her to the murders. Her counsel also accused the media of having "a malign influence" on her trial. Richard Ferguson, QC, said "Other than the sheer horror of the discovery of the remains of the victims, the most striking feature of this case, say the defence, was the dearth of evidence to connect the applicant to these crimes." He said the evidence linking Rosemary West to the deaths of Heather West, her daughter, Charmaine West, her husband's step-daughter, and Shirley Robinson, a lodger at 25 Cromwell Street, was "tenuous."
Evidence connecting her to the seven victims of sex killings found at Cromwell Street, "was virtually non-existent unless the evidence advanced under the banner of similar fact evidence was properly admissible". Rosemary West had never admitted being involved, and there was evidence that Frederick West had carried out two murders and other attacks on his own.
The remains of Ann McFall, who disappeared before Frederick West met Rosemary, were found dismembered and bound with cord. Mr Ferguson said this showed that Rosemary West had not been involved in killing the seven Cromwell Street victims discovered in similar circumstances.
She is Britain's most prolific female serial killer. She had previously, along with Fred West, been convicted of a serious sexual assault in the 1970s. Her original minimum term set by the judiciary was 25 years, but this was increased to whole life in 1997 by home secretary Jack Straw. A November 2002 law lord's ruling could see West released in 2019, by which time she will be 66 years old.