A former glamour model has opened up about her relationship with the son of serial killers Fred and Rose West.
Emma Bradley ignored concerns from her family to settle down with Stephen West, 51, and the pair most recently welcomed a baby girl named Eden.
The baby will never meet her evil grandparents as Fred killed himself in 1995 while awaiting trial for 12 murders, while Stephen has cut ties with Rose, who is serving a life sentence in prison for the rape, torture and murder of 10 women and girls.
Emma’s family are believed to have raised the alarm over the fact that Stephen, who once said ‘there’s a bit of my dad in me’, had spent time behind bars for seven counts of underage sex with a 14-year-old girl.
But the former topless model is said to be so besotted with her fiancee Stephen that she is planning to marry him this August at the Celtic Manor hotel in Newport.
Emma moved in with Stephen to a home in Abbeymead, Gloucester, just five miles away from the ‘House of Horrors’ at 25 Cromwell Street where his parents, among Britain’s worst serial killers, committed multiple murders.
She has also switched careers after modelling for magazines like Nuts and Zoo in her early 20s for her current job as a nurse at Gloucester Royal Hospital.
After reports of Rose being in ill health in HMP New Hall, West Yorkshire, Emma told The Sun that neither she or Stephen were aware as they have cut ties with the serial killer.
She said: ‘Stephen doesn’t want to say anything because his main priority is the little ones. He is adamant, at this time of his life he’s got a young family to protect.’
A former glamour model has revealed what her life is like after having another child with the son of Fred (left) and Rose West (right)
Emma Bradley ignored concerns from her family to settle down with Stephen West (above) and the pair have recently welcomed a baby girl named Eden
Emma’s family are said to have raised the alarm over the fact Stephen (above) had spent jailtime for seven counts of underage sex with a 14-year-old girl
Emma shares four girls with Stephen – the eldest being 17 years old – and says they ‘don’t know about the family history’.
She believes they are ‘old enough to be aware but too young to understand’.
One inside source told the newspaper that Emma’s family were ‘uncomfortable’ with her relationship to Stephen due to his family and ‘where he comes from’.
They also say that Stephen, a former builder, is currently unemployed and drives a Motability Scheme car due to one of his daughter’s being disabled.
Another source said Emma is only with Stephen because she ‘wanted attention’ and added that ‘she has always been like that’.
The former model reportedly dated ex-Arsenal striker Paul Merson and singer Dane Bowers before settling down.
Stephen was jailed for nine months in December 2004 after having an eight month affair with the 14-year-old girl, during which time he arranged for her to have an abortion.
He claimed his harrowing childhood led to psychological trauma which had been a factor in the relationship.
Pictured: A police officer stands outsite the ‘House of Horrors’ on 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, where Fred and Rose West committed many of their murders
Fred West (above, left) died by suicide in 1995 while awaiting trial while Rose West (above, right) is in HMP New Hall, West Yorkshire, where she is spending a life sentence
The now-51-year-old has been married twice before his engagement to Emma and has eight children in total. He is also a grandfather.
He grew up in the ‘House of Horrors’ and cut all ties with his mother and 1999, saying 20 years later it was ‘important that I did that’.
Rose had blamed Stephen for her and Fred’s the horrific campaign of rape, torture and murder – which included their killing of his older sister Heather – and said it was his fault that she had ended up behind bars.
Stephen added: ‘She rang me in 1999 with hate, blaming me for everything. She said I should have died when I was born and that I was a disgrace to the family.
‘You don’t need enemies when you’ve got family like that.’
At 14 years old, his father Fred told him to dig a hole in his garden that would be used for a fish pond. But it was to be used for his 16-year-old sister’s grave.
Pictured: Police digging in the garden of Fred and Rose West’s ‘House of Horrors’ in 1994
Pictured: Police searching through materials in the garden of Fred and Rose West’s ‘House of Horrors’ in 1994
Pictured: Police removing evidence from the property on Cromwell Street
Pictured: The cellar in the ‘House of Horrors’ where some bodies were found
The couple would often tell their other children they would ‘end up under the patio like Heather’ if they did not behave.
Of Fred and Rose’s 10 children, only seven are still alive today.
Four of them are believed to have moved to other parts of the UK to begin new lives, away from the ‘House of Horrors’ – but three, including Stephen, have remained in Gloucester and live around ten minutes away from each other.
