SON OF VILE COUPLE
In 1987 at 14, Stephen even unwittingly dug the hole to be used for his 16-year-old sister Heather’s grave at the family’s Gloucester home, after his father told him it was for a fish pond.
The couple would joke to their other children that they would “end up under the patio like Heather” if they misbehaved. Nine of the couple’s 12 victims were found buried in and around the house.
In his early 30s, tormented Stephen ended up in court in 2004 after having sex with a 14-year-old girl and getting her pregnant.
“My mother sent a letter to the judge saying that I should never release me and I should be locked up for ever,” he says in an updated edition of author Howard Sounes’ book Fred & Rose.
“The judge read it out in court, screwed it up, put it in the bin, and said, ‘The day I listen to her is the day I retire’.” Builder Stephen, of 25 Cromwell St
A young Fred (holding buggy) with family. He claimed dad Walter, left, was paedophile. Front, next to buggy, tragic Kitty. Top: Stephen today
Herefordshire, was sentenced to nine months, and it was then that the reality of his horrendous upbringing hit home.
He has now undergone therapy to come to terms with his troubled childhood. As a result he had finally begun to understand the full impact Dgdgd dgdgddgdgdgddg-
it had on him. He says he decided in 1999 that the only way he could get on with his life was to cut all ties with the murdering mum who had abused him as a child.
“It was important that I did that. I had to,” Stephen told author and former Sunday Mirror journalist Howard, who broke major stories in