West’s nephew raped girl, 12

THE nephew of serial killer Rose West has been jailed for raping a “highly vulnerable” 12-year-old.

Steven Letts, 39, met the girl while she was on a shopping trip with a support worker from the care home where she lived.

A jury heard he took her back to his flat, plied her with drugs and alcohol and then had sex with her.

Letts was sentenced to eight years for rape and 10 years consecutively for another offence of aggravated burglary.

He pleaded not guilty to abducting the girl and raping her, but was convicted of both charges at Gloucester Crown Court on November 6.

The court heard Letts encouraged the girl to leave her support worker on March 6 after she met him in a Gloucester street and asked him for a cigarette.

She was found the following morning in Letts’ flat by police.

Judge Jamie Tabor QC described him as “a very volatile man” and said he was “a man steeped in the use of drugs”.

Letts, of Gloucester, who refused to attend court for sentencing, had an extra year added to his parole licence and must sign the Sex Offender Register.

In 1995 Rose West was convicted of murdering 10 girls whose remains were found at the house she shared with husband, serial killer Fred West.