Hindley and West DID have jail fling
Lag backs lawyer’s claim evil pair had romance
MASS killers Rose West and Myra Hindley DID have a brief fling behind bars, a fellow convict alleged last night.
Linda Calvey has backed up claims in a new book by West’s solicitor that the two monsters were seeing each other.
And she believes that when they fell out it was after a bust-up over who was more famous.
“Their relationship definitely looked romantic,” said Calvey, 71, who encountered the pair in HMP Durham in 1995 while jailed for killing her lover.
“A prison officer told me,
‘I’d love to know what the gruesome twosome are up to’. But about two months later it was like they never knew each other. There was talk that because Rose was more famous than Myra, it put her nose out of joint.”
Calvey’s claims come after lawyer Leo Goatley – West’s solicitor for 12 years – alleges in Understanding Fred & Rose West the two got close just after the House of Horrors killer began her life sentence.
He says they first met when Moors murderer Hindley happened to be on the same wing at Durham where West was on remand. “I recall Rose was taken with Hindley,” he says. “‘She
said, ‘ She’s all right, we get on, I want to see how it goes’.”
Goatley claims this was a reference to a “flowering, albeit shortlived, lesbian relationship”. Prisoner relationships are allowed – but not sex between inmates.
Calvey – whose own book Black Widow came out this year– claims lags at Durham got long “unlocked” spells out of cells – and this gave Hindley and West, 65, plenty of time to get to know each other.
“They were as thick as thieves,” she said.
Goatley alleges that when he visited West a few months after she met Hindley, the fling was over.
He writes: “She was saying, ‘ You have to watch Hindley. She is very manipulative. She ain’t going to take me for a c*** again’.”
West is now in New Hall prison, West Yorks. Hindley died aged 60 in 2002. In December 1995 she issued a handwritten statement denying she had ever got close to West.