Police will not act on ITV show’s Fred West findings

GLOUCESTERSHIRE Constabulary will not excavate sites where an ITV documentary team claim 20 forgotten murder victims of Fred West could be buried.

The force have confirmed that they will not be acting on the findings of ITV’S investigation Fred And Rose West: Reopened, as the evidence provided by the documentary team does not meet the “threshold” required.

A press officer for Gloucestershire Constabulary said: “After careful assessment we do not believe the evidence submitted to us at this time meets the threshold to justify further searches in the locations identified. However, as with all cases we will review any new evidence submitted to us.”

ITV’S documentary team claim to have located three sites at which they say up to 20 further murder victims may have been buried.

Gloucestershire Constabulary said they had informed ITV’S documentary team of their decision to not act on this intelligence.

This decision comes four months after a tip off from the same ITV team led police to excavate the Clean Plate café in Gloucestershire – searching for the remains of the 15-year-old suspected West victim Mary Bastholm – and found nothing.

Among the evidence handed over to the police were the locations of two potential grave sites at Fingerpost Field near Much Marcle, Herefordshire.

The team claim to have finally located a derelict farm, long rumoured to be a possible location for West murders. The trustees of the derelict farmland, located on the outskirts of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, would not allow the investigation team to search the area.

Sir Trevor Mcdonald, the documentary’s presenter, said: “I think the option of not investigating these fields seems very strange.”

Fred And Rose West: Reopened airs in two parts this Wednesday and Thursday at 9pm.