WORLD IN BRIEF : ENGLAND : Suspected Killer’s Wife Accused in Rape
A British court charged the wife of accused “House of Horror” serial killer Frederick West with the rape of an 11-year-old girl. In the latest twist to the gruesome case, Rosemary West, 40, was accused in court jointly with a man identified as William Smith of having had sexual intercourse with the girl without consent between July, 1974, and July, 1976. Frederick West, a 52-year-old builder, has been charged with 10 murders after the discovery of nine decomposed female bodies at the house he shared with Rosemary, plus another set of female remains in a country field.
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