This Morning viewers joined Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby for another instalment of the magazine show today, and it started with a very sensitive subject.
Joining the presenters on the sofa was Juanita Mott, who was a victim of Fred and Rose West, two sisters, Belinda Mott and Mary-Ann Mitchell.
During the interview Holly explained how Rose is denying any involvement with the deaths she has been found guilty of and is appealing to the courts to see if that sentence can be shortened or overturned in order to spend time with her fiancé.
Understandably, both Belinda and Mary-Ann were “angry” and said: “I think it’s just a waste of tax payers money. Why are they putting it through the courts again.
With this development, Phillip asked them what they would like to happen to Rose instead, and the two had some very strong views.
“I’d like to see her to rot in hell if I’m perfectly honest. She’ll never get out. And if she did, I’m sure there would be a queue waiting,” Mary-Ann strongly remarked.
“Do you feel the same Belinda?” Phillip continued and she replied by nodding in agreement.
“That, or a very slow electric chair,” Belinda added.
“This is where the death penalty, I feel is needed, when it is without a doubt, there is no doubt at all, she was involved because Charmaine [West] was killed whilst Fred was in prison and in Rose’s care.
“So there is no doubt, she is a killer,” Mary-Ann concluded.
Rose West was found guilty and sentenced to a life imprisonment by the British judicial system in 1995 for the murder of 10 young women and girls, one of those believed to be Juanita.
She is currently serving that sentence, despite asking for a reconsideration.
As for their opinions towards Fred, who was found dead in prison back in 1995 after being charged with 12 murders, the two ladies explained how they felt “cheated”.
“We didn’t get justice,” Mary-Ann began. ”Yes he would have ended up in the same circumstances [as Rose] in prison.
“But [on the other hand] part of me is glad he’s not on the earth breathing the same air we do.”
“He didn’t get to come clean,” Belinda said. “He is the only one that knows. In a sense, we are the lucky ones. We got to have her [Juanita] back for a short time and say goodbye.”
As for how their lives have been affected by this devastating trauma, both sisters reiterated how Juanita is “very much remembered”.
“I find it is what we’re used to now, it’s part of our lives. Our kids won’t ever get to meet their auntie.
“Her memory is kept alive, we’ve learnt to not life with it, we’re not existing, it’s just plodding along.” And Belinda added: “We were already destroyed.”
This Morning airs weekdays at 10.30am on ITV.