A FAMILY has made an emotional plea to serial killer Rosemary West to tell her where the body of their loved relative is.
Mary Bastholm, of South Shields, is believed to have been killed by West, or her husband Fred West, at their home in Gloucester in 1968.
Now, in the month of Rosemary West's appeal against her conviction for the murder of ten young women and children, the family have made their plea for information.
The Wests' son, Stephen, has said he is convinced Mary was murdered by his parents. That has prompted Patricia Bastholm, 58, of South Shields, whose husband Harry was Mary's cousin, to make her plea to Rosemary West.
She said: "We have always believed she knew more than she was letting on. Why can't she tell us where the body of Mary is and let us lay her memory to rest?
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