It was felt that he did it in an attempt to get Rose West at 25 off. He thought that if he could kill himself... she could then pin it all on him. Obviously that didn't work.

Chris Summers

It was a massive, massive story, the whole of Fleet Street came down, Sky and BBC TV trucks. Within a couple of weeks there were TV crews from Japan and America, all over the place. Fleet Street was waving their checkbooks around... and getting a lot of people to talk. We were trying to compete as the local paper.

It was just bizarre, he was very, very matter-of-fact. He could have been talking about burying a dead hamster.