The convicted serial killer, 72, was jailed for life in 1995 for murdering ten girls and women with late husband Fred West, making her one of the country's most notorious female killers.
Now, she is said to be acting like “a celebrity” behind bars, according to a new report by the Daily Mail.
Earlier this week, it emerged that the 72-year-old sexually assaulted a young inmate after allegedly grooming her for weeks before the cell attack at HMP New Hal near Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
West, who changed her name to Jennifer Jones by deed poll in 2020, was later disciplined and stripped of her privileges. She is being held in a special section of the prison called Rivendell House.
A source told the Sun: "Rose looks like a frail pensioner, but she is still extremely dangerous – as this attack shows. She befriended a young girl, in her 20s, and basically groomed her before the attack.
"The whole prison is talking about it and inmates are shocked. It wasn't clear if West was caught in the act of attacking her or if her victim reported her.
"But guards were on the scene pretty quickly and West was taken from her cell and put in front of a governor. She has barely been allowed out of her cell since.”
The source added: “It is pretty disgusting she had the freedom to do something like this in the first place. Her victim is vulnerable and West took advantage of her before trying to force herself on her.
“West has form for trying to make friends with young girls in there. She offers them help with things like cooking and sewing.”
This week, several former inmates at the jail spoke out about how they have either witnessed or been on the receiving end of West's abuse.
One insider told the Daily Mail. "Rose would try and befriend people. She would do up their hair, put make-up on them. She would also make cakes on a Friday – it became a sort of thing on the wing where people would make cakes for the weekend and the staff would join in. I was working in the coffee shop and library at the time so I saw a lot of her.
"She was quite arrogant, like she was some sort of celebrity. She had a lot of the screws wrapped around her little finger and she knew it. They were always asking if she was OK. The screws told us that she had to be protected because she was such a high-profile prisoner.
"Me and my mate once asked if she did it – kill her kids. Her face nearly exploded. She went bright red and started shouting 'miss, miss' – calling for the guards.
"She was saying 'they are harassing me… they are calling me a murderer'. She went right off on one saying, 'I didn't kill my kids, I didn't do anything wrong'."
West tried to blame all of the murders on her husband, who took his own life while on remand at HM Prison Birmingham.
However, her involvement in the crimes and the sadistic pleasure she derived from them was never in doubt.
Prosecutor Brian Leveson told the court during the trial: "[The victims'] last moments on earth were as objects of the sexual depravity of this woman and her husband."
Justice Charles Mantell described her crimes as "appalling and depraved" and sentenced her to life in prison, telling her: "If any attention is paid to what I think, you will never be released."
Sadly, even after more than three decades behind bars, she is still proving to be a threat to women around her.
