Brian Masters urged to reveal book sources
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Your support makes all the difference.Leading crime writer Brian Masters has been asked to name his sources for police interview material in his book on the trial of mass murderer Rosemary West. But the author, whose book is critical of the police and prosecution case against the Gloucester housewife, is refusing to say where he obtained details of the interviews with her husband and self-confessed murderer, Frederick West.
Gloucestershire's Deputy Chief Constable, Nigel Burgess, asked Mr Masters to reveal where he obtained "unused material" from police investigations. Such material is normally only revealed to legal representatives and is not in the public domain as part of the legal hearings connected with the case. Mr Masters told the police that only a "few passages" involved the taped police interviews. He would not say where he obtained the material, but only that no police officer was involved.
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