Residents on a street once lived in by Fred West and Rose West have shared their concerns and fears that linger on decades after their crimes were discovered. Cromwell Street in Gloucester was the scene of some horrific committed by the infamous couple and residents have said they still suffer from a "stigma" attached to the area.

They also claimed they have received no help to deal with the trauma of the events which occurred at number 25, where Fred and Rose West carried out some of their heinous acts. The house itself has been demolished but the effects live on as the couple, who murdered at least 12 young women and girls between 1967 and 1987, live on in infamy. Polly Lowthian lives in Cromwell Street and moved next door to the site of the former number 25, now an alleyway, earlier this year. She said she had been "a bit sceptical" about moving to the area but didn't want to be "too picky" about choosing a place to live.

Ms Lowthian said: "If it had happened recently I probably wouldn't have moved in but as it happened years ago I think that is probably why I decided to move there.

"There is always going to be stigma around the street because of what happened.

"On this street some people pass and they point the alleyway and be like, 'there is where Fred West used to live'.

"Once you have got a big story obviously people are going to find it a bit scary."

Nine sets of human remains were found at 25 Cromwell Street, as well as the remains of an unborn baby which belonged to 18-year-old victim Shirley Robinson.

Nowadays, residents are fearful that the street's murky reputation is attracting anti-social behaviour and trouble to the area.

Another resident, aged 54, was in his early teens when the couple's crimes were revealed and said the area attracted "a lot of bad publicity".

He added: "There has been a lot of publicity of it around the world, which is understandable, but I don't think much is being done to support people living in this street.

"There is a lot of anti-social behaviour around the area and there is a stigma attached to it. I think they have neglected the area. It has painted the area in a bad light."

Residents' fears were expressed as a new Netflix documentary, Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, was released, featuring previously unseen police footage and unheard audio recordings which provide fresh insight into the case.

Reacting to the documentary, Juliet Dobell, a 21-year-old veterinary nursing student at the University of Gloucestershire, said it was "so interesting" but that anti-social behaviour was a major issue in the area.

She added: "There is a lot of fights, a lot of arguments and a lot of crime going on.

"We don't really leave the house at night - there is a lot of drunk people, people doing drugs."