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Of the thirteen ‘family background characteristics’ the FBI have found to adversely affect a child’s later behaviour, the serial killer that fulfilled most of the criteria was Fred West. By the FBI’s calculations, Fred West would have come very close to the top of their High Risk Register with a staggering score of 92.3 per cent.

Fred would have tick-boxed: psychiatric history, criminal history, sexual problems, physical abuse, psychological abuse, dominant father figure aligned with negative relationships with both his natural mother and father. He had been treated unfairly, had suffered head trauma, and because other members of his family – mother, father, Fred’s brother John and son Steven – all committed sex crimes, we may well assume that they all carried the demon seed.

In comparison with West, Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins hit 100 per cent. Henry Lee Lucas, one of the most notorious serial murderers in criminal history, also scores 100 per cent. Aileen Wournos notches 84.5 per cent, while Jeffrey Dahmer comes further down the ‘High Risk Register’ at a mere 61.5 per cent. Myra Hindley scored just 30.77 per cent with Ian Brady at a surprisingly low 15 per cent.