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Fred West detective says 'pretty' girl cruelly snatched from bus stop haunted his work

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The detective in charge of the original Fred West investigation told how missing Mary Bastholm haunted their work from the beginning.

Former DSI John Bennett, of Gloucestershire police, was the man given the daunting task of piecing together Fred and Rose West’s decades of evil as the bodies began to pile up at 25 Cromwell Street in 1994.

But in his 2005 memoir on the dreadful case, now retired detective Bennett revealed Mary was in their thoughts from the moment Fred first appeared in court as he had covered her disappearance as a junior cop himself decades earlier.

Mary, 15, vanished on January 6, 1968, while waiting for a bus in Gloucester and no trace of her was ever found. This week detectives have been scouring a cafe she used to work

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