The Fucking City

Gloucester is barely a city even now the population is less than 30,000 people. Even in a town five times that size I'd imagine rumors of what went on with Carolyn Owens would have been enough to make people stay away. This was a time of deep recession in England, which made it nearly impossible for especially young people to find work They were desperate and even those that found work were sometimes limited to only three days a week as a measure to save on electricity. There was a fair amount of desperation and boredom a sort of fucking attitude. And that hopelessness that burrow deep into the souls of the English youth was almost Certainly sensed by two predators like Fred and Rose West.