THE daughter of Fred and Rose West has revealed her murderer mum cared more about a pet prison budgie than her - and that she wrote to her from prison to ask her to buy black satin trousers for her glam rock star ‘fiance’.

The serial killer - who along with her husband brutally tortured and murdered 12 people, including two of their own children - embarked on a relationship with Slade bass guitarist Dave Glover, then 36, while in prison and planned to marry him – although the rocker has denied they were any more than friends.

Mae West – who revealed she was raped at five, beaten by Rose and made to watch porn in a recent book – visited Rose in prison for ten years, believing her to be innocent.

She says her mother, who is serving life, made a series of selfish demands in letters sent from HMP Durham and never showed any remorse – caring more about her pet budgie Oliver than the horrors she had put her eight children through.

Rose, now 64, had been given permission to have the pet bird in her cell and instructed Mae to bring "toys and a mirror and cuttlefish" for him.

After Mae, 39, bought Christmas presents for Oliver, Rose wrote: "Oh Mae, thank you for the budgie stuff − a Christmas stocking for budgies − have you ever heard the like!"

Rose eventually let the budgie go, worried that the constant searches of her cell with sniffer dogs upset it.

Mae said: "I should have worked it out then: she cared more for those budgies than she ever did about us."

'Unlikely pairing' with a glam rocker
She also reveals how Rose embarked on a relationship with former Slade bass guitarist Dave Glover, then 36, while in prison and planned to marry him – although the rocker has denied they were any more than friends.

She wrote asking for Mae to buy her some size 18 stretch black satin trousers as well as a card for "Dave."

Mae added: "Of course, I never knew exactly what Dave’s feelings for Mum were, but it was an extraordinary relationship.

“What more unlikely pairing could there be than a convicted serial killer and a member of a glam-rock band?"

Rose eventually called the “wedding” off after their relationship was leaked to the press and she released a statement via her solicitor saying "she wanted to give this young man his life back."

Glover lost his job in the band over his relationship with West but issued a statement saying “I am not, and was never, planning to marry Rosemary West” although he admitted they had exchanged letters and he believed she was innocent.

Mae’s sister Heather was among the victims of the evil couple, murdered as she tried to run away from the house in Cromwell Street in Gloucester at the age of 16.

Mae and her seven siblings grew up being beaten by Rose and sexually abused by Fred and an uncle, who raped her when she was five.

She recalled seeing her mum strangle her brother Stephen, when he was seven, until she "thought he would die" after he refused to get down from the kitchen counter. She also knocked him out after throwing a dish at his head.

The children were regularly locked in the cellar where the rotting bodies of the West’s victims were buried.

Even so, Rose has such a “powerful emotional grip” on Mae that she believed she was innocent of the murders for a decade after her mother’s arrest in April 1994.

'She still blames it all on dad'
Although she never doubted her father’s guilt, she did not believe her mother played a part and would make the four-hour train journey to Durham from her home in Gloucestershire each month.

She writes: “There was no direct forensic or witness evidence against her. Mum’s guilt or innocence has always been more a matter of opinion and judgement of her character - of what she was considered capable of doing - rather than about concrete proof.

“From the very beginning she denied all knowledge of the murders and blamed everything on Dad, something she still does to this day.”

"As she grew older, Rose would confide in me more and more: about her troubled childhood (Rose was sexually abused by her own father) and her turbulent relationship with Dad.”

She says her mother exploited this sense of obligation towards her.

“She knew exactly how to make me feel sorry for her, and because of that she could always rely on me to take her side.

“So, when the murders came to light and she denied all knowledge of them, I believed her. Despite the turmoil I was in, it was something positive I could hold on to, that I was supporting my mother.”

'I was never a parent'
However, as the years passed, she slowly grew to her realise her mother was "coercive and controlling" and guilty of the crimes she had always denied.

Mae, who is now married with two children of her own, says the final letter Rose sent to her gave the most insight into her failings as a mother.

Rose wrote: "When I came to prison I never intended to try to become a ‘parent’ to you children.

“I know that with all that has happened in my life and later in ‘our’ lives that I would never be capable of such a ‘feat’ . I was never a ‘parent’ and could never be now!”

Police finally caught up with the Wests' crimes after Mae's younger sister Louise told a friend.

Police began to search the house and found Heather's body, strangled seven years earlier, along with the dismembered corpses of eight young women. Aged between 15 to 21 - they were lodgers, nannies, students, hitch-hikers, runaways.

Fred confessed and led police to the body of his first wife Rena Costello, 27, near his childhood home in Much Marcle, Herefordshire, as well as the remains of her eight-year-old daughter Charmaine, who was found in the cellar of a former flat lived in by the Wests in Gloucestershire.

She is believed to have been killed by Rose.

On December 13, 1994, West was charged on 12 counts of murder and taken into custody at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham.

But before he could be put on trial for the multiple murders he hung himself on January 1, 1995 in his cell.

Rose West is serving life in prison.