While Fred West was initially reluctant to talk when he was taken into police custody, it was Janet Leach, his designated ‘appropriate adult’ who he formed a bond with and started to open up to.

Janet Leach is an English social worker who because enmeshed in the trial of Fred West, a monstrous serial killer. Janet had put her name down as an "appropriate adult"— volunteers requested ...

Some scenes have been created for the purposes of dramatisation.’ The drama follows Gloucester social worker Janet Leach (Emily Watson) and her pivotal role in discovering the bodies of women the ...

Appropriate Adult, originally aired on ITV in 2011, shadows Janet Leach, who served as Fred West's appropriate adult, guiding him through police procedures during interviews to ensure he ...

Janet Leach. Janet was alongside West when he went with detectives to the dank cellar of his house - where he often made his 10 kids sleep - after drawing her a map of where his victims lay.

Appropriate Adult (pictured, with Dominic West as Fred, right, and Emily Watson as social worker Janet Leach, left), which first aired on ITV in 2011, is a two-part mini-series of TV films ...

With a new Fred and Rose West documentary now trending on Netflix, now is the perfect time to revisit Dominic West's "searingly powerful" true crime drama.