He is already facing a murder charge over the disappearance of his 16-year-old daughter Heather, whose dismembered body was found in the garden of the house at 25 Cromwell Street on Sunday.

Police have identified the second body as that of 18-year-old Shirley Robinson. The other body has not yet been identified.

Police using archaeological techniques began carefully digging up the back garden of Fred and Rose West's home on 24 February following a new tip-off about the disappearance of Heather seven years ago.

Heavily pregnant

Detective Constable Hazel Savage began investigating the Wests in 1992 after she received information they had been involved in child abuse. It led her to begin investigating Heather's disappearance.

Fred West has admitted murdering his daughter, but denied Rose had any involvement.

He has not given police any further clues as to the identities of the two other women found buried in his back garden. Police have just released the name of Shirley Robinson.

Detective Superintendent John Bennett said: "She was heavily pregnant, some six to eight months. We also know from our inquiries that a woman using that name had connections with Wolverhampton, Leicester and Bristol."

The other as yet unidentified body is that of a woman in her early 20s.

The excavation of the garden has attracted much interest from neighbours. Some have laid flowers outside number 25.

Police are still trying to contact other members of the West family. Frederick West was married twice and had a total of nine children. But it is not thought the unidentified body is another relative.

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