Fred West used his ice cream van to “camouflage” his crimes – and even killed a toddler while working in Glasgow, a writer has claimed.
Colin MacFarlane, author of The Real Gorbals Story, said: “People often say to me, ‘How rough was the Gorbals?’, and I say, ‘Fred West was my ice cream man’.
“There was a continual stream of violence. The place was inhabited with a conglomeration of psychopaths. Fred West arrived in the Gorbals, where he became quite well known as ‘The Mr Whippy Man’.
