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Serial killer Fred West, pictured with wife Rose (left) appears to confess to the murder of Mary Bastholm (right) in tapes featured in Channel 5s Fred and Rose West: The Search for the Victims.

Excavation work at a café where a TV documentary had suggested to police Fred West may have buried Mary Bastholm have found no trace of the missing girl.

BBC News Published image captionFred West apparently told his son he had killed Mary Bastholm, but police say he "told a lot of lies" during the 1994 investigation No human remains have been found by police searching a cafe in Gloucester for a suspected victim of the serial killer Fred West. Officers have been searching for Mary Bastholm, 15, who worked at the Pop-In Cafe - now called The Clean Plate. She was last seen in 1968. Gloucestershire Police began excavating the cafe cellar in Southg...

Police have released video of the gloomy Gloucester cellar they are excavating in the hunt for the remains of suspected Fred West victim 15-year-old Mary Bastholm.

He said: "I honestly dont know what we are going to find in the basement. "It could be we find Mary, it could be we find nothing, or it could be - because the basement is on a site of archaeological interest - because Gloucester has been there since the Roman times, we may find other human remains. Excavation begins at Clean Plate Cafe. BPM Media Credit: BPM Media "The most important thing is, Ive now got the opportunity to find out once and for all what is in the basement. "The polices job is ...