She had been given 12 months jail in 2010 for misappropriating 113,078.

She claimed she had a supplier from whom they could buy the phones cheaply and resell the gadgets overseas for a higher price.

Instead, she intended to induce the victim to deliver money to her for her own use.

When the victim did not receive any profit and asked for her money back, Siah gave her various excuses.

The victim was made to transfer further sums when Siah lied that there were various problems with the booking.

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But Rose and her siblings had two mentally ill parents whose behaviour shaped their childhood and development.

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Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Serial killer Rose West is one of the countrys most infamous murderers but it is a little known fact West was born in Devon, as reports surface suggesting West is seriously ill in prison DevonLive.com looks at her life and her connection to the county.

Rose West was born in Northam, North Devon, in November 1953.

After a troubled childhood a 16 year old Rose fell in love with 28 year old Fred West.

The couple moved together to Gloucester at the beginning of the 1970s and so began more than a decade of sexual abuse and murder.

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According to research by criminologist Jane Carter Woodrow it was her insatiable sexual sadism that spurred on the murder spree, with Fred actually following Roses lead.

Rose, now 62, is locked up for life for the murders of 10 women, including her own daughter Heather, 16, and step-daughter Charmaine, eight.

Husband Fred, who had also killed his ex-wife Rena and mistress Anna McFall, hanged himself in his prison cell in 1995, aged 53, before he could stand trial.

Based on the fact that men are almost always the dominant partner in serial-killer relationships, many people believed Rose would surely have been, at worse, complicit under coercion, possibly covering for her husband who carried out the murders.

Rose was not simply an unsuspecting wife and victim of Fred as she maintained at her trial, but a primary player.

She writes: Daisy was given a course of electroconvulsive therapy.

A surge of electricity into the brain makes the patient black out and have convulsions.

Despite her pregnancy, the psychiatrist continued her treatment.

This meant as Rose lay in her mothers womb Daisy had more shocks blasted to her brain, sending convulsions through her body, the last one just days before Rose was born.

There has been little research on the use of ECT with pregnant patients, and expert opinion is divided, but given the damage ECT can do to the patient it seems unlikely the foetus would remain unaffected.

When Rose came home everyone commented on how beautiful the new baby was but noticed her strange behaviour.

She rocked her head for hours on end and the older children complained as she rhythmically bashed her head against the cot at night.

As she got older she continued to swing her head for long periods of time, inducing a trance-like state.

At other times her eyes were said to look vacant and lost in her own world.

The kind of behaviour Rose exhibited can be indicative of learning difficulties.

They might even be linked to the ECT treatment, but no one knows for sure.