I LEAPT FROM VAN TO ESCAPE FRED WEST

Jackie tells of terror at being kidnapped and almost becoming murderer's first victim

- RORY CASSIDY

A SCOT kidnapped by serial killer Fred West has spoken of her horrifying ordeal for the first time.

Jackie Stanton, who was lured into his ice cream van, tells of her "pure terror" and how she leapt from the van to escape.

I was bleeding all down my legs.. I knew I had to run. Run, run, run, run. Just run PURE PANIC!! PURE TERROR

Narrow escape after House of Horrors monster offered Jackie lift home in his ice cream van

A SCOTS victim of Fred West has spoken of her "pure terror" on being abducted by the notorious serial killer.

Speaking for the first time about her ordeal, Jackie Stanton told how West lured her into his van for a lift home but instead drove her to a remote location.

Despite begging to get out, West refused and Jackie, then aged 13, had to leap from the van to escape his clutches. She ran away down a secluded country road with West chasing her, calling her a "little bitch".

House of Horrors monster West killed 12 young women, most of them with wife Rose. He killed himself in prison while awaiting trial for the sex killings in 1995.

Before the murder spree, West had moved to Glasgow in the 1960s with his first wife Rena Costello where he ran an ice cream van. It was here that Jackie suffered her ordeal after meeting West when she was with a group of girls at his van.

She said: "He started talking to me, which I thought was quite nice of him.