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Serial killer Rose West is cutting her own hair with clippers in her cell because she’s so scared of being attacked.

The hulking mass murderer who has ballooned to 15st inside jail is now sporting a bizarre short back and sides rather than allow a fellow inmate to go near her with a pair of scissors.

Prisoners are allowed to sign out a pair of clippers for individual use on the wing where she is being held at top security Low Newton in County Durham.

And scared West has been clipping her own hair ever since a drama documentary about her killing spree with husband Fred was shown last November.

Fellow jailbirds were glued to the three part Channel 5 show When Fred Met Rose in their cells at night.

And for some of them it was the first time they realised the full extent of the Cromwell Street crimes that saw her jailed for the rest of her life for the murder of 10 young women.

A source revealed: “Many of the girls on her wing are relatively young and probably didn’t know the full extent of what the Wests did to those women and girls until the show was aired.

“She’s had quite a few comments and insults about what she did and ever since she’s been keeping her head down and now won’t even get her hair cut by another of the women. She just signs out the clippers and does the job herself.”

The drama began with the couple’s early life after meeting at a bus-stop, through their killing spree and eventual arrest at their House of Horrors home in Gloucester.

West, 60 – who was convicted in 1995 of the depraved murders of 10 young women at the home she shared with Fred – enjoys enhanced prisoner status at the prison.

That means she can furnish her single cell with her own bedding, curtains and rugs – all bought from an Argos catalogue – and she has a PlayStation on which she can watch a collection of up to eight DVDs.

She also has access to an Avon brochure so she can order make-up, perfume and toiletries which are paid for out of her prison bank account and delivered to her wing.

The vile serial killer has been told she will never be released from prison.

Cowardly Fred – who had a hand in a total of 12 killings - hanged himself in prison aged 53 before the start of the sensational murder trial.