A grandmother has bravely told how she escaped the clutches of Fred West - as she calls grow for a new probe into his 'forgotten victims'.
Janice Collins jumped from the serial killer's van after accepting a lift from him as a teenager.
The retired legal secretary then 'ran for her life' from a screaming West, who chased after her.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, now 70, Janice said: 'I thank God everyday that I got away from him.'
Janice, from Bristol, said she was prompted to come forward after watching a recent TV documentary on West's heinous crimes.
It recalled how along with evil wife Rose, 67, Fred brutally murdered at least 12 women and girls in their house of horrors.
Janice Collins has bravely told how she escaped the clutches of Fred West - as she calls grow for a new probe into his 'forgotten victims'
Along with his evil wife Rose, 67, (right) Fred (left) brutally murdered at least 12 women and girls in their house of horrors
Earlier this month a new documentary uncovered bombshell new evidence indicating there could be unsearched fields where the bodies of 20 'forgotten' victims may be buried.
Fred and Rose West: Reopened saw a team of investigators explore new potential graves, identified using thermal imaging and cadaver dogs.
This includes a farm where Fred is feared to have buried a dozen bodies.
The first two locations of interest are in Fingerpost Field near Much Marcle, Herefordshire, where Fred buried 18-year-old Annie McFall – his first known victim.
A third spot on a derelict farm site in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, was also identified as a potential mass grave for Wests' victims.
The documentary also said West regularly visited Bristol at the time of his murderous spree. At that time, Janice was living in a village called Pill just a few miles away from Bristol. And it's there, in 1968, aged just 16, Janice fears she came close to becoming another of West's victims.
Janice was living in a village called Pill just a few miles away from Bristol. And it's there, in 1968, aged just 16, Janice fears she came close to becoming another of West's victims
'Back in 1968 I lived in a village called Pill, which is four miles from Portishead in one direction and six miles from Bristol in the other. I used to visit friends who lived in Portishead regularly when I was a teenager. One particular evening after visiting my friend, I was waiting at the bus stop to go to my home in Pill. My parents were rather strict and always insisted I was home by 10pm. That night my bus was late and I was getting anxious that my parents would be worried.
'A small van pulled up at the bus stop, a man leaned over and asked where I was going and would I like a lift. There was another person at the bus stop who I knew just by sight as he had gone to the same school as I had. I said to the man in the van, can you give him a lift too? To which he replied, 'no I have a mattress in the back and so no room'.
'Stupidly I accepted the lift and got into the van.'
Janice said she quickly began to feel uneasy.
'During the journey the man made small talk to me, he said: 'Do you have a boyfriend?' He made me feel very uneasy so I said yes - even though I didn't have a boyfriend.
'He then put his left hand on my right leg and moved it to my inner thigh and said: 'You won't think anything of that then?' I moved his hand away and felt extremely worried.'
Janice claims West then began driving in a direction well away from where she wanted to go.
'I immediately said this is the wrong way,' she recalls. 'I knew then something was seriously wrong. I opened the passenger door and jumped out while the van was moving.
'Then I ran as fast as I could. I was running for about four or five
