They believed her mass murderer tag posed “little risk” to The Cooperative Bank’s reputation.

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Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage lost his account with posh Coutts because of the “reputational risk”.

Mr Farage said: “My sins are considered by the banking industry to be more serious than the acts of serial killers like Rose West.”

An insider told the Telegraph that the Co-op reviewed accounts belonging to criminals in 2014 in a “clean up”.

But it was decided closing West’s would cause problems for her daughter, who was the main user.

West, 69, was jailed for life in 1995 for ten ­murders in Gloucester with her husband Fred.