Serial killer Fredrick West's police interviews are to be broadcast for the first time after Gloucestershire police in the UK failed to have them banned.
The British attorney general has dismissed their request to prevent the interviews being included in a documentary due to be shown in the autumn on Britain’s Channel 5.
It is understood the programme will criticise police for failing to investigate fully claims that West committed more murders than the dozen for which he was charged.
The force has repeatedly dismissed similar allegations in the past.
A spokesman for the attorney general said: "Gloucestershire police force asked the attorney general whether he would intervene and stop the programme. He said no."
The spokesman said the decision had been made in the past couple of weeks but refused to elaborate any further.
West was charged with 12 murders, including those of his first wife and eldest daughter. He committed suicide in prison on New Year's Day 1995.
His wife Rosemary is serving life for the murders of 10 women and girls, whose bodies were found at their former homes in Gloucester.
Plans to make a TV documentary about Fred West's crimes sparked outrage from British politicians, victim's relatives and police when details about the show emerged in 1998.
PA