It was simply beyond the realms of most people's comprehension, and this is why they managed to get away with it for so long. [262], Lord Longford, a Catholic convert, campaigned to secure the release of "celebrated" criminals, and Hindley in particular, which earned him constant derision from the public and the press. [227] Four months later, her ashes were scattered by her ex-partner, Patricia Cairns, less than 10 miles (16km) from Saddleworth Moor in Stalybridge Country Park. At the house Downey was undressed, gagged, and forcibly posed for photographs before being raped and killed, perhaps strangled with a piece of string. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. As she wrote later, "At eight years old I'd scored my first victory". See more details about "For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a ." Return to top. Proceed at own risk. Hindley returned with Smith and told him to wait outside for her signal, a flashing light. [99] They made a two-minute appearance on 28 October, and were again remanded into custody. When police asked for the key to the locked spare bedroom, she said it was at her workplace; but after police offered to take her to retrieve it, Brady told her to hand it over. He once offered to donate one of his kidneys to "someone, anyone who needed one",[193] but was blocked from doing so. [166] In 2017, the police asked a court to order that two locked briefcases owned by Brady be opened, arguing that they might contain clues to the location of Bennett's body; the application was declined on the grounds that no prosecution was likely to result. On 11 October, she too was arrested and taken into custody. [82], Superintendent Bob Talbot of the Stalybridge police division went to Wardle Brook Avenue, accompanied by a detective sergeant. [28], In January 1961, the 18-year-old Hindley joined Millwards as a typist. [236], Maureen and her immediate family made regular visits to see Hindley, who reportedly adored her niece. [31] Over the next few months she continued to make entries, but grew increasingly disillusioned with him, until 22 December when Brady asked her on a date to the cinema. Hindley's first job was as a junior clerk at a local electrical engineering firm. Chester, England, 22nd April 1966, David Smith brother in-law of Myra . [151], Although Brady and Hindley had confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decided that nothing would be gained by a further trial; as both were already serving life sentences no further punishment could be inflicted. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. [54], Early on Boxing Day 1964, Hindley left her grandmother at a relative's house and refused to allow her back to Wardle Brook Avenue that night. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. [62] Driving down Gorton Lane, Brady saw a young girl and signalled Hindley, who did not stop because she recognised the girl as an 8-year-old neighbour of her mother. [152], DCS Topping refused to allow Brady a second visit to the moor[151] before police called off their search on 24 August. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. I hope she goes to Hell. [19], Hindley's father had served with the Parachute Regiment and was stationed in North Africa, Cyprus and Italy during the Second World War. Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her. The two remained in sporadic contact for several months,[205] but Hindley had fallen in love with one of her prison warders, Patricia Cairns. The little girl's voice was full of fear. When the signal came, Smith knocked on the door and was met by Brady, who asked if he had come for "the miniature wine bottles",[76] and left him in the kitchen saying that he was going to collect the wine. In 1980, Maureen suffered a brain haemorrhage; Hindley was allowed to visit her in hospital, but arrived an hour after her death. [246][247], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. The marriage was hastily arranged and performed at a register office. [128], In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett,[129] something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey. [265] Manchester band The Smiths' song "Suffer Little Children", from their 1984 self-titled debut album, was also inspired by the case. [191], According to Cowley, Brady regretted Hindley's imprisonment and the consequences of their actions, but not necessarily the crimes themselves. Terry recalled:. In June 1957,[23] one of Hindley's closest friends, 13-year-old Michael Higgins, invited Hindley to go swimming with friends at a local disused reservoir, but she instead went out elsewhere with another friend. [208], Hindley was told that she should spend twenty-five years in prison before being considered for parole. [177] Hindley was not informed of the decision until 1994, when a Law Lords ruling obliged the Prison Service to inform all life sentence prisoners of the minimum period they must serve in prison before being considered for parole. She did, however, manage to purchase a Webley .45 and a Smith & Wesson .38 from other members of the club. [88] Brady told police that he and Evans had fought, but insisted that he and Smith had murdered Evans and that Hindley had "only done what she had been told". Warning: This is an authentic transcript from the tape of Lesley Ann Downey before she was murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Victim: Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, whose body was found in a shallow grave on Saddleworth Moors ( Image: PA) Victim: John Kilbride, aged 12, whose remains were also discovered on the. Ann West's daughter Lesley Ann Downey was killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, after abducting her on Boxing Day 1964. [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. [38] The couple were regulars at the library, borrowing books on philosophy, as well as crime and torture. Hindley admitted that her attitude towards Downey was "brusque and cruel", but claimed that was only because she was afraid that someone might hear Downey screaming. GMP apologised to the Reade family. [207] With help from Cairns, and the outside contacts of another prisoner, Maxine Croft, Hindley planned a prison escape, but it was thwarted when impressions of the prison keys were intercepted by an off-duty policeman. A few months later, she asked her friend to destroy the letter. [240] It was a threat repeated by her son Danny. Hindley, who had not replied to the first letter, responded by thanking Johnson for both letters, explaining that her decision not to reply to the first resulted from the negative publicity that surrounded it. [57] By February 1965, Hodges had stopped visiting Wardle Brook Avenue, but Smith was still a regular visitor. [96] Police immediately began to search the area, and on 16 October found an arm bone protruding from the peat, which was presumed at first to be Kilbride's, but which the next day was identified as that of Downey, whose body was still visually identifiable; her mother was able to identify the clothing which had also been buried in the grave. [162] In mid-2009, the GMP said they had exhausted all avenues in the search for Bennett, that "only a major scientific breakthrough or fresh evidence would see the hunt for his body restart". The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in the UK. [44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. Keith Bennett, 12, was taken on June 16 1964 after he left home to visit his grandmother, Lesley Ann Downey, ten, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964, and Edward Evans, 17, was killed . In the letter, Johnson was sympathetic to Hindley over the criticism surrounding her first visit. [197] At a mental health tribunal in June the following year, he claimed that he suffered not from paranoid schizophrenia, as his doctors at Ashworth maintained, but a personality disorder. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. She was charged as an accessory to the murder of Evans and remanded at HM Prison Risley. Ann Downey, mother of Lesley Ann Downey at fairground, searching for a clue to her daughter's disappearance, 17th July 1965. Amidst strong media interest Lord Longford pleaded for her release, writing that continuing her detention to satisfy "mob emotion" was not right. [200] Brady had refused food and fluids for more than forty-eight hours on various occasions, causing him to be fitted with a nasogastric tube, although his inquest noted that his body mass index was not a cause for concern. He was facing upwards. Smith had told police that Brady had boasted of "photographic proof" of multiple murders, and officers, struck by Brady's decision to remove the apparently innocent landscapes from the house, appealed to locals for assistance finding locations to match the photographs. [221], On 25 November 2002, the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences. [84] As Brady was getting dressed, he said, "Eddie and I had a row and the situation got out of hand. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. [148], In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week. [51], Hindley's sister, Maureen, married David Smith on 15 August 1964. The young Smith was similarly impressed by Brady, who throughout the day had paid for his food and wine. [180] In one letter, written in 2005, Brady claimed that the murders were "merely an existential exercise of just over a year, which was concluded in December 1964". [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reopened the investigation, now to be headed by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, head of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). [239] Shortly before her death at the age of 70, Sheila said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her". Ann west, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, 1990. Her killing was the most notorious because of the details about her death that were presented in court. Brady took their family name and became known as Ian Sloan. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. [215] She rejected the idea and in early 1998 was moved to the medium-security HM Prison Highpoint;[216] the House of Lords ruling left open the possibility of later freedom. [87], Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Hindley had been involved in the disappearances of other young people. [4] The identity of Brady's father has never been reliably ascertained, although his mother said he was a reporter working for a Glasgow newspaper who died three months before Brady was born. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. They were Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Fan Feed More Lost Media Archive. After being discovered drunk on alcohol he had brewed, he was moved to the much tougher unit in Hull. [114] When Smith accepted the News of the World offerits editors had promised additional future payments for syndication and serialisationhe agreed to be paid 15 weekly until the trial, and 1,000 in a lump sum if Brady and Hindley were convicted. [132] It ended: "I am a simple woman, I work in the kitchens of Christie's Hospital. Edward Evans was lured from. [126] Jennifer Tighe, a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from an Oldham children's home in December 1964, was mentioned in the press some forty years later but was confirmed by police to be alive. [6] It was reported, for example, that Brady boasted of killing his first cat when he was aged just 10, and then went on to burn another cat alive, stone dogs and cut off rabbits' heads. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. [213][259] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. Please, Miss Hindley, help me. Lesley Ann Downey's last moments were captured by a voice recorder The awful recording which has featured in books since the infamous Moors murders by Brady and deranged girlfriend Myra. Source:https://www.spreaker.com/user/triplemstudios/e39-the-moors-murders-lesley-ann-downey-The fourth victim in the Moors Murders, Lesley Ann Downey. [37], Hindley began to change her appearance further, wearing clothing considered risqu such as high boots, short skirts and leather jackets, and the two became less sociable to their colleagues. The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. When Brady arrived on his motorcycle, Hindley told Reade he would be helping in the search. [35], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. After work he instructed her to drive a borrowed van around while he followed on his motorcycle; when he spotted a likely victim he would flash his headlight. [107], The 14-day trial began in a specially-prepared court room at Chester Assizes before Justice Fenton Atkinson, on 19 April 1966. "[210][211], In 1987, Hindley admitted that the plea for parole she had submitted to the Home Secretary eight years earlier was "on the whole a pack of lies",[212] and to some reporters her co-operation in the searches on Saddleworth Moor "appeared a cynical gesture aimed at ingratiating herself to the parole authorities". Speaking in 2012, Mr West said Mr Brady's death would help him. [63] Sometime after 7:30 pm,[64] on Froxmer Street, Brady signalled Hindley to stop for 16-year-old Pauline Reade, a schoolmate of Hindley's sister Maureen on her way to a dance; Hindley offered Reade a lift. The bouffanted blonde and the strutting clothes horse-killer had no human feelings as they took the life of the child. Then I heard Myra shout, "Dave, help him," very loud. I have had enough. A judge later called his crimes 'wicked' Ian Brady, pictured around 1963, aged 25 Edward Evans was among Brady's victims, beaten to death with an axe Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and John Kilbride, 12 . Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. [258] Her often reprinted photograph, taken shortly after she was arrested, is described by some commentators as similar to the mythical Medusa and, according to author Helen Birch, has become "synonymous with the idea of feminine evil". [20] He had been known as a hard man while in the army and he expected his daughter to be equally tough; he taught her to fight and insisted that she stick up for herself. Instead, the pair took them to Saddleworth Moor, an isolated area some 15 miles outside of Manchester. [71], Early in the evening of 16 June 1964, Hindley asked twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, who was on his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight,[72] for help in loading some boxes into her Mini Pick-up, after which she said she would drive him home. The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. [228][229] The Manchester Evening News reported on possible fears that this would result in visitors choosing to avoid or vandalise the park. During the 1990s, Hindley claimed that she took part in the killings only because Brady had drugged her, was blackmailing her with pornographic pictures he had taken of her, and had threatened to kill Maureen. [248] Five years after their son was murdered, Sheila and Patrick Kilbride divorced. [149], Over the next few months interest in the search waned, but Hindley's clue had focused efforts on a specific area. The murders have this name because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, more than 20 years after Brady and Hindley's trial in . [139] On 10 February 1987 Hindley formally confessed to involvement in all five murders,[141] but this was not made public for more than a month. Although Winnie Johnson's letter may have played a part, he believed that Hindley, knowing of Brady's "precarious" mental state, was concerned he might co-operate with the police and reap any available public-approval benefit. Brady returned alone after about thirty minutes, and took Hindley to the spot where Reade lay dying; Reade's clothes were in disarray and she had been nearly decapitated[67] by two cuts to the throat, including a four-inch incision across her voice box "inflicted with considerable force" and into which the collar of her coat and a throat chain had been pushed. [154] Brady was taken to the moor a second time on 8 December, and claimed to have located Bennett's burial site,[155][156] but the body was never found. [124] Throughout the trial Brady and Hindley "stuck rigidly to their strategy of lying",[125] and Hindley was later described as "a quiet, controlled, impassive witness who lied remorselessly". He was sent to Strangeways for three months. [8], Brady's behaviour worsened at Shawlands; as a teenager he twice appeared before a juvenile court for housebreaking. [198], After receiving end-of-life care, Brady died of restrictive pulmonary disease at Ashworth Hospital on 15 May 2017;[199] the inquest found that he died of natural causes and that his hunger strike had not been a contributory factor. Lesley Ann Downey, who was lured away from an Ancoats funfair near her home and killed at Hindley's home in Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, on December 26, 1964. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. Between December 1997 and March 2000, Hindley made three separate appeals against her life tariff, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but each was rejected by the courts. [158] Police, failing to discover any unsolved crimes matching the details that he supplied, decided that there was insufficient evidence to launch an official investigation. [108] Other elaborate security precautions included a public address system costing 2,500 and 500 worth of telephone equipment. [26] At 17, she became engaged after a short courtship, but called it off several months later after deciding the young man was immature and unable to provide her with the life she wanted. [52], In 1964, Hindley, her grandmother, and Brady were rehoused as part of the post-war slum clearances in Manchester, to 16Wardle Brook Avenue in the new overspill estate of Hattersley, Cheshire. [192] Twenty years of transcribing classical texts into braille came to an end when the authorities confiscated Brady's translation machine, for fear it might be used as a weapon. [176], The trial judge recommended that Brady's life sentence should mean life, and successive Home Secretaries agreed with that decision. [11], Within a year of moving to Manchester, Brady was caught with a sack full of lead seals he had stolen and was trying to smuggle out of the market. Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick. On one of these occasions, she found an envelope belonging to Brady which she burned in an ashtray; she claimed she did not open it but believed it contained plans for bank robberies. When this happens at a young age, it can distort a person's reaction to such situations for life."[22]. [32] (Many sources state that the film was Judgment at Nuremberg, but Hindley recalled it as King of Kings. [121], On 6 May, after having deliberated for a little over two hours,[123] the jury found Brady guilty of all three murders, and Hindley guilty of the murders of Downey and Evans. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. [264], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. She had been lured from a fairground by the pair and taken to the house Hindley shared. They approached her and deliberately dropped some shopping they were carrying, then asked her for help in taking the packages to their car, and then to Wardle Brook Avenue. [35] She expressed concern at some aspects of Brady's character; in a letter to a childhood friend, she mentioned an incident where she had been drugged by Brady, but also wrote of her obsession with him. The prosecution's opening statement was held in camera rather than in open court,[103] and the defence asked for a similar stipulation but was refused. He again appeared before the court, this time with nine charges against him,[9] and shortly before his 17th birthday he was placed on probation on condition that he live with his mother. Smith later told the police: I waited about a minute or two then suddenly I heard a hell of a scream; it sounded like a woman, really high-pitched. Lesley was just 10-years-old when she was killed by them after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964 at a fair in Ancoats, Manchester. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. She did, though, later remember that as Reade was being buried she had been sitting next to her on a patch of grass and could see the rocks of Hollin Brown Knoll silhouetted against the night sky. At some point Brady sent Hindley to fetch Smith, her brother-in-law. Man - Get out of the fucking road. He described Hindley as a "delightful" person and said "you could loathe what people did but should not loathe what they were because human personality was sacred even though human behaviour was very often appalling". [108] National and international journalists covering the trial booked up most of the city's hotel rooms. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. Lesley Ann Downey was just 10-years-old when she was killed by Hindley and Brady, after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964. Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. Lesley Ann Downey was Brady and Hindley's youngest victim when she was murdered on 26 December, 1964. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. [109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. [7] Brady was accepted for Shawlands Academy, a school for above-average pupils. The monastery where, as an infant in 1942, Hindley had been baptised a Catholic, had a lasting effect on her. [106] Hindley wrote to her mother: I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. Mrs Ann Downey watching the police search Saddleworth moors for the body of her daughter Lesley, a victim of the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra. None of Maureen's relatives attended. Hindley drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove. [48], By June 1963, Brady had moved in with Hindley at her grandmother's house in Bannock Street, and on 12 July, the two murdered their first victim, Pauline Reade. The following morning Brady and Hindley drove Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor,[74] and buried hernaked with her clothes at her feetin a shallow grave.[75]. He called Brady "wicked beyond belief" and said he saw no reasonable possibility of reform for him, though he did not think the same necessarily true of Hindley once "removed from [Brady's] influence". Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride. In 1960s Britain, people did not kidnap and murder children for fun. More to explore: Murder Casebook Magazines, Murder in Mind Magazines, She burst into tears and ran to her father, who threatened to "leather" her if she did not retaliate; Hindley found the boy and knocked him down with a series of punches. 6 Hindley led him into the living room, where Brady was lying on a divan, writing to his employer about his ankle injury. "[85], Though Hindley was not initially arrested, she demanded to go with Brady to the police station, taking her dog. [16], Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942[17][18] to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing. On the evening of 6 October 1965, Hindley drove Brady to Manchester Central railway station, where she waited outside in the car whilst he selected a victim. [194] In 2006 officials intercepted 50paracetamol pills hidden inside a hollowed-out crime novel sent to Brady by a female friend. Reade had attended school with Hindley's younger sister Maureen, and had also been in a short relationship with David Smith, a local boy with three criminal convictions for minor crimes. Hindley claimed that when Downey was being undressed she herself was "downstairs"; when the pornographic photographs were taken she was "looking out the window"; and that when Downey was being strangled she "was running a bath". Brady was also convicted of murdering John Kilbride, while Hindley was convicted of being an. 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Secretary of State For The Home Department, Ex Parte Hindley", "Myra Hindley, the Moors monster, dies after 36 years in jail", "I have no compassion for her. The pair had lured Lesley away from a funfair on Boxing day in 1964, a day when most families were out enjoying the fresh air. [187][189], Myra gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die. [10] By then, Brady's mother had moved to Manchester and married an Irish fruit merchant named Patrick Brady; Patrick got Ian a job as a fruit porter at Smithfield Market, and Ian took Patrick's surname. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. It has taken me five weeks labour to write this letter because it is so important to me that it is understood by you for what it is, a plea for help. On his release from prison, Smith moved in with a 15-year-old girl who became his second wife and won custody of his three sons. [237] Sheila and Patrick Kilbride, who were by then divorced,[238] attended Maureen's funeral thinking that Hindley might be there; Patrick mistook Bill Scott's daughter from a previous relationship for Hindley and tried to attack her. The case featured in two television dramas in 2006, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford.[266][267]. 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[171] On 1 October the police reported that no further remains had been found. [217][218], When in 2002 another life sentence prisoner challenged the Home Secretary's power to set minimum terms, Hindley and hundreds of others, whose tariffs had been increased by politicians, looked likely to be released.

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