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[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. [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. [174] He spent nineteen years in mainstream prisons before being diagnosed as a psychopath in November 1985 and sent to the high-security Park Lane Hospital, now Ashworth Hospital, in Maghull, Merseyside;[175] he made it clear that he never wanted to be released. [213][259] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. A search of left-luggage offices turned up the suitcases at Manchester Central railway station on 15 October;[90] the claim ticket was later found in Hindley's prayer book. The little girl's voice was full of fear. [256], The photographs and tape recording of the torture of Downey exhibited in court, and the nonchalant responses of Brady and Hindley, helped to ensure their lasting notoriety. )[33] Their dates followed a regular pattern: a trip to the cinema, usually to watch an X-rated film, then back to Hindley's house to drink German wine. 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). Instead, the pair took them to Saddleworth Moor, an isolated area some 15 miles outside of Manchester. The excursion caused a furore in the national press and earned Wing an official rebuke from the then-Home Secretary Robert Carr. [201] He was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night. He saw no point in making any kind of public apology; instead, he "expresse[d] remorse through actions". The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. [89] Smith said that Brady had asked him to return anything incriminating, such as "dodgy books", which Brady then packed into suitcases; he had no idea what else the suitcases contained or where they might be, though he mentioned that Brady "had a thing about railway stations". Fisher persuaded Hindley to release a public statement, which touched on her reasons for denying her guilt previously, her religious experiences in prison, and the letter from Johnson. [76] Hindley's family had not approved of Maureen's marriage to Smith, who had several criminal convictions, including actual bodily harm and housebreaking, the first of which, wounding with intent, occurred when he was 11. Amidst strong media interest Lord Longford pleaded for her release, writing that continuing her detention to satisfy "mob emotion" was not right. [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. [171] On 1 October the police reported that no further remains had been found. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor. Lesley was raped and murdered by the evil pair before being dumped in a shallow grave on Saddleworth Moor, where she lay undiscovered until October 1965, over nine months later. Mrs Winifred Johnson, mother of missing boy Keith Bennett, pictured on Saddleworth Moor, with a photograph of her son, 25th January 1995. Please, Miss Hindley, help me. [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. [91] Inside one of the cases wereamong an assortment of costumes, notes, photographs and negativesnine pornographic photographs taken of Downey, naked and with a scarf tied across her mouth, and a sixteen-minute audiotape recording of a girl identifying herself as "Lesley Ann Weston"[b] screaming, crying, and pleading to be allowed to return home to her mother. The killer, who was obsessed with the 1960s. I wanted her to suffer like I have. The Lord Chief Justice agreed with that recommendation in 1982, but in January 1985 Home Secretary Leon Brittan increased her tariff to thirty years. [24] Hindley's father had insisted she have a Catholic baptism, and her mother agreed, on the condition that she not be sent to a Catholic school; Nellie Hindley believed that "all the monks taught was the catechism". The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. [80] Brady sprained his ankle in the struggle, and Evans's body was too heavy for Smith to carry to the car on his own, so they wrapped it in plastic sheeting and put it in the spare bedroom. [148], In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. [56] Despite a huge search, she was not found. [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. They even tape-recorded the last moments of her life. RM G63PEE - A police-mounted search of Saddleworth Moor, near Woodhead, for the bodies of the victims of the Moors Murderers. She ran errands, typed, made tea, and was well liked enough that when she lost her first week's wage packet, the other girls took up a collection to replace it. She took a job at Bratby and Hinchliffe, an engineering company in Gorton, but was dismissed for absenteeism after six months. [14], In 2003, the police launched Operation Maida, and again searched the moor for Bennett's body,[161] this time using sophisticated resources such as a US reconnaissance satellite which could detect soil disturbances. Brady, who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester, was jailed in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. A NEW drama will feature a recreation of the shocking Moors Murders tape which recorded the torture and death of one of the child victims. When she denied that she had a husband or that a man was in the house, Talbot identified himself. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. Ann wrote a book, For the Love of Lesley, The Moors Murders remembered by a victims Mother in 1987. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. [231] That same year his children were taken into the care of the local authority. To help date the photos, detectives had a veterinary surgeon examine the dog to determine his age; the examination required a general anaesthetic from which Puppet did not recover. At 6:10a.m., having waited for daylight and armed himself with a screwdriver and bread knife in case Brady was planning to intercept him Smith called police from a phone box on the estate. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. [35] The dock was fitted with bullet proof glass to protect Brady and Hindley because it was feared that someone might try and kill them. Hindley and her solicitor left Cookham Wood at 4:30am, flew to the moor by helicopter from an airfield near Maidstone, and then were driven, and walked, around the area until 3:00pm. [238] Downey's mother died in 1999 from cancer of the liver. On May 6, 1966, Brady was found guilty of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, John Kilbride, and Edward Evans, while Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans . [187][189], Myra gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die. [30] Hindley began a diary and, although she had dates with other men, some of the entries detail her fascination with Brady, to whom she eventually spoke for the first time on 27 July. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. Lesley Ann Downey was 10 years old when she was kidnapped by Hindley and Brady from a fairground in Manchester on Boxing Day 1964. Hindley befriended George Clitheroe, the President of the Cheadle Rifle Club, and on several occasions visited two local shooting ranges. Ann West's daughter Lesley Ann Downey was killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, after abducting her on Boxing Day 1964. On 1 July, after more than 100days of searching, they found Reade's body 3 feet (0.9m) below the surface, 100 yards (90m) from where Downey's had been found. In Brady's account, Hindley was not only present for the attack, but participated in the sexual assault. [14] Released on 14 November 1957, Brady returned to Manchester, where he took a labouring job which he hated, and was dismissed from another job in a brewery. Brady gave Smith books to read, and the two discussed robbery and murder. He did not refer directly to Bennett by name and did not claim he could take investigators directly to the grave, but spoke of the "clarity" of his recollections. Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. 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. [172] On 7 October the police announced they had ended their search without finding any sign of human remains. On 11 October, she too was arrested and taken into custody. The next day, Brady suggested that the four take a day-trip to Windermere. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. [106] Hindley wrote to her mother: I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. Instead, he accepted the offer of the Press Council to produce a "declaration of principle" which was published in November 1966 and included rules forbidding criminal witnesses being paid or interviewedbut the News of the World promptly rejected the declaration and the Council had no power to enforce its provisions. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. She took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane. Various authors have stated that he tortured animals, although Brady objected to such accusations. [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. "[133], Police visited Hindley then being held in HM Prison Cookham Wood in Kent a few days after she received the letter, and although she refused to admit any involvement in the killings, she agreed to help by looking at photographs and maps to try to identify spots she had visited with Brady. 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. [27] Hindley took weekly judo lessons at a local school, but found partners reluctant to train with her, as she was often slow to release her grip. [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. He was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man. [157], Soon after his first visit to the moor, Brady wrote a letter to a BBC reporter, giving some sketchy details of five additional deaths that he claimed to have been involved in: a man in the Piccadilly area of Manchester, another victim on Saddleworth Moor, two more in Scotland, and a woman whose body was allegedly dumped in a canal. [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. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. [186] Brady subsequently went on hunger strike, but while English law allows patients to refuse treatment, those being treated for mental disorders under the Mental Health Act 1983 have no such right if the treatment is for their mental disorder. I don't think anything could hurt me more than this has. [195], The mother of the remaining undiscovered victim, Keith Bennett, received a letter from Brady at the end of 2005 in which, she said, he claimed that he could take police to within 20 yards (18m) of her son's body but the authorities would not allow it. [87] Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for unemployment benefits. The case featured in two television dramas in 2006, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford.[266][267]. [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. [81], After the murder of Evans, Smith agreed to return the following morning with his baby's pram, to transport the body to the car, before disposing of it on the moor. 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. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. [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. [102] At the committal hearing on 6 December, Brady was charged with the murders of Evans, Kilbride, and Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Evans and Downey, as well as with harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. 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]. [35][40][a] Although Hindley was not a qualified driver (she passed her test on 7 November 1963 after failing three times),[43] she often hired a van, in which the couple planned bank robberies. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a single-bedroom property, and found work in a department store. [226] Such was the strength of feeling more than thirty-five years after the murders that a reported twenty local undertakers refused to handle her cremation. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. Speaking in 2012, Mr West said Mr Brady's death would help him. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. A few months later, she asked her friend to destroy the letter. Hindley's first job was as a junior clerk at a local electrical engineering firm. (From left) John Kilbride, 12, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey Edward Evans, 17, Pauline Reade, 16, and 12-year-old Keith. [246][247], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. Lesley Ann had been kidnapped and murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. schadenfreudeuk.blogspot.co.il 78 17 comments Add a Comment Billykrackin 10 yr. ago Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are know as the "Moor Murderers" They abducted children in the mid 1960's in Manchester, England. [145], At about the same time, Johnson sent Hindley another letter, again pleading with her to assist the police in finding the body of her son Keith. Their home was vandalised, they regularly received hate mail, and Maureen wrote that she could not let her children out of her sight when they were small. The monastery where, as an infant in 1942, Hindley had been baptised a Catholic, had a lasting effect on her. [35] Brady was defended by Emlyn Hooson QC, the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP),[111] and Hindley was defended by Godfrey Heilpern QC, recorder of Salford from 1964; both were experienced Queen's Counsel. [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. Brady later claimed that he had picked up Evans for a sexual encounter. She was in the car, over the brow of the hill, in the bathroom and even, in the case of the Evans murder, in the kitchen"; he felt he "had witnessed a great performance rather than a genuine confession". Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and Hindleya good swimmerwas deeply upset and blamed herself. A former assistant governor claimed that such relationships were not unusual in Holloway at that time, as "many of the officers were gay, and involved in relationships either with one another or with inmates". Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week. The trip to the Lake District was the first of many outings. [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. [127] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. Hodges accompanied the two on their trips to Saddleworth Moor to collect peat, something that many householders on the new estate did to improve the soil in their gardens, which were full of clay and builder's rubble. [170] After seeing a photograph of a jaw bone, a spokesperson for the police said, of the identity of the remains, that it was "far too early to be certain". Their living situation deteriorated further when Hindley's sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946, and the following year five-year-old Myra was sent to live nearby with her grandmother. The bouffanted blonde and the strutting clothes horse-killer had no human feelings as they took the life of the child. [142] The tape recording of her statement was over seventeen hours long; Topping described it as a "very well worked out performance in which, I believe, she told me just as much as she wanted me to know, and no more". 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. En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. Published: 17:36 ET, Feb 21 2022 EVIL Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley have long been branded Britain's most evil duo after murdering five children. 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. One such victim was Stephen Jennings, a three-year-old West Yorkshire boy who was last seen alive in December 1962; his body was found buried in a field in 1988, but the following year his father, William Jennings, was found guilty of his murder. [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. [116] Comparing Smith's testimony with his initial statements to police, Atkinsonthough describing the paper's actions as "gross interference with the course of justice"concluded it was not "substantially affected" by the financial incentive. [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". Please join us in visiting the famous grave of Lesley Ann Downey.Respect and Recog. Getty Images Once presented with some of the details that Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply. He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. Lesley Ann Downey was just 10-years-old when she was killed by Hindley and Brady, after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964. 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. [249] Bennett's mother continued to visit Saddleworth Moor, where it is believed that Bennett is buried. [190] In the book, Brady recounted his friendship in prison with the "teacup poisoner" Graham Young, who shared Brady's admiration for Nazi Germany. Hindley had difficulty connecting what she saw to her memories, and was apparently nervous of the helicopters flying overhead. [121], The sixteen-minute tape recording[97][c] of Downey, on which the voices of Brady and Hindley were audible, was played in open court. [253], Manchester City Council decided in 1987 to demolish the house in which Brady and Hindley had lived on Wardle Brook Avenue, and where Downey and Evans were murdered, citing "excessive media interest [in the property] creating unpleasantness for residents".

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