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. The case featured in two television dramas in 2006, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford. This was the first time Brady and Smith had met properly, and Brady was apparently impressed by Smith's demeanour. [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [140] DCS Topping continued to visit Hindley in prison, along with her solicitor Michael Fisher and her spiritual counsellor, Peter Timms, who had been a prison governor before becoming a Methodist minister. Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had murdered Kilbride. [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. Testing her blind allegiance, Brady hatched plans of rape and murder. In 1970, Hindley severed all contact with Brady and, still professing her innocence, began a lifelong campaign to regain her freedom. The excursion caused a furore in the national press and earned Wing an official rebuke from the then-Home Secretary Robert Carr. [128] 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. [224][225] Camera crews "stood rank and file behind steel barriers" outside, but none of Hindley's relatives were among the small congregation of eight to ten people who attended a short service at Cambridge crematorium. In 1980, Maureen suffered a brain haemorrhage; Hindley was allowed to visit her in hospital, but arrived an hour after her death. [266] Manchester band The Smiths' song "Suffer Little Children", from their 1984 self-titled debut album, was also inspired by the case. Finally, in October 1965, police were alerted to the duo by Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith. 1 Comments. [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". When Myra was young, her father beat her up regularly, but he also trained her how to battle. He was taken to the moor on 3 July but seemed to lose his bearings, blaming changes in the intervening years; the search was called off at 3:00 pm, by which time a large crowd of press and television reporters had gathered on the moor. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. Bob served in a parachute regiment during World War II so was absent for the majority of the first three years of Hindley's life. Myra Hindley did not have a child at the time. [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. [177] The November 2007 death of John Straffen, who had spent 55 years in prison for murdering three children, meant that Brady became the longest-serving prisoner in England and Wales. The four victims had . [30] In 2008 Hindley's solicitor, Andrew McCooey, reported that she told him: I ought to have been hanged. [84] As Brady was getting dressed, he said, "Eddie and I had a row and the situation got out of hand. 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. Born on July 23, 1942, in Manchester, England, Hindley grew up with her grandmother. Child killer Myra Hindley accused fellow Moors Murderer Ian Brady of drugging, raping and beating her. For the punk band, see, Brady and Hindley after their arrests in October1965, Brady told the police thirty years later that everything he had ever done was in. [190] In the book, Brady recounted his friendship in prison with the "teacup poisoner" Graham Young, who shared Brady's admiration for Nazi Germany. The child had been earning some pocket money in the market, and was offered a lift home by Hindley. The two remained in sporadic contact for several months,[205] but Hindley had fallen in love with one of her prison warders, Patricia Cairns. She, along with her partner Ian Brady, killed five children burying them on the Manchester Mo He was picked up by a police car from the phone box and taken to Hyde police station, where he told officers what he had witnessed in the night. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. While her older sister, Myra, moved next door with their grandma, Ellen Maybury. . Ian Brady, who had been . [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. [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. Brady was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and locked up in a Ashworth secure mental hospital, on Merseyside. When Brady arrived on his motorcycle, Hindley told Reade he would be helping in the search. [173], Following his conviction Brady was moved to HM Prison Durham, where he asked to live in solitary confinement. [146] Hindley made her second visit to the moor in March 1987. I hope she goes to Hell. [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. [236], Maureen and her immediate family made regular visits to see Hindley, who reportedly adored her niece. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. [147] Hindley confirmed to police that the two areas in which they were concentrating their searchHollin Brown Knoll and Hoe Grainwere correct, although she was unable to locate either of the graves. He left the academy aged 15 and took a job as a tea boy at a Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. Over a period of 18 months in the 1960s, Brady and his accomplice, Myra Hindley, kidnapped and murdered five children in north-west England. What they were doing was out of the scope of most people's understanding, beyond the comprehension of the workaday neighbours who were more interested in how they were going to pay the gas bill or what might happen in the next episode of Coronation Street or Doctor Who. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. [35], In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett,[126] something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey. 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. [213][260] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. Maureen managed to repair the relationship with her mother, and moved into a council property in Gorton. I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago, and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin. [28], In January 1961, the 18-year-old Hindley joined Millwards as a typist. The 14-year-old girl had suffered a turbulent childhood. She died of respiratory failure on November 16, 2002. Hindley's first job was as a junior clerk at a local electrical engineering firm. Eight days after he failed to return home, 2,000volunteers scoured waste ground and derelict buildings. When I ran in I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. [58] On Hindley's 23rd birthday, her sister and brother-in-law, who had until then been living with relatives, were rehoused in Underwood Court, a block of flats not far from Wardle Brook Avenue. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. [243] He remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons,[231][244] and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in 1987. [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. Smith had witnessed Brady killing 17-year-old Edward Evans with an axe, concealing his horror for fear of meeting a similar fate. Downey's mother was at the centre of a campaign to ensure that Hindley was never released from prison, and until her death in February 1999, she regularly gave television and newspaper interviews whenever Hindley's release was rumoured. [239] Shortly before her death at the age of 70, Sheila said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her". [32] (Many sources state that the film was Judgment at Nuremberg, but Hindley recalled it as King of Kings. EXCLUSIVE: Sam Brown vividly recalls her visceral reaction to Steve Coogan. [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. [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. Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley sexually tortured and murdered five children between 1963 and 1965. Brady was found guilty of the murders of Downey, Kilbride and Evans, while Hindley was found guilty of the murders of Downey and Evans, and for harboring Brady, in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. Brady was in the back of the van. [241][242], In 1972, Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from terminal cancer. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. Hindley had difficulty connecting what she saw to her memories, and was apparently nervous of the helicopters flying overhead. [108] National and international journalists covering the trial booked up most of the city's hotel rooms. [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. Childkiller Myra Hindley was a b*tch and I slapped her for singing, says 'Black Widow' Keith Bennett, 12, was on his way to his grandmother's house on June 16, 1964, when Hindley enticed him. At some point Brady sent Hindley to fetch Smith, her brother-in-law. Police found no one who had seen Reade before her disappearance, and although the 15-year-old Smith was questioned by police, he was cleared of any involvement in her death.[49]. He made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in the UK. The next day, Brady suggested that the four take a day-trip to Windermere. [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. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a single-bedroom property, and found work in a department store. The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. The story tells a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case, two young men from well-to-do families who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12-year-old boy, and who escape the death penalty because of their age. Ian Brady was a Scottish serial killer who murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. Myra Hindley was born on the 23rd of July, 1942. Brady was an unusual person with a criminal background, which she was aware of. March 3, 2023 2:01am. They were both jailed for life. Myra Hindley was a serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady. Four months later, 12-year-old John Kilbride disappeared, never to be seen again. [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. [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". [250] Bennett's mother continued to visit Saddleworth Moor, where it is believed that Bennett is buried. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. [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. Myra Hindley, who became one of Britain's most hated women because of her involvement in a string of child killings in the 1960's, died today, the Prison Service said. Keith Bennett disappeared on 16 June 1964. [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. Even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison, partly for fear for Hindley's safety. His body was found in October 1965. In June 1964, 12-year-old Keith Bennett followed. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. The murders of Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade were not attributed to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady until 1985, after "Suffer Little Children" had already been released. 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. BURY ST EDMUNDS, England -- Moors murderer Myra Hindley spent more than half her life in prison for crimes which shocked Britain and made her a national hate figure. Keith Bennett [109] Onlookers some travelling for hours would stand outside Chester Assizes every day during the trial. [57] By February 1965, Hodges had stopped visiting Wardle Brook Avenue, but Smith was still a regular visitor. [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. How many children did Ian Brady and Myra Hindley kill? [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. [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". [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. [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. [73], Brady and Hindley visited a funfair in Ancoats on 26 December 1964 and noticed that 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey was apparently alone. I wanted her to suffer like I have. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. [35] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. The pair were convicted of murdering five children, although the true number will never be known. Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor. [77] Throughout the previous year Brady had been cultivating a friendship with Smith, who had become "in awe" of Brady, something that increasingly worried Hindley as she felt it compromised their safety.[78]. [254], 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". There were always suspicions there may have been more. [97], Also among the photographs in the suitcase were a number of scenes of the moors. "[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. Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. [219] Hindley's release seemed imminent and plans were made by supporters for her to be given a new identity. [208], Hindley was told that she should spend twenty-five years in prison before being considered for parole. [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. It was displayed at the Sensation exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. She took a job at Bratby and Hinchliffe, an engineering company in Gorton, but was dismissed for absenteeism after six months. [19], Hindley's father had served with the Parachute Regiment and was stationed in North Africa, Cyprus and Italy during the Second World War. [135] Home Secretary Douglas Hurd agreed with DCS Topping that a visit would be worth risking despite security problems presented by threats against Hindley. 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. [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. Between 1963 and 1965, Myra Hindley and her lover Ian Brady lured four children Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, and Lesley Ann Downey into their car under the pretense of giving them a ride home. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. When Hindley was aged about eight, a local boy scratched her cheeks, drawing blood. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. As a child, she lived with Nellie Hindley in a little two-up, two-down semi-detached house. For Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.[45]. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. [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. They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. [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. The investigation was headed by Superintendent Tony Brett, and initially looked at charging Hindley with the murders of Reade and Bennett, but the advice given by government lawyers was that because of the DPP's decision taken fifteen years earlier, a new trial would probably be considered an abuse of process. 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. [117], Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty;[118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. The show was picketed by the. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. [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. Myra is a large painting which is a reproduction of the mugshot of Myra Hindley shortly after she was arrested for her participation in the Moors murders and was created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. Brady later claimed that he had picked up Evans for a sexual encounter. [238] Downey's mother died in 1999 from cancer of the liver. Hindley befriended George Clitheroe, the President of the Cheadle Rifle Club, and on several occasions visited two local shooting ranges. She worked as a clerk at an . He was facing upwards. He arrived home around 3:00a.m. and asked his wife to make a cup of tea, which he drank before vomiting and telling her what he had witnessed. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. [167], On 30 September 2022, Greater Manchester Police began a search for human remains on the moor after receiving information from amateur investigator and author Russell Edwards,[168][169] who had reportedly found a skull. [230], David Smith became "reviled by the people of Manchester"[231] for financially profiting from the murders. [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. [213] Then Home Secretary David Waddington imposed a whole life tariff on Hindley in July 1990, after she confessed to having been more involved in the murders than she had admitted. Hindley and Brady were brought to trial on April 27, 1966, where they pleaded not guilty to the murders of Evans, Downey and Kilbride. After about thirty minutes Brady returned alone, carrying a spade that he had hidden there earlier, and, in response to Hindley's questions, said that he had sexually assaulted Bennett and strangled him with a piece of string. [265], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. 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. 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. [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. Detectives searched under the floorboards of the Johnsons' house, and on discovering that the houses in the row were connected, extended the search to the entire street. [100], The investigating officers suspected Brady and Hindley of murdering other missing children and teenagers who had disappeared from areas in and around Manchester over the previous few years, and the search for bodies continued after the discovery of Kilbride's body, but with winter setting in it was called off in November. They were convicted of three murders in 1966, and confessed to two further. 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". Ian was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 2, 1938. [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". View this post on Instagram A post shared by I Could Murder A Podcast (@couldmurderapod) [240] It was a threat repeated by her son Danny. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. [196], In 2012, Brady applied to be returned to prison, reiterating his desire to starve himself to death. He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. She was present, under heavy sedation, at the funeral of her daughter on 7 August 1987. [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. [87] Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for unemployment benefits. [134] She showed particular interest in photos of the area around Hollin Brown Knoll and Shiny Brook, but said that it was impossible to be sure of the locations without visiting the moor. 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. [249] Five years after their son was murdered, Sheila and Patrick Kilbride divorced. In Brady's account, Hindley was not only present for the attack, but participated in the sexual assault. [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. None of Maureen's relatives attended. [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. Their crime was the most hideous and cruel in modern times. She was 60. [101], Presented with the evidence of the tape recording, Brady admitted to taking the photographs of Downey, but insisted that she had been brought to Wardle Brook Avenue by two men who had subsequently taken her away again, alive. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. The young Smith was similarly impressed by Brady, who throughout the day had paid for his food and wine.
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