[107], The 14-day trial began in a specially-prepared court room at Chester Assizes before Justice Fenton Atkinson, on 19 April 1966. I have had enough. Once Kilbride was inside Hindley's hired Ford Anglia car, Brady said they would have to make a detour to their home for the sherry. Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. Morrissey later established a friendship with Ann West, the mother of Moors . [112][113], Smith was the chief prosecution witness. In the letter, Johnson was sympathetic to Hindley over the criticism surrounding her first visit. Terry West, Lesley's older brother, has spoken. In 1987 . As the death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady and Hindley were held on remand, the judge passed the only sentence that the law allowed: life imprisonment. [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. [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. When police returned to the living room they arrested Brady on suspicion of murder. [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". Although five children were murdered in the Moors murders case, only three are named in the song: John Kilbride ("oh John you'll never be a man"), Lesley Ann Downey ("Lesley Ann with your pretty white beads"), and Edward Evans ("Edward, see those alluring lights"). She took the confirmation name of Veronica and received her First Communion in November 1958. [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, who 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. [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. [176], The trial judge recommended that Brady's life sentence should mean life, and successive Home Secretaries agreed with that decision. Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and Hindleya good swimmerwas deeply upset and blamed herself. [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". 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. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. They then took her to Hindley's grandmother's house. [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. [246][247], In 1977, a BBC television debate discussed arguments for and against Hindley's release, with Lord Longford, a Catholic convert, on the side who argued that she should be released, and Downey's mother arguing against her release and threatening to kill her were the release to occur. 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. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. [190] In the book, Brady recounted his friendship in prison with the "teacup poisoner" Graham Young, who shared Brady's admiration for Nazi Germany. When she denied that she had a husband or that a man was in the house, Talbot identified himself. [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". [178], Although Brady refused to work with Ashworth's psychiatrists, he occasionally corresponded with people outside the hospitalsubject to prison authorities' censorship[179] including Lord Longford, writer Colin Wilson, and various journalists. Brady's application was rejected and the judge stated that he "continues to suffer from a mental disorder which is of a nature and degree which makes it appropriate for him to continue to receive medical treatment". He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. Maureen managed to repair the relationship with her mother, and moved into a council property in Gorton. The excursion caused a furore in the national press and earned Wing an official rebuke from the then-Home Secretary Robert Carr. Your search results for moors murders: 4713 newspaper articles contained information about moors murders. [223] She had been diagnosed with angina in 1999 and hospitalised after suffering a brain aneurysm. A few months later, she asked her friend to destroy the letter. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [239] Shortly before her death at the age of 70, Sheila said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her". Hindley later maintained that she went to fill a bath for Downey and found her dead when she returned; Brady claimed that Hindley killed Downey. [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [51], Hindley's sister, Maureen, married David Smith on 15 August 1964. Lesley Ann Downey, who at only ten years old would be their youngest victim, was abducted from a fairground and brought back to the couple's home. [87] Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for unemployment benefits. [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. [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. [68] When Hindley asked Brady whether he had raped Reade, Brady replied, "Of course I did." Some commentators expressed the view that of the two, Hindley was the "more evil". Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her. As reported by The New York Times, the five victims ranged from 17 years old (Edward Evans) to just 10 (Lesley Ann Downey). [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. By then, he claimed, he and Hindley had turned their attention to armed robbery, for which they had begun to prepare by acquiring guns and vehicles. She said that she saw no possibility of release, and also exonerated Smith from any part in the murders other than that of Evans. [191], According to Cowley, Brady regretted Hindley's imprisonment and the consequences of their actions, but not necessarily the crimes themselves. "Rape is not a crime, it's a state of mind, murder is a hobby and a supreme pleasure," these are the words by Marquis de Sade that inspired the Moors Murders. The newlyweds moved into Smith's father's house. [149], Over the next few months interest in the search waned, but Hindley's clue had focused efforts on a specific area. [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. THE MOORS MURDERERS were begged by victim Lesley Ann Downey not to undress her so that she could be set free and reunited with her mother. 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. At their trial in 1966, all-male jurors fell silent for 16 minutes as the tape recording of Lesley Ann Downey's terrified last moments was played to the court. [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. The pleas of 10-year-old. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. [233] After declining to prosecute the News of the World, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones came under political pressure to impose new regulations on the press, but was reluctant to legislate on "chequebook journalism". 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. When Hindley was aged about eight, a local boy scratched her cheeks, drawing blood. Keith Bennett disappeared on 16 June 1964. [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. [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. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. She became a long-running source of material for the press, which printed embellished tales of her "cushy" life at the "5-star" Cookham Wood Prison and her liaisons with prison staff and other inmates. [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. Eight days after he failed to return home, 2,000volunteers scoured waste ground and derelict buildings. Desperate for another kill, the cruel duo visited a fairground on . Four months after killing Lesley Ann, Brady took Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law David Smith on to the moors. [108] Other elaborate security precautions included a public address system costing 2,500 and 500 worth of telephone equipment. [201] He was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. 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. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. Brady was in the back of the van. [30] In 2008 Hindley's solicitor, Andrew McCooey, reported that she told him: I ought to have been hanged. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick. 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. None of Maureen's relatives attended. 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. "[139], On 19 December, David Smith, then 38, spent about four hours on the moor helping police identify additional areas to be searched. This time, the level of security surrounding her visit was considerably higher. Brady had a girlfriend, Evelyn Grant, but their relationship ended when he threatened her with a flick knife after she visited a dance with another boy. This was the first time Brady and Smith had met properly, and Brady was apparently impressed by Smith's demeanour. I want nothing, my objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. The victims were five children -- Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans -- aged between ten and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. Moors Murderers' Torture Audio (Recorded in 1964) Redirect page. [109] Onlookers some travelling for hours would stand outside Chester Assizes every day during the trial. [5] Aged 9, he visited Loch Lomond with his family, where he reportedly discovered an affinity for the outdoors and a few months later the family moved to a new council house on an overspill estate at Pollok. (sound of door banging) (crackling noise) (footsteps-heavy) (steps across the room and then a recording noise followed by blowing sound into the microphone) [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. [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. "[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. 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". [209] In February 1985, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Brittan that his proposed minimum sentences of thirty years for Hindley and forty years for Brady were too short, saying, "I do not think that either of these prisoners should ever be released from custody. [131] Police nevertheless decided to resume their search of Saddleworth Moor, once more using the photographs taken by Brady and Hindley to help them identify possible burial sites. Visitors to the burial site of 10 year-old murder victim Lesley Ann Downey on Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines, circa 1965. [129] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. 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. [21] Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, has written that Hindley's "relationship with her father brutalised her She was not only used to violence in the home but rewarded for it outside. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. [12] As he was still under 18, Brady was sentenced to two years in a borstal for "training". Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. GMP apologised to the Reade family. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. [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. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. On 11 October, she too was arrested and taken into custody, being charged as an accessory to the murder of Evans and was remanded at HM Prison Risley. The two couples began to see each other more regularly, but usually only on Brady's terms.[59][60]. But Brady, then 28, was given three concurrent life sentences for killing Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and . [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. [38] The couple were regulars at the library, borrowing books on philosophy, as well as crime and torture. [263], 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. [219] Hindley's release seemed imminent and plans were made by supporters for her to be given a new identity. [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 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. [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. [119] Brady admitted to striking Evans with the axe, but claimed that someone else had killed Evans, pointing to the pathologist's statement that his death had been "accelerated by strangulation"; Brady's "calm, undisguised arrogance did not endear him to the jury [and] neither did his pedantry", wrote Duncan Staff. The horror came just after the body of Myra Hindley and Ian . 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. [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. [35] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. [173], Following his conviction Brady was moved to HM Prison Durham, where he asked to live in solitary confinement. [265], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. The Moors Murders case in pictures . [251][252][253] She died in August 2012. [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. [25] Hindley was increasingly drawn to the Roman Catholic Church after she started at Ryder Brow Secondary Modern, and began taking instruction for formal reception into the Church soon after Higgins's funeral. The two talked about society, the distribution of wealth, and the possibility of robbing a bank. At the house Downey was undressed, gagged, and forcibly posed for photographs before being raped and killed, perhaps strangled with a piece of string. In 1980, Maureen suffered a brain haemorrhage; Hindley was allowed to visit her in hospital, but arrived an hour after her death. 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. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region [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. Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week. [255], In November 2017 it was revealed that, without the knowledge of her family, some of the remains of Pauline Reade, including her jaw bone, had been kept at the University of Leeds by Greater Manchester Police. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. [82], Superintendent Bob Talbot of the Stalybridge police division went to Wardle Brook Avenue, accompanied by a detective sergeant. 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. 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. [98] That same day, already being held for the murder of Evans, Brady and Hindley appeared at Hyde Magistrates' Court charged with Downey's murder. [213][260] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. [57] By February 1965, Hodges had stopped visiting Wardle Brook Avenue, but Smith was still a regular visitor. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. The case featured in two television dramas in 2006, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford. [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". [120] Hindley denied any knowledge that the photographs of Saddleworth Moor found by police had been taken near the graves of their victims. But Brady, then 28, was given three concurrent life sentences for killing Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and . [185] In 1999, his right wrist was broken in what he claimed was an "hour-long, unprovoked attack" by staff. I deserved it. [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. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. 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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. When Brady arrived on his motorcycle, Hindley told Reade he would be helping in the search. In 1960s Britain, people did not kidnap and murder children for fun. Please join us in visiting the famous grave of Lesley Ann Downey.Respect and Recog. Actress Lesley-Anne Down has revealed she was almost abducted by a stranger aged 11 in a chilling echo of one of the Moors Murders. The following day, Hindley brought her grandmother back home. [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. [44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. 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. His stepfather, Jimmy Johnson, became a suspect; in the two years following Bennett's disappearance, Johnson was taken for questioning on four occasions. [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. The following morning Brady and Hindley drove with Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor, where she was buried, naked with her clothes at her feet, in a shallow grave. Before the trial, the News of the World newspaper offered 1,000 to Smith for the rights to his story; the American People magazine made a competing offer of 6,000 (equivalent to about 20,000 and 120,000 respectively in 2021). Published 11:30 AM EDT, Fri August 17, 2012. [228][229] The Manchester Evening News reported on possible fears that this would result in visitors choosing to avoid or vandalise the park. Lesley Ann Downey - Arguably, the most horrific murders happened in December 1964. [232] During the trial, Maureeneight months pregnantwas attacked in the lift of the building in which she and Smith lived. The little girl's voice was full of fear. [267][268], According to the 2020 television documentary Rose West & Myra Hindley: Their Untold Story with Trevor McDonald, Hindley and another British serial murderer, Rosemary West, "grew close in jail, bonding over their similar crimes, then had an affair, which cooled as they became rivals to be 'prison royalty.'"[269]. 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