This time, the level of security surrounding her visit was considerably higher. [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. [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. This was the first time Brady and Smith had met properly, and Brady was apparently impressed by Smith's demeanour. Hindley did not approve of the marriage, and her mother was too embarrassed as Maureen was seven months pregnant. At first, Smith refused to name the newspaper, risking contempt of court; when he eventually identified the News of the World, Jones, as Attorney General, immediately promised an investigation. I wanted her to suffer like I have. [258] Hindley's role in the crimes also violated gender norms: her betrayal of the maternal role fed public perceptions of her "inherent evil", and made her a "poster girl" for moral panics about serial murder and paedophilia in subsequent decades. [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". 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. [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. [172] On 7 October the police announced they had ended their search without finding any sign of human remains. Respect and Recognition to Lesley Ann Downey, victim of the Moors Murders. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. Each was brought before the court separately and remanded into custody for a week. [130], On 3 July 1985, DCS Topping visited Brady, then being held at HM Prison Gartree in Leicestershire, but found him "scornful of any suggestion that he had confessed to more murders". Advertisement. [99] They made a two-minute appearance on 28 October, and were again remanded into custody. Policemen digging at the scene where the body of the fourth victim Lesley Ann Downey was found in 1965. As reported by The New York Times, the five victims ranged from 17 years old (Edward Evans) to just 10 (Lesley Ann Downey). [108] Other elaborate security precautions included a public address system costing 2,500 and 500 worth of telephone equipment. [83] Talbot explained that he was investigating "an act of violence involving guns" that was reported to have taken place the previous evening. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. [148], In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. [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". 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. Lesley Ann Downey, 10, was Ian Brady's youngest victim Credit: Getty Images Evil killers Brady and Myra Hindley played the Christmas classic in the background as 10-year-old Lesley Ann. 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As she wrote later, "At eight years old I'd scored my first victory". [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. Lesley Ann Downey's and John Kilbride's bodies were buried on Saddleworth Moor outside of Manchester. En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. [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 simply beyond the realms of most people's comprehension, and this is why they managed to get away with it for so long. [55] On the same day, Lesley Ann Downey disappeared from a funfair in Ancoats. [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. [86] She refused to make any statement about Evans's death beyond claiming it had been an accident, and was allowed to go home on the condition that she return the next day. This included the murder of Lesley Ann Downey, which was taped by Brady and Hindley that was later recovered by police and used against them in court for a conviction. After being discovered drunk on alcohol he had brewed, he was moved to the much tougher unit in Hull. Various authors have stated that he tortured animals, although Brady objected to such accusations. The lad was still screaming Ian had a hatchet in his hand he was holding it above his head and he hit the lad on the left side of his head with the hatchet. [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. [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. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [66], Once Reade was in the van, Hindley asked her to help in searching Saddleworth Moor for an expensive lost glove; Reade agreed and they drove there. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. [d][182], During several years of interactions with forensic psychologist Chris Cowley, including face-to-face meetings,[183] Brady told him of an "aesthetic fascination [he had] with guns",[184] despite his never having used one to kill. In 2011, he co-authored the book Witness with biographer Carol Ann Lee. The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in the UK. Keith Bennett disappeared on 16 June 1964. 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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. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. 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. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. 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". [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". Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her. [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. [109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. [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". [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]. [146] Hindley made her second visit to the moor in March 1987. Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. Brady later claimed that he had picked up Evans for a sexual encounter. [13] He was sent to Latchmere House in London,[12] and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire. [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. [127], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. [36] In her 30,000-word plea for parole, written in 1978 and 1979 and submitted to Home Secretary Merlyn Rees, Hindley said:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, Within months he [Brady] had convinced me that there was no God at all: he could have told me that the earth was flat, the moon was made of green cheese and the sun rose in the west, I would have believed him, such was his power of persuasion. I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago, and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin. 3 Evil: Moors Murderer Ian Brady . 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. 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. After a few minutes Brady reappeared in the company of 17-year-old Edward Evans, an apprentice engineer who lived in Ardwick, to whom he introduced Hindley as his sister. 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. [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. 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. [164] Donations from the public funded a search by volunteers from a Welsh search and rescue team in 2010. She took a job at Bratby and Hinchliffe, an engineering company in Gorton, but was dismissed for absenteeism after six months. 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. [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. 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. [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. [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. 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. Nine months later, he began working as a butcher's messenger boy. In the heartbreaking case of Lesley, the killers made an infamous recording in which it appears . The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. He made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. 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. 417 Words2 Pages. [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". Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. Moors Murderers' Torture Audio (Recorded in 1964) Redirect page. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a single-bedroom property, and found work in a department store. Ian Brady was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland, as Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 to Margaret "Peggy" Stewart, an unmarried tea room waitress. [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. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. [261] Given Hindley's status as co-defendant in the first serial murder trial held since the abolition of the death penalty,[262] retribution was a common theme among those who sought to keep her locked away. 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. [214] In 1996, the Parole Board recommended that Hindley be moved to an open prison. Desperate for another kill, the cruel duo visited a fairground on . He was facing upwards. Hindley befriended George Clitheroe, the President of the Cheadle Rifle Club, and on several occasions visited two local shooting ranges. 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". Brady already owned a Box Brownie, which he used to take photographs of Hindley and her dog, Puppet, but he upgraded to a more sophisticated model, and also purchased lights and darkroom equipment. 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. Visitors to the burial site of 10 year-old murder victim Lesley Ann Downey on Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines, circa 1965. 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. I want nothing, my objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. [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". Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. [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 investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. Hindley claimed that Brady began to talk about "committing the perfect murder" in July 1963,[47] and often spoke to her about Meyer Levin's Compulsion, published as a novel in 1956 and adapted for the cinema in 1959. [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. [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". [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. Characterised by the press as "the most evil woman in Britain",[1] Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released. [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. Terry West, Lesley's older brother, has spoken. 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". He was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man. She divorced Smith in 1973,[235] and married a lorry driver, Bill Scott, with whom she had a daughter. [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. Filter your results by date, publication, region, county, place, type or public tag 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. [34] Brady then gave her reading material and the pair spent their work lunch breaks reading aloud to one another from accounts of Nazi atrocities. [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. Lesley Ann Downey was Brady and Hindley's youngest victim when she was murdered on 26 December, 1964. On May 6, 1966, Hindley and Brady were found guilty of the murder of Edward and Lesley Ann. lesley ann downey ian brady photo lesley ann downey ian brady photo In 1980, Maureen suffered a brain haemorrhage; Hindley was allowed to visit her in hospital, but arrived an hour after her death. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. [251][252][253] She died in August 2012. [108] National and international journalists covering the trial booked up most of the city's hotel rooms. [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. [219] Hindley's release seemed imminent and plans were made by supporters for her to be given a new identity. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. [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. [135] Home Secretary Douglas Hurd agreed with DCS Topping that a visit would be worth risking despite security problems presented by threats against Hindley. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region [220] Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered the GMP to find new charges against Hindley to prevent her release from prison. Those inside the court sat in silence as. [38] The couple were regulars at the library, borrowing books on philosophy, as well as crime and torture. 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. [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. I have had enough. Transcript of the tape with recorded murder of Lesley Ann Downey Man - This is track four. His mother continued to visit him throughout his childhood. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. Some individuals with deceased relatives have continued to search for their physical remains after the deaths of the murderers. According to Wilson, "it was because these attempts to express remorse were thrown back at him that he began to contemplate suicide". 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. 26 Smith and Hindley's sister Maureen were still grieving the death of their . 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. 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. [187][189], Myra gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die. Hindley's first job was as a junior clerk at a local electrical engineering firm. 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