[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". A judge later called his crimes 'wicked' Ian Brady, pictured around 1963, aged 25 Edward Evans was among Brady's victims, beaten to death with an axe Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and John Kilbride, 12 . Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride. Ann West's daughter Lesley Ann Downey was killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, after abducting her on Boxing Day 1964. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago, and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin. For Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.[45]. [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. In total the depraved couple murdered and raped five. [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. Pilot) [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. "[139], On 19 December, David Smith, then 38, spent about four hours on the moor helping police identify additional areas to be searched. [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". Ian Brady - Death, Victims & Myra Hindley - Biography moors murders lesley ann downey [19], Hindley's father had served with the Parachute Regiment and was stationed in North Africa, Cyprus and Italy during the Second World War. [68] When Hindley asked Brady whether he had raped Reade, Brady replied, "Of course I did." [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. Brady returned alone after about thirty minutes, and took Hindley to the spot where Reade lay dying; Reade's clothes were in disarray and she had been nearly decapitated[67] by two cuts to the throat, including a four-inch incision across her voice box "inflicted with considerable force" and into which the collar of her coat and a throat chain had been pushed. The two talked about society, the distribution of wealth, and the possibility of robbing a bank. She took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane. Brother of Moors murderers' victim Lesley Ann Downey admits he will 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. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. [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. [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. [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. 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]. 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. [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. Ian Brady: Moors murderer dies in psychiatric hospital aged 79 She also asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly often bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable. Mrs West, 69, died at her home in Fallowfield, Manchester, on Tuesday. 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. [206] Hindley successfully petitioned to have her status as a Category A prisoner changed to Category B, which enabled Governor Dorothy Wing to take her on a walk round Hampstead Heath, part of her unofficial policy of reintroducing her charges to the outside world when she felt they were ready. 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. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. In 1987 Hindley had stopped claiming her innocence and confessed to all of the murders. [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. [200] Brady had refused food and fluids for more than forty-eight hours on various occasions, causing him to be fitted with a nasogastric tube, although his inquest noted that his body mass index was not a cause for concern. Amidst strong media interest Lord Longford pleaded for her release, writing that continuing her detention to satisfy "mob emotion" was not right. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. [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. [87] Over the next four days Hindley visited her employer and asked to be dismissed so that she would be eligible for unemployment benefits. I heard the blow, it was a terrible hard blow, it sounded horrible. [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. [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. [112][113], Smith was the chief prosecution witness. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. A photograph of Moors murder victim Lesley Ann Downey, bound and gagged during a torture session, is to be shown on television for the first time. [240] It was a threat repeated by her son Danny. Moors Murders victim Lesley Ann Downey - December 26 1964. The prosecution's opening statement was held in camera rather than in open court,[103] and the defence asked for a similar stipulation but was refused. Ann's 10 year old daughter Lesley Ann Downey was murdered on Boxing Day 1964 in Manchester England by 2 monsters who killed 4 other children, John Kilbride 12, Pauline Reade 16, Keith Bennett 12 and Edward Evans 17. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. 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. [173], Following his conviction Brady was moved to HM Prison Durham, where he asked to live in solitary confinement. 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. 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 . En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. The killer, who was obsessed with the 1960s. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. [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. 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. [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. Brady made more than one copy of the tape recording; a reproduction composed of children's handprints, List of serial killers in the United Kingdom, "Beware the cat killers: A revolution in tackling domestic violence has begun", "Death at 60 for the woman who came to personify evil", "Coroner commends police after Moors verdict", "Stepfather of Moors Murder Victim Lesley Ann Downey Dies", "Two women at "bodies on moors" trial cover their ears", "Prosecution tells how a youth of 17 died", "How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial", "How Chester was the focus of the nation during Moors Murderers trial Pt1", "How The Chester Chronicle covered the infamous Moors Murders trial Pt2", "Boy tricked into seeing murder, moors trial Q.C. [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. says", "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", "Ian Brady resumes search for boy's grave", "1987: Moors murderer claims more killings", "Police call off search for Moors murder victim", "Spy satellite used in fresh bid to reveal Moors Murderers final secret", "Moors Murders: Donations fund search for Keith Bennett", "Ian Brady's mental health advocate will not face charges", "Moors Murders: 'Unlock Ian Brady's briefcases' plea", "Police to begin dig for Moors murder victim 58 years after he went missing", "Moors Murders: Search for Keith Bennett's body restarts", "Police dig for Moors victim Keith Bennett after skull reportedly found", "Moors Murders: No remains yet found in search for Keith Bennett", "Search ends for Moors murder victim Keith Bennett after no remains found", "UK's longest-serving prisoner, Straffen, dies", "Force feeding of Ian Brady declared lawful", "Ian Brady will not necessarily kill himself if moved to jail, tribunal hears", "Ian Brady should stay in psychiatric hospital, tribunal rules", "Ian Brady's ashes "not to be scattered at Saddleworth Moor", "Ian Brady: Moors Murderer "would remove feeding tube", "Moors Murderer Ian Brady died of natural causes, coroner confirms", "Moors Murders: Judge rules on Ian Brady body disposal", "Moors Murders: Ian Brady's ashes disposed of at sea", "Thatcher overruled minister to keep Moors murderers locked up for life", "Ian Brady: How the Moors Murderer came to symbolise pure evil", "Howard considers moving Hindley to open prison", "Regina v. 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. Hindley's first job was as a junior clerk at a local electrical engineering firm. [16], Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942[17][18] to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing. Stepfather of Moors Murder victim Lesley Ann Downey dies Keith Bennett disappeared on 16 June 1964. [165] In 2012, it was claimed that Brady may have given details of the location of Bennett's body to a visitor; a woman was subsequently arrested on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful excuse, but a few months later the Crown Prosecution Service announced that there was insufficient evidence to press charges. [117], Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty;[118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. [132] It ended: "I am a simple woman, I work in the kitchens of Christie's Hospital. Brady was also convicted of murdering John Kilbride, while Hindley was convicted of being an. On May 6, 1966, Hindley and Brady were found guilty of the murder of Edward and Lesley Ann. 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. [84] Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. [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. [255] In October 2018 her remains were re-buried at her grave in Gorton Cemetery, Manchester. Hindley, now 57, was jailed for life in May 1966, along with Ian Brady, for the murders of Lesley Ann and Edward Evans, 17. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. The marriage was hastily arranged and performed at a register office. Brother of Moors murder victim reveals guilt over death Keith Bennett, 12, was taken on June 16 1964 after he left home to visit his grandmother, Lesley Ann Downey, ten, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964, and Edward Evans, 17, was killed . 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. (From left) John Kilbride, 12, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey Edward Evans, 17, Pauline Reade, 16, and 12-year-old Keith. He called Brady "wicked beyond belief" and said he saw no reasonable possibility of reform for him, though he did not think the same necessarily true of Hindley once "removed from [Brady's] influence". 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". 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. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. Lesley Ann Downey's last moments were captured by a voice recorder The awful recording which has featured in books since the infamous Moors murders by Brady and deranged girlfriend Myra. [115] During the trial, the judge and defence barristers repeatedly questioned Smith and his wife about the nature of the arrangement. 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". They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. Speaking in 2012, Mr West said Mr Brady's death would help him. . 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. [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. [144], Police visited Brady in prison again and told him of Hindley's confession, which at first he refused to believe. 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. He once offered to donate one of his kidneys to "someone, anyone who needed one",[193] but was blocked from doing so. 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. [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". [250][251][252] She died in August 2012. [187] He was therefore force-fed and transferred to another hospital for tests after he fell ill.[188] Brady recovered and in March 2000 asked for a judicial review of the legality of the decision to force-feed him, but was refused permission. [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". Ian Brady's briefcases (lost personal documents of Moors Murderer; 1963-2017) Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.

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