[112][113], Smith was the chief prosecution witness. [176], The trial judge recommended that Brady's life sentence should mean life, and successive Home Secretaries agreed with that decision. [241][242], In 1972, Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from terminal cancer. Brady was an unusual person with a criminal background, which she was aware of. [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. [106] Hindley wrote to her mother: I feel as though my heart's been torn to pieces. Ian Brady, who had been . None of Maureen's relatives attended. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. [196], In 2012, Brady applied to be returned to prison, reiterating his desire to starve himself to death. [232] During the trial, Maureeneight months pregnantwas attacked in the lift of the building in which she and Smith lived. [177] By that time Hindley claimed to be a reformed Catholic. Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are two of the most infamous murderers in British history.. 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]. [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. By 2 December, Brady had been charged with the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans. [166] In 2017, the police asked a court to order that two locked briefcases owned by Brady be opened, arguing that they might contain clues to the location of Bennett's body; the application was declined on the grounds that no prosecution was likely to result. Even on her death bed, Hindley refused to give . She fell in love with him and soon gave herself over to his total control. 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. Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and Hindleya good swimmerwas deeply upset and blamed herself. [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. I hope she goes to Hell. [173], Following his conviction Brady was moved to HM Prison Durham, where he asked to live in solitary confinement. She was the first child of Bob Hindley and his wife, Hettie. [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. Finally, in October 1965, police were alerted to the duo by Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith. [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". [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. [185] In 1999, his right wrist was broken in what he claimed was an "hour-long, unprovoked attack" by staff. [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. [115] During the trial, the judge and defence barristers repeatedly questioned Smith and his wife about the nature of the arrangement. 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. [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. The pair took photographs of each other that, for the time, would have been considered explicit. Hindley and Brady were brought to trial on April 27, 1966, where they pleaded not guilty to the murders of Evans, Downey and Kilbride. This time, the level of security surrounding her visit was considerably higher. [201] He was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night. [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. [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. The only consolation is that some moron might have got hold of Puppet and hurt him. Their next victim, John Kilbride, was killed on 23 November. [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. The 14-year-old girl had suffered a turbulent childhood. The victims were five childrenPauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward Evansaged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. [109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. [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]. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. Hindley stayed with Reade while Brady retrieved a spade he had hidden nearby on a previous visit, then returned to the van while Brady buried Reade. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. [187][189], Myra gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die. [93][94] Downey's mother later confirmed that the recording, too, was of her daughter. [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. [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. I deserved it. Hindley's 17-year-old. In total, Brady and Hindley murdered five children. He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. The trip to the Lake District was the first of many outings. [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. [143] He added that he "was struck by the fact that [in Hindley's telling] she was never there when the killings took place. In July 1963, they claimed their first victim, Pauline Reade. Many of the photographs taken by Brady and Hindley on the moor featured Hindley's dog Puppet, sometimes as a puppy. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. She was found guilty of three murders and was jailed for life. The case featured in two television dramas in 2006, See No Evil: The Moors Murders and Longford. 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. 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". [164] Donations from the public funded a search by volunteers from a Welsh search and rescue team in 2010. The pair were convicted of murdering five children, although the true number will never be known. Hindley returned with Smith and told him to wait outside for her signal, a flashing light. MOORS Murderer, Myra Hindley was dubbed "the most hated woman in Britain" after her crimes. [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. [39] They also read works by the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche[39] and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. [251][252][253] She died in August 2012. [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]. 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. She was born and raised in Manchester's Gorton, a working-class community. The child had been earning some pocket money in the market, and was offered a lift home by Hindley. [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. [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. 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. Hindley drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove. [127], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. [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. I have always regarded myself as worse than Brady. "[139], On 19 December, David Smith, then 38, spent about four hours on the moor helping police identify additional areas to be searched. She, along with her partner Ian Brady, killed five children burying them on the Manchester Mo We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,.css-47aoac{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:0.0625rem;text-decoration-color:inherit;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:#A00000;-webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;}.css-47aoac:hover{color:#595959;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;}contact us! "[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. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were another ruthless predator couple who preyed on the weakest - children. Their crime was the most hideous and cruel in modern times. [12] As he was still under 18, Brady was sentenced to two years in a borstal for "training". [55] On the same day, Lesley Ann Downey disappeared from a funfair in Ancoats. Stewart had little support and after a few months was forced to give her son into the care of Mary and John Sloan, a local couple with four children of their own. Ian Brady was a Scottish serial killer who murdered multiple children with his girlfriend, Myra Hindley. [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. [150] Brady had been co-operating with the police for some time, and when this news reached him he made a formal confession to DCS Topping,[151] and in a statement to the press said that he too would help police in their search. [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. [148], In April 1987, news of Hindley's confession became public. Hindley, along with her boyfriend Ian Brady . [121], In his closing remarks, Atkinson described the murders as "truly horrible" and the accused as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity";[3] he recommended they spend "a very long time" in prison before being considered for parole, but did not stipulate a tariff. She died of respiratory failure on November 16, 2002. [171] On 1 October the police reported that no further remains had been found. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. Brady was an amazing individual with a lawbreaker background, which she knew. Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride. Myra Hindley did not have a child at the time. [264] Tabloid newspapers branded him a "loony" and a "do-gooder" for supporting Hindley, whom they described as evil. Myra and Ian tortured and murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 and the series shines a light on some of the never-previously-seen prison letters between the killers. 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. [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". [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. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. [189], In 2001, Brady wrote The Gates of Janus, which was published by the US underground publisher Feral House. Bookmark. 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 show was picketed by the. [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. Even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison, partly for fear for Hindley's safety. Best Known For: Myra Hindley was a serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady. In February 1964, she bought a second-hand Austin Traveller, but soon after traded it for a Mini van. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. 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. Hindley led him into the living room, where Brady was lying on a divan, writing to his employer about his ankle injury. According to Wilson, "it was because these attempts to express remorse were thrown back at him that he began to contemplate suicide". At some point Brady sent Hindley to fetch Smith, her brother-in-law. [135] Home Secretary Douglas Hurd agreed with DCS Topping that a visit would be worth risking despite security problems presented by threats against Hindley. [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. She dies on 15 th. In partnership with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five small children. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. [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. In 2011, he co-authored the book Witness with biographer Carol Ann Lee. [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. He made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. Then I heard Myra shout, "Dave, help him," very loud. Ian Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley sexually tortured and murdered five children between 1963 and 1965. British criminal and perpetrator of the infamous "Moors murders". On the evening of 6 October 1965, Hindley drove Brady to Manchester Central railway station, where she waited outside in the car whilst he selected a victim. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. The bodies of two of the victims were discovered in 1965, in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial. 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. When Myra was young, her father beat her up regularly, but he also trained her how to battle. [68] When Hindley asked Brady whether he had raped Reade, Brady replied, "Of course I did." [53] The couple never harmed Hodges, since she lived only a few doors away, which would have made it easy for police to solve any disappearance. 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. When police returned to the living room they arrested Brady on suspicion of murder. As a child, she lived with Nellie Hindley in a little two-up, two-down semi-detached house. Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor. [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". In 1961, she met Ian Brady, a stock clerk who was recently released from prison. 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. The four victims had . This was the first time Brady and Smith had met properly, and Brady was apparently impressed by Smith's demeanour. At various times Hindley gave conflicting statements about the extent to which she, versus Brady, was responsible for Reade being selected as their first victim,[65] but said she felt that there would be less attention given to the disappearance of a teenager than of an 8-year-old. [104] The proceedings continued before three magistrates in Hyde over an eleven-day period during December, at the end of which the pair were committed for trial at Chester Assizes.[35][105]. Astrological Sign: Leo, Death Year: 2002, Death date: November 16, 2002, Article Title: Myra Hindley Biography, Author: Biography.com Editors, Website Name: The Biography.com website, Url: https://www.biography.com/crime/myra-hindley, Publisher: A&E; Television Networks, Last Updated: May 12, 2021, Original Published Date: April 2, 2014. Eight days after he failed to return home, 2,000volunteers scoured waste ground and derelict buildings. [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 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. [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". (1942-2002) Who Was Myra Hindley? Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images, Idaho Murders: What Led Police to Bryan Kohberger, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Myra Hindley, Birth Year: 1942, Birth date: July 23, 1942, Birth City: Manchester, Birth Country: England. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a single-bedroom property, and found work in a department store. I wanted her to suffer like I have. [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. [109] Onlookers some travelling for hours would stand outside Chester Assizes every day during the trial.
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