[44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. [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. Brady, who said that he did not want to be released, was rarely mentioned in the news, but Hindley's insistent desire to be released made her a figure of public hateespecially as she failed to confess to involvement in the Reade and Bennett murders for twenty years. [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. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. 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. A huge search was undertaken, with over 700statements taken, and 500"missing" posters printed. [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. The monastery where, as an infant in 1942, Hindley had been baptised a Catholic, had a lasting effect on her. Hindley returned with Smith and told him to wait outside for her signal, a flashing light. [256] In October 2018 her remains were re-buried at her grave in Gorton Cemetery, Manchester. Desperate for another kill, the cruel duo visited a fairground on . Lesley Ann Downey was just 10-years-old when she was killed by Hindley and Brady, after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964. [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. [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. 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. After being discovered drunk on alcohol he had brewed, he was moved to the much tougher unit in Hull. [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. Visitors to the burial site of 10 year-old murder victim Lesley Ann Downey on Saddleworth Moor in the South Pennines, circa 1965. [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. [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]. 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. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. [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. The Lord Chief Justice agreed with that recommendation in 1982, but in January 1985 Home Secretary Leon Brittan increased her tariff to thirty years. [129] This followed claims in 2004 that Hindley had told another inmate that she and Brady had murdered a sixth victim, a teenage girl. 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. [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. [189], In 2001, Brady wrote The Gates of Janus, which was published by the US underground publisher Feral House. 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. Instead, he accepted the offer of the Press Council to produce a "declaration of principle" which was published in November 1966 and included rules forbidding criminal witnesses being paid or interviewedbut the News of the World promptly rejected the declaration and the Council had no power to enforce its provisions. [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. The following day, Hindley brought her grandmother back home. [84] As Brady was getting dressed, he said, "Eddie and I had a row and the situation got out of hand. Terry West, Lesley's older brother, has spoken. 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"). 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. 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. [61], On 12 July 1963, Brady told Hindley that he wanted to commit the "perfect murder". [257], The photographs and tape recording of the torture of Downey exhibited in court, and the nonchalant responses of Brady and Hindley, helped to ensure their lasting notoriety. 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. Their next victim, John Kilbride, was killed on 23 November. She divorced Smith in 1973,[235] and married a lorry driver, Bill Scott, with whom she had a daughter. 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. [191], According to Cowley, Brady regretted Hindley's imprisonment and the consequences of their actions, but not necessarily the crimes themselves. Between December 1997 and March 2000, Hindley made three separate appeals against her life tariff, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but each was rejected by the courts. [159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. [117], Both Brady and Hindley entered pleas of not guilty;[118] Brady testified for over eight hours, Hindley for six. Subjected to whispering campaigns and petitions to remove her from the estate where she lived, Maureen received no support from her familyher mother had supported Myra during the trial. [28], In January 1961, the 18-year-old Hindley joined Millwards as a typist. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. In 1966, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were convicted of the abduction, sexual assault and murder of Lesley Ann Downey (10), John Kilbride (12) and Edward Evans (17). Even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison, partly for fear for Hindley's safety. 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 Moors Murders are so named because of their association with Saddleworth Moor, in the Greater Manchester, England area. 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. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. lesley ann downey ian brady photo lesley ann downey ian brady photo Lesley Ann Downey - Arguably, the most horrific murders happened in December 1964. Keith Bennett disappeared on 16 June 1964. I don't think anything could hurt me more than this has. 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. [107], The 14-day trial began in a specially-prepared court room at Chester Assizes before Justice Fenton Atkinson, on 19 April 1966. 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. [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. 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. [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". The murders have this name because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, more than 20 years after Brady and Hindley's trial in . [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. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. 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. At some point Brady sent Hindley to fetch Smith, her brother-in-law. Hindley was apparently jealous of their friendship, but became closer to her sister. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley made Lesley Ann Downey their next victim. 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. Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. Nine months later, he began working as a butcher's messenger boy. He was sent to Strangeways for three months. When Hindley was aged about eight, a local boy scratched her cheeks, drawing blood. [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. [39] They also read works by the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche[39] and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. As reported by The New York Times, the five victims ranged from 17 years old (Edward Evans) to just 10 (Lesley Ann Downey). They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. [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. [7] Brady was accepted for Shawlands Academy, a school for above-average pupils. Hindley had difficulty connecting what she saw to her memories, and was apparently nervous of the helicopters flying overhead. [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. Please, Miss Hindley, help me. [80] Brady sprained his ankle in the struggle, and Evans's body was too heavy for Smith to carry to the car on his own, so they wrapped it in plastic sheeting and put it in the spare bedroom. Please join us in visiting the famous grave of Lesley Ann Downey.Respect and Recog. 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