[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. [120] Hindley denied any knowledge that the photographs of Saddleworth Moor found by police had been taken near the graves of their victims. [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. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [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. She took the confirmation name of Veronica and received her First Communion in November 1958. When Hindley was aged about eight, a local boy scratched her cheeks, drawing blood. Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital. [116] Comparing Smith's testimony with his initial statements to police, Atkinsonthough describing the paper's actions as "gross interference with the course of justice"concluded it was not "substantially affected" by the financial incentive. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. Deciding to "better himself", he obtained a set of instruction manuals on book-keeping from a local public library, with which he "astonished" his parents by studying alone in his room for hours. Jones decided not to charge the News of the World on similar grounds. [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". [249] Five years after their son was murdered, Sheila and Patrick Kilbride divorced. 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. [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. [219] Hindley's release seemed imminent and plans were made by supporters for her to be given a new identity. 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. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. [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". [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". [30] In 2008 Hindley's solicitor, Andrew McCooey, reported that she told him: I ought to have been hanged. [213] Then Home Secretary David Waddington imposed a whole life tariff on Hindley in July 1990, after she confessed to having been more involved in the murders than she had admitted. [135] Home Secretary Douglas Hurd agreed with DCS Topping that a visit would be worth risking despite security problems presented by threats against Hindley. 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. The two couples began to see each other more regularly, but usually only on Brady's terms.[59][60]. 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]. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. Brady read books, including Teach Yourself German and Mein Kampf, as well as works on Nazi atrocities. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. Killers Ronnie and Reggie Kray formed a strange secret bond with Ann Downey, the mum of tragic 10-year-old victim Lesley Ann. 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. 3 Evil: Moors Murderer Ian Brady . [171] On 1 October the police reported that no further remains had been found. View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region 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 . [245] Smith died from cancer in Ireland in 2012. Both Hindley and Brady pleaded not guilty at their trial in Chester in April 1966. [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. He was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man. 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. Higgins drowned in the reservoir, and Hindleya good swimmerwas deeply upset and blamed herself. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. [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. They then took her to Hindley's grandmother's house. Hindley drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove. 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. Filter your results by date, publication, region, county, place, type or public tag On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. En route he suggested another detour, this time to search for a glove Hindley had lost on the moor. [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. Lesley was just 10-years-old when she was killed by them after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964 at a fair in Ancoats, Manchester. [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. Brady gave Smith books to read, and the two discussed robbery and murder. Then the screams carried on, one after another really loud. Transcript of the tape with recorded murder of Lesley Ann Downey Man - This is track four. [137], On 16 December 1986, Hindley made the first of two visits to assist the police search of the moor. [162] In mid-2009, the GMP said they had exhausted all avenues in the search for Bennett, that "only a major scientific breakthrough or fresh evidence would see the hunt for his body restart";[163] and that any further participation by Brady would be via a "walk through the moors virtually" using 3D modelling, rather than a visit by him to the moor. [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". She died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison. "[210][211], In 1987, Hindley admitted that the plea for parole she had submitted to the Home Secretary eight years earlier was "on the whole a pack of lies",[212] and to some reporters her co-operation in the searches on Saddleworth Moor "appeared a cynical gesture aimed at ingratiating herself to the parole authorities". 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. 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. In the letter, Johnson was sympathetic to Hindley over the criticism surrounding her first visit. The horror came just after the body of Myra Hindley and Ian . They drove to Brady and Hindley's home at Wardle Brook Avenue, where they relaxed over a bottle of wine. 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. [146] Hindley made her second visit to the moor in March 1987. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. [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. [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. In Brady's account, Hindley was not only present for the attack, but participated in the sexual assault. The Lord Chief Justice agreed with that recommendation in 1982, but in January 1985 Home Secretary Leon Brittan increased her tariff to thirty years. 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[159][160] Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings. 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". [84] Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. She took a job at Bratby and Hinchliffe, an engineering company in Gorton, but was dismissed for absenteeism after six months. Hindley returned with Smith and told him to wait outside for her signal, a flashing light. [15], In January 1959, Brady applied for, and was offered, a clerical job at Millwards, a wholesale chemical distribution company based in Gorton. [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. [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. The only consolation is that some moron might have got hold of Puppet and hurt him. Maureen moved from Underwood Court to a single-bedroom property, and found work in a department store. 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. Detectives searched under the floorboards of the Johnsons' house, and on discovering that the houses in the row were connected, extended the search to the entire street. Lesley Ann Downey was just 10-years-old when she was killed by Hindley and Brady, after they abducted her on Boxing Day 1964. Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick. 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