Sheila and Patrick Kilbride, who were by then divorced, were present at Maureen's funeral, believing that Hindley might make an appearance. Patrick Kilbride mistook Bill Scott's daughter from a previous relationship, Ann Wallace, for Hindley and tried to attack her before being knocked to the ground by another mourner; the police were called to restore order.
Shortly before her death at the age of 70 Sheila Kilbride said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her. In , David Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from an incurable cancer. Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days detention. He remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons, and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in She was present, under heavy sedation, at the funeral of her daughter on 7 August Five years after their son was murdered, Sheila and Patrick Kilbride divorced.
Ann West, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, died in from cancer of the liver. Since her daughter's death, she had campaigned to ensure that Hindley remained in prison and doctors said that the stress had contributed to the severity of her illness. Winnie Johnson, mother of Keith Bennett, continues to visit Saddleworth Moor, where it is believed that the body of her son is buried.
The house in which Brady and Hindley lived on Wardle Brook Avenue, and where Edward Evans was murdered, was demolished by the local council. Hindley died from bronchial pneumonia caused by heart disease, at the age of 60, on 15 November Four months later, Hindley's ashes were scattered by a former lover, a woman she had met in prison, less than 10 miles 16 km from Saddleworth Moor in Stalybridge Country Park.
Fears were expressed that the news might result in visitors choosing to avoid the park, a local beauty spot, or even in the park being vandalised. Less than two weeks after Hindley's death, on 25 November , the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and thus stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences.
A BBC television debate discussed arguments for and against Myra Hindley's release, with contributions from the parents of some of the murdered children. Hindley "shouldered the greater public outrage" because of her gender, and she was popularly assumed to be "the devil incarnate".
The photographs and tape recording of the torture of Lesley Ann Downey, demonstrated in court to a disbelieving audience, and the cool responses of Brady and Hindley, helped to ensure the lasting notoriety of their crimes.
Brady, who says that he does not want to be released, is rarely mentioned in the news, but Hindley's repeated insistence on her innocence, and attempts to secure her release from prison, resulted in her becoming a figure of hate in the national media. Retribution was a common theme amongst those who sought to keep her locked away, and even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison—although out of fear for her daughter's safety, and the desire to avoid the possibility that one of the victims' relatives might kill her.
Some commentators expressed the view that of the two, Hindley was the "more evil". In she admitted that the plea for parole she had submitted to the Home Secretary eight years earlier was "on the whole [ Secret prison files reveal staggering lengths Myra Hindley went to in bid to transform herself in respectable middle-class lady.
THE brassy blonde Moors Murderer took up hobbies such as badminton and pottery and become a practising Catholic in an attempt to convince authorities she had changed her ways. EVIL Moors Murderer Myra Hindley tried to transform herself into a respectable middle-class woman while serving a life sentence behind bars for her sickening crimes. The official files reveal the staggering lengths Hindley went to in her bid to convince authorities she was a reformed character and suitable for release.
But the monster, who with Brady was responsible for the sexual torture and murder of five children in the s, did not fool everyone. Hindley died in aged Her confidential files should have remained secret for 50 years but were released early because of her notoriety. She was put in charge of the kitchen on E wing at Holloway prison in London. But it soon became clear she thought she was better than her fellow inmates. Hindley was 23 when she was jailed for life in May for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17, and for being accessory to the murder of John Kilbride, 12, by Brady.
For the first five years of her sentence, Hindley remained loyal to Glasgow-born psychopath Brady and they wrote to each other. But in , she ended their relationship, having fallen in love with one of her prison officers, former nun Patricia Cairns.
Hindley had been told she would serve 25 years in jail before being considered for parole but began a campaign to show she had reformed.
She befriended famous and influential supporters such as prison reformer Lord Longford and aristocrat David Astor. And she was visited in prison by liberal figures like broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy and Cardinal Basil Hume. Hindley had a string of lesbian lovers in jail, including fellow con Nina Wilde.
She allegedly developed a close relationship with serial killer Rose West. Hindley became a keen student. Hindley built up a circle of followers who did cleaning, fetching and carrying chores for her.
But she got on well with fellow inmates. Hindley enjoyed reading 19th century novels and 20th century poetry. Yet she never lost the ability to manipulate others. Hindley was transferred to Highpoint prison, Suffolk, in and spent her final years in unofficial segregation.
A a-day smoker, she was diagnosed with angina in and suffered a stroke. On November 15, , she died from pneumonia caused by heart disease. Wills had been reluctant to make the call, but this was important. They had called the police early that morning with an incredible story. Talbot assured his wife that he would soon return and they would begin their two-week vacation as planned. What Superintendent Talbot did not know then was that he was about to become involved in one of Britain 's most notorious criminal cases, The Moors Murders.
The date was October 7, When Talbot arrived at Hyde Police Station, he was shown into the Inquiry room where the distressed couple sat drinking tea. David Smith, with the help of his wife Maureen, proceeded to tell his story.
The previous night his sister-in-law, Myra Hindley, had visited the home where he lived with Maureen, his bride of little more than a year, and her mother. Myra had told him that she was afraid to walk home alone in the dark so he agreed to walk with her. When they arrived at Myra 's home, at 16 Wardle Brook Avenue , Manchester , she asked him to come inside as her live-in boyfriend, Ian Brady, had some miniature bottles of wine for him.
He agreed and after entering she left him standing in the kitchen with the wine. As he read the label on one of the bottles, Smith heard a long, loud scream. Myra yelled to him from the living room.
When he first entered the room, he saw Ian Brady holding what David initially thought was a life-size rag doll. As it fell against the couch, not more than two feet away from him, the realisation dawned upon him that it was a young man and not a doll at all. As the young man lay sprawled, face down on the floor, Ian stood over him, his legs apart, holding an axe in his right hand.
The young man groaned. Ian lifted the axe into the air, and brought it down upon the man's head. There was silence for a couple of seconds, and then the man groaned again, only it was much lower this time. Lifting the axe high above his head, Ian brought it down a second time. The man stopped groaning. The only sound he made was a gurgling noise.
Ian then placed a cover over the youth's head and wrapped a piece of electric wire around his neck. As he repeatedly pulled on the wire, Ian kept saying "You fucking dirty bastard," over and over again. When the man finally stopped making any noise, Ian looked up and said to Myra , "That's it, it's the messiest yet. As Myra made them all a cup of tea, she and Brady joked about the look on the young man's face when Brady had struck him. They laughed as they told David about another occasion when a policeman had confronted Myra while they had been burying another of their victims on Saddleworth Moor.
Ian had told David that he had killed some people before but David thought it was just a sick fantasy. This was real. He was horrified and scared for his own safety. He decided that the best thing he could do was to keep calm and go along with them.
He helped them to clean up the mess, tie up the body and put it in the bedroom upstairs. It was not until the early hours of the morning that he had been able to escape, promising to return in the morning to help dispose of the body. Safely back at home, he was violently sick.
He told Maureen everything and together they went to a public phone box to call the police. Two-dozen additional officers were called to the area, just in case. Any concerns that there may be a confrontation were quickly put to rest. Myra reluctantly gave him a key to the upstairs bedroom, the only room in the house that was locked, where the body of a young man was found wrapped in a grey blanket.
The axe described by Smith as the murder weapon was found in the same room. Ian Brady was arrested immediately. At the police station, Brady told police that there had been an argument between himself, David Smith and the victim, year-old Edward Evans. A fight had ensued which soon got out of control.
Smith had hit Evans and kicked him several times. There had been a hatchet on the floor, which Brady said he had used to hit Evans. According to Brady, he and Smith alone had tied up the body. Myra had nothing to do with Evans's death. When Myra was questioned, she supported Brady's story, describing how she had been horrified and frightened by the ordeal.
She was not arrested until four days later, after police had found a three-page document in her car that described in explicit detail how she and Brady had planned to carry out the murder. The investigation would probably have gone no further if Smith had not told police of Brady's claim that he had buried other bodies on Saddleworth Moor. Other references to the same area confirmed Smith's story. A twelve-year-old girl, Pat Hodge, told police that she had often gone with Hindley and Brady up to the moors on picnics, and numerous photos of the moors were found in their home.
Once the area where Brady and Hindley frequented was pinpointed, the digging began. Police believed that the bodies of four children who had mysteriously disappeared over the past two years might have been buried in the moors.
They were proved right on 10 October when the body of year-old Lesley Anne Downey was found. Lesley had disappeared without a trace on 26 December Eleven days after the first discovery, the body of year-old John Kilbride was found. John had disappeared without a trace, on November 11, In , a case such as this was unique.
It was the first time in British history that a woman had been involved in a killing partnership that had involved the serial sex murders of children. The public could not comprehend how any woman could take part in such a horrific crime; her involvement made the crimes seem even more evil and unforgivable.
Myra Hindley. What had driven this young couple to such depths of depravity? While Ian Brady's childhood history reveals many indicators of the troubled young man he grew to be, in Myra 's case few insights can be drawn. How did a seemingly normal child grow into an adult so perverted that she would gain pleasure from the sexual abuse and murder of children?
As her father served in a parachute regiment during the first three years of her life, Myra 's mother raised her alone. They lived with Hettie's mother, Ellen Maybury, who helped to look after Myra while Hettie went to work as a machinist.
When Bob returned they bought their own home just around the corner from Hettie's mother. Bob had trouble re-adjusting to civilian life and would spend most of the time he wasn't working as a labourer, in the local pub. When their second child, Maureen, was born in August , Bob and Hettie, who both worked, found the workload to be too much and decided to send Myra to live with her grandmother.
While the move to her grandmother's home solved many of the family's problems -- Ellen was no longer lonely, the pressure on Bob and Hettie was relieved considerably and Myra enjoyed the devoted attention of her grandmother -- it meant that Myra and her father's relationship never fully developed.
He wasn't an emotionally demonstrative man and his absence during Myra 's formative years created a breach that was never filled. Myra started school at Peacock Street Primary School at the age of five. Here she was considered a mature and sensible girl, although her attendance was poor due to her grandmother's tendency to allow her to stay home on the slightest pretence. Her many absences led to her not gaining the necessary grades to attend the local grammar school. Instead, she went to Ryder Brow Secondary Modern.
Although her poor attendance record continued in high school, she was consistently in the 'A' stream in all her subjects. During this period, she exhibited some talent for creative writing and poetry. She loved sport and athletics and was a good swimmer. In appearance and personality, Myra was not considered particularly feminine and was given the nickname 'Square Arse' because of her broad hips. She was also teased about the shape of her nose. Her reputation as being a mature and sensible girl meant that she was a popular babysitter during her teens.
Parents and children alike were delighted if Myra was to be their babysitter. She was very capable and demonstrated a genuine love of children. At the age of 15, Myra befriended Michael Higgins, a timid and fragile year-old boy whom she looked after and protected as if he were her younger brother.
As far as she was concerned, they would be life-long friends. She was devastated when he drowned in a reservoir, often used as a swimming hole by local children. Her grief was made all the worse by her sense of guilt because she had turned down his offer to go swimming with him that day.
She believed that as she was a strong swimmer she could have saved him. Over the next few weeks, Myra was inconsolable, fluctuating between hysteria and depression. She cried, dressed in black, went to church nightly to light a candle for Michael, and collected money from neighbours for a wreath. Her family was troubled by what they perceived as her over-reaction, telling her that she must control herself.
Her grief was reflected in her conversion to Roman Catholicism, Michael's religion, and the deterioration of her schoolwork. It was not long after Michael's death that she left school, as she was not considered bright enough to stay on to complete her O-levels, despite an IQ of Her first job was as a junior clerk at Lawrence Scott and Electrometers, an electrical engineering firm.
During this time, Myra was much like other Gorton girls in their teens. She would go to dances and cafes, listened to rock 'n' roll, flirted with boys and had the occasional cigarette. Her appearance became more important to her, and it was at this time that she began to bleach her hair and wear dark make-up, in an attempt to appear older. On her seventeenth birthday, she became engaged to Ronnie Sinclair, a local boy who worked as a tea-blender at the local Co-op. Myra 's apparent contentment with her ordinary life did not last for long.
The prospect of her pending marriage caused her to question the lifestyle to which she was expected to conform. After marriage was the purchase of a small house, then would come the children and the years of trying to make ends meet while her husband spent all of their money at the local pub.
Myra knew this was not for her and called off the engagement. She wanted something more exciting. Her search began with an application for entrance forms to the navy and the army, but she never sent them in. She considered working as a nanny in America but never followed it through. She went off to London in search of a job, but that too bore no fruit.
Two years had passed before something new and exciting finally came to her. In January , she met Ian Brady for the first time. Ian Brady.
Ian Brady was born, on 2 January in Gorbals, one of the roughest slums in Glasgow at the time. His mother, Margaret Peggy Stewart was a tearoom waitress in a hotel. Although she was single, she would always sign herself as Mrs. Stewart; as to be an unmarried mother at this time met with strong disapproval. Peggy never disclosed who Ian's father was, except that he was a journalist for a Glasgow newspaper who had died a few months before Ian was born.
With no husband to support her, she found it necessary to continue working as a waitress, even if only part-time. As she was often unable to afford a babysitter, Peggy would sometimes have to leave baby Ian at home alone.
It did not take her long to realise that she could not cope with her baby alone. To solve the problem she advertised for a permanent babysitter to take Ian into their home, providing the care and attention she was unable to give him. Mary and John Sloane answered the advertisement. They had four children of their own and seemed trustworthy and caring. At the age of four months, Ian was unofficially "adopted" by the couple.
Peggy signed over Ian's welfare payments to them and arranged to visit every Sunday. As each Sunday came around Peggy would bring gifts for her growing son but never told him that she was his mother. Mary Sloane was always "auntie" or "ma. Peggy had moved with her new husband, Patrick Brady, to Manchester. The ambiguity of his relationship with his mother and the nature of the arrangements with the Sloanes meant that Ian always felt that he didn't really belong.
Despite the Sloanes' attempts to provide a loving environment, Ian showed no response to their care and attention. Throughout his childhood, he was lonely, difficult, and angry.
Temper tantrums were frequent and extreme, often ending with him banging his head on the floor. At Camden Street Primary School , Brady was considered by his teachers to be a bright child, but he never tried as hard as he could have. The other children saw him as different, secretive and an outsider. He didn't play sport like the other boys and was considered a "sissy.
The Sloanes and Brady remember an incident when he was nine years old. It was to be Ian's first outing out of the Gorbals. They went to the moors of Loch Lomond , where they spent the day picnicking.
After lunch, the Sloanes napped in the grass. When they awoke, Ian was gone. They saw him standing yards away at the top of a steep slope. For an hour, he stood there, silhouetted against the giant sky.
They called and whistled to him but could not attract his attention. When the two Sloane boys climbed the hill to fetch him he told them to go on home without him, he wanted to be alone. On the way home on the bus he was talkative for the first time in his life. For Ian, the time spent alone on that hillside had been a profound experience, one that would influence him into adulthood.
He had felt himself alone at the centre of a vast, limitless territory. It was his. It belonged to him. He was filled with a sense of power and strength. In the midst of all this emptiness, he was master and king. At the age of eleven, Ian passed his entrance exams to Shawlands Academy , a school for pupils with above-average intelligence. His potential was never realised however as he was lazy, would not apply himself, and began to misbehave.
He started smoking, virtually gave up on his schoolwork and before long was in trouble with the police. It was at this time that his fascination with the Second World War, particularly the Nazis, began to emerge. The books he read and the subject of his conversation was always related to Nazis. Even his play was influenced by his obsession, he always insisted on playing a German in war games with his friends. Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, Brady had been charged on three counts of housebreaking and burglary.
On the third occasion, the court decided not to give him a custodial sentence, on the condition that he move to Manchester to live with Peggy and her husband Patrick Brady.
He had not seen Peggy for four years and had never met his stepfather. It was the end of when Brady moved to Moss Side to start again. Living with strangers and having a strong Scottish accent that branded him as different in the community meant that Brady became even more socially withdrawn than ever before. He attempted to gain a sense of belonging to his new family by changing his name from Stewart to Brady, and, although he did not get on particularly well with his stepfather, he took the job that Patrick found for him as a porter at the local market.
The sense that he didn't belong persisted, however, and he searched for direction through his reading. Within books such as Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, the works of Marquis de Sade, and sadistic titles such as Justine, The Kiss of the Whip, and The Torture Chamber, Brady discovered something he could relate to, something exciting. A little over a year after he moved to Moss Side, Brady had returned to a life of crime.
He had left his job at the market and was working in a brewery when he was arrested for aiding and abetting. His employers had discovered that he had been stealing lead seals. The courts were not so lenient this time and he was sentenced to two years in a borstal, an institution for young offenders. There were no places available for three months, so he was sent to Strangeways Prison in Manchester , where at the age of seventeen, he learned quickly to toughen up.
He was moved to Hatfield borstal in Yorkshire where the regime was much lighter. Brady, taking advantage of the reduction in security began brewing and drinking his own alcohol and running gambling books. A drunken scuffle with a warder landed him in a much harder borstal in Hull Prison. Here he actively set out to learn more of the criminal way of life, from which he intended to make a great deal of money.
His expectations were so high that he even took courses in bookkeeping. When he was released in November , his family noticed that he was even more silent and brooding than before.
He was unemployed for several months before he obtained work as a labourer for six months. While he continued in his attempts to find a criminal scheme that would make him rich, he decided to put his bookkeeping skills to legitimate use. In , he began work as a stock clerk with Millwards Merchandising. A little more than a year later, a new secretary arrived. Birds of A Feather. For Myra , their first meeting was the beginning of an "immediate and fatal attraction. Compared to Brady, the likes of Ronnie Sinclair were dull, naive, and unambitious.
Every night, she would write in her diary of her intense longing for Brady, a longing that would remain unfulfilled for some time. As she fluctuated from "loving him to hating him," Brady remained steadfastly disinterested for a year. At the office Christmas party, Brady, relaxed by a few drinks, asked Hindley for their first date.
It was to be the beginning of her initiation into his secret world. That first night he took her to see The Nuremberg Trials. As the weeks went by, he played her records of Hitler's marching songs and encouraged her to read some of his favourite books - Mein Kampf, and Crime and Punishment, and de Sade's works. Hindley happily complied. She had waited for so long for something different and now here it was. Her inexperience and hunger left her incapable of distinguishing which of her new experiences were healthy and those that were dangerous.
Brady became her first lover and she was soon totally besotted with him, soaking up all of his distorted philosophical theories. Her greatest desire was to please him. She even changed the way she dressed for him, in Germanic style, with long boots and mini skirts, and bleached hair. She allowed him to take pornographic photographs of her, and the two of them having sex. With such a devoted audience, Brady's ideas became increasingly paranoid and outrageous, but Hindley was without discernment.
When he told her there was no God, she stopped going to church, and when he told her that rape and murder were not wrong, that in fact murder was the "supreme pleasure," she did not question it. Her personality had become totally fused with his. Family, friends and colleagues quickly noticed the changes in her. At work she became surly, overbearing, and aggressive, and began to wear "kinky" clothes. Her sister Maureen testified in court that, after meeting Brady, Myra no longer lived a normal life with dances and girlfriends, instead she became secretive and claimed she hated babies, children and people.
Early in , Brady put Hindley's blind acceptance of his ideas to the test. He began planning a bank robbery and needed her to be his get-away driver. Immediately, Hindley began driving lessons, joined the Cheadle Rifle club and purchased two guns. The robbery was never carried out, but Brady's purpose had been fulfilled. Myra had shown herself willing. Brady knew she was ready to cement their relationship. In Brady's mind he was like Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, he had "reached the stage where, whatever came to mind, get out and do it.
I led the life that other people could only think about. Without A Trace. Pauline Reade was on her way to a dance at the Railway Workers' Social Club on the night she disappeared.
Originally, she had planned to go with her three girlfriends, Linda, Barbara, and Pat, but at the last minute, when their parents learned that there would be alcohol available, they pulled out. Determined not to miss out on the dance, Pauline decided to go alone.
At eight o'clock Pauline, dressed in her prettiest pink party dress, left home. What Pauline didn't know was that her girlfriend, Pat, and another friend Dorothy had seen her leave.
Curious to see whether she would really have the nerve to go to the dance alone, Pat and Dorothy followed her. When they were almost at the Club, the two girls decided to take a short cut so they could arrive at the club before Pauline.
They waited for her but she never arrived. When Pauline had still not arrived home at midnight, her parents, Joan and Amos went out to look for her. They called the police the next morning when the nightlong search had failed to find any trace of their daughter. A police search proved to be just as fruitless.
It seemed that Pauline had simply disappeared. The second child disappeared on 11 November Twelve-year-old John Kilbride and his friend John Ryan had gone to the local cinema for the afternoon. When the film finished at 5 o'clock, they went to the market in Ashton-Under-Lyne to see if they could earn some pocket money helping the stallholders to pack up. John Ryan left John Kilbride standing beside a salvage bin near the carpet dealer's stall to go and catch his bus home.
It was the last time that anyone saw John Kilbride. When John did not return home for dinner, his parents Sheila and Patrick called the police.
For the second time, a major search was conducted, with police and thousands of volunteers combing the surrounding area for any clue as to John's disappearance. No sign was found. All his parent's knew was that John didn't come home. The move to Highpoint will bring her nearer to a close female friend. Transfer is routine practise says the Prison Service But security has been tightened significantly in recent years.
Mr Straw said he was alarmed at the considerable media attention the decision had attracted and said transfers were a matter of course for life prisoners. This is not an open prison at all, it's a closed prison. Inside the medium security Highpoint jail "It is bound to be good news. It is some time since the Parole Board recommended that Myra should go to an open prison," he said. Just a few weeks ago the High Court upheld a decision by the Home Secretary that means Hindley will probably spend the rest of her life in jail.
Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, said she could be lawfully kept behind bars until she dies. Hindley, along with her partner Ian Brady, were jailed for life in May for a series of child murders which shattered the innocence of s Britain. Brady was convicted of the sexual abuse, torture and murder of three youngsters, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, Edward Evans, 17, and John Kilbride, 12; Hindley was found guilty of killing Downey and Evans, and of shielding Brady after Kilbride's murder.
In , they confessed to killing Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, His body has never been recovered. Her death was greeted with both relief and anger by the families of her victims. Bennett's mother, Winnie Johnson, who has begged Hindley to reveal where her son is buried, said: "I hope she rots in hell I always hoped she would be able to tell me, at least something of what I wanted to know, and I've never given up that hope.
I want him back and buried in a proper grave. Danny Kilbride, brother of John Kilbride, said Hindley's death would do little to ease the family's continued sense of loss.
It's like a dagger, it digs right in and it will still dig in even though she is dead. Phil Woolas, the Labour MP whose constituency covers Saddleworth moor, where Brady and Hindley's victims were buried, said: "Whilst nobody would wish anybody suffering and pain, it is with a sense of relief that we can now begin to put this nightmare behind us.
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