[101], Presented with the evidence of the tape recording, Brady admitted to taking the photographs of Downey, but insisted that she had been brought to Wardle Brook Avenue by two men who had subsequently taken her away again, alive. She asked. On the same day that John Kilbride's body was discovered Brady and Hindley were charged with the murders of Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and appeared separately at Hyde court. By the time she was 15, Down had completed four films and was voted "Britain's Most Beautiful Teenager". 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. [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. She did, however, manage to purchase a Webley .45 and a Smith & Wesson .38 from other members of the club. 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. [263] Tabloid newspapers branded him a "loony" and a "do-gooder" for supporting Hindley, whom they described as evil. It was a pretext to lure out her brother-in-law David, then 17, whom Brady had been trying to groom as a partner-in-crime. [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". [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. 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[26] At 17, she became engaged after a short courtship, but called it off several months later after deciding the young man was immature and unable to provide her with the life she wanted. The death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady. Former policeman Norman Brennan, who represented Lesley Ann's Hindley later maintained that she went to fill a bath for Downey and found her dead when she returned; Brady claimed that Hindley killed Downey. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. Archive images document one of the darkest episodes in our region's history. They also contained photos, including those of Lesley Ann - and the recordings of her final moments. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. View gallery. 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. Ian Brady and his biological mother Maggie Stewart, Circa 1962. Call us toll free 0800 1800 900. [238] Downey's mother died in 1999 from cancer of the liver. Pauline Reade would not be found until 1987, the year Hindley and Brady, pictured here during a search of Saddleworth Moor in July of that year, finally admitted to murdering her and Keith Bennett. Ian Brady: Yes. In total the depraved couple murdered and raped five children and teenagers during a killing spree which lasted from July 1963 to October 1965. Ian Brady and his biological mother Maggie Stewart, Circa 1962. [233] After declining to prosecute the News of the World, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones came under political pressure to impose new regulations on the press, but was reluctant to legislate on "chequebook journalism". The trip to the Lake District was the first of many outings. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. Born 1954 in Wandsworth, South West London, English actress, former model, and singer Lesley-Anne Down began acting and modelling, and in her teenaged years won several beauty pageants. For warped killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley had the tune playing in the background of harrowing tape recordings of victim Lesley Ann Downey, 10, pleading for her life. His body remains undiscovered. 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. 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. On one of these occasions, she found an envelope belonging to Brady which she burned in an ashtray; she claimed she did not open it but believed it contained plans for bank robberies. The story tells a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case, two young men from well-to-do families who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12-year-old boy, and who escape the death penalty because of their age. By December 2, Brady had been charged with the murders of John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. I really thought he was going to kill me", Ashley Roberts stuns fans as she accidentally flashes in braless appearance for snap alongside Amanda Holden, The Pussycat Doll still shared the snap of herself alongside her Heart radio co-star - with a little edit. 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. jake@miresball.com [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. Reade 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. For warped killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley had the tune playing in the background of harrowing tape recordings of victim Lesley Ann Downey, 10, pleading for her life. [4] The identity of Brady's father has never been reliably ascertained, although his mother said he was a reporter working for a Glasgow newspaper who died three months before Brady was born. [35] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. [253], 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". [102] At the committal hearing on 6 December, Brady was charged with the murders of Evans, Kilbride, and Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Evans and Downey, as well as with harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. [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. Pauline, a schoolmate of Hindley's sister Maureen, was abducted after Hindley offered to give her a lift on Foxmer Street in Gorton. [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. Ann West, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, murder victim, killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, pictured 14th December 1965. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. [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. [163] It was stated 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. Ann Downey, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, pictured at a fairground on July 17, 1965, searching for clues to her daughter's disappearance. Brady and Hindley were jailed for life for the killings of John Kilbride, 12, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans, 17. Brady had a girlfriend, Evelyn Grant, but their relationship ended when he threatened her with a flick knife after she visited a dance with another boy. [83] Talbot explained that he was investigating "an act of violence involving guns" that was reported to have taken place the previous evening. [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 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. View gallery. [66], Once Reade was in the van, Hindley asked her to help in searching Saddleworth Moor for an expensive lost glove; Reade agreed and they drove there. [87], Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Hindley had been involved in the disappearances of other young people. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. [220] Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered the GMP to find new charges against Hindley to prevent her release from prison. 9th May 1966. Their living situation deteriorated further when Hindley's sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946, and the following year five-year-old Myra was sent to live nearby with her grandmother. [217][218], When in 2002 another life sentence prisoner challenged the Home Secretary's power to set minimum terms, Hindley and hundreds of others, whose tariffs had been increased by politicians, looked likely to be released. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [185] In 1999, his right wrist was broken in what he claimed was an "hour-long, unprovoked attack" by staff. I want nothing, my objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. On 21 October they found the "badly decomposed" body of Kilbride, which had to be identified by clothing. The important thing to keep in mind is that during this time, Hindley was entirely focused on her parole campaign. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. [246][247], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. 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. Once presented with some of the details that Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply. When I ran in I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. Hindley and her solicitor left Cookham Wood at 4:30am, flew to the moor by helicopter from an airfield near Maidstone, and then were driven, and walked, around the area until 3:00pm. The 17-year-old, who worked as machine operator at Trafford Park, was standing by the milk vending machine when he caught Bradys eye. 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When Smith got home he woke Maureen and told her what he had seen. [152], DCS Topping refused to allow Brady a second visit to the moor[151] before police called off their search on 24 August. [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. 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. A few months later the family moved to a new council house on an overspill estate at Pollok. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. [3] Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage. WebLesley-Anne Down was born on March 17, 1954 and raised in London, England. [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. [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. Scared stiff and determined to get out in one piece', Smith helped Brady clean up and carry Edwards body upstairs. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Police and helpers search Saddleworth Moor. [11], Within a year of moving to Manchester, Brady was caught with a sack full of lead seals he had stolen and was trying to smuggle out of the market. [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. Down made her feature On October 16 police found a body in peat bog, which was initially presumed to be John Kilbride's, but which the next day was identified as that of Lesley Ann Downey. Brady spent almost two decades in prison before being transferred to Ashworth Hospital, where he confessed to two other killings. [239] Shortly before her death at the age of 70, Sheila said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her". WebRM2HT361B Ann West, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, murder victim, killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, pictured 14th December 1965. He arrived home around 3:00a.m. and asked his wife to make a cup of tea, which he drank before vomiting and telling her what he had witnessed. By December 2, Brady had been charged with the murders of John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Then the screams carried on, one after another really loud. None of Maureen's relatives attended. Sheila Kilbride, mother of Brady and Hindley's second victim, 12-year-old John Kilbride, prays for her son on what would have been his 14th birthday on May 15, 1965. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. Myra Hindley (pictured here in 1980) died in 2002 at the age of 60 after serving life in prisons including Holloway and Durham, having made several unsuccessful appeals against her sentence and bids for parole. [71], Early in the evening of 16 June 1964, Hindley asked twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, who was on his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight,[72] for help in loading some boxes into her Mini Pick-up, after which she said she would drive him home. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. He called at the buffet bar for a drink, but it was closed. [44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her. 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]. [149], Over the next few months interest in the search waned, but Hindley's clue had focused efforts on a specific area. 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. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. [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. 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. She was voted Britain's most beautiful teenager at the age of 15. [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. [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]. [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. 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. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. A recording of the terrifying final moments of Ian Brady's victim Lesley Ann Downey as she pleaded for her life shocked the nation after it was played at his trial in 1966. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. Ian Brady: Put it in your mouth and youll be all right. For Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.[45]. jake@miresball.com Lesley Ann Downey: Ive got to go, because Im going out with my Mamma. When police returned to the living room they arrested Brady on suspicion of murder. [213][259] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. [264], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. 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. [221], On 25 November 2002, the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences. WebBrowse 91 lesley ann downey stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. Their children - John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Keith Bennett - died at the hands of Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. [191], According to Cowley, Brady regretted Hindley's imprisonment and the consequences of their actions, but not necessarily the crimes themselves. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. John's body was found a short distance away six days later. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. After work he instructed her to drive a borrowed van around while he followed on his motorcycle; when he spotted a likely victim he would flash his headlight. I have had enough. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. Born 1954 in Wandsworth, South West London, English actress, former model, and singer Lesley-Anne Down began acting and modelling, and in her teenaged years won several beauty pageants. 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. [35], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. The death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady, pictured here in 1966, and Hindley were on remand, so judge Justice Fenton Atkinson sentenced Brady 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 John Kilbride. [137], On 16 December 1986, Hindley made the first of two visits to assist the police search of the moor. The 17-year-old, who worked as machine operator at Trafford Park, was standing by the milk vending machine when he caught Bradys eye. Together, they went to a phone box and called the police. 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It was a pretext to lure out her brother-in-law David, then 17, whom Brady had been trying to groom as a partner-in-crime. [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". [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. 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. [28], In January 1961, the 18-year-old Hindley joined Millwards as a typist. [26] At 17, she became engaged after a short courtship, but called it off several months later after deciding the young man was immature and unable to provide her with the life she wanted. The death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady. Former policeman Norman Brennan, who represented Lesley Ann's Hindley later maintained that she went to fill a bath for Downey and found her dead when she returned; Brady claimed that Hindley killed Downey. She also paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity. 
Archive images document one of the darkest episodes in our region's history. They also contained photos, including those of Lesley Ann - and the recordings of her final moments. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. View gallery. 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. Ian Brady and his biological mother Maggie Stewart, Circa 1962. Call us toll free 0800 1800 900. [238] Downey's mother died in 1999 from cancer of the liver. Pauline Reade would not be found until 1987, the year Hindley and Brady, pictured here during a search of Saddleworth Moor in July of that year, finally admitted to murdering her and Keith Bennett. Ian Brady: Yes. In total the depraved couple murdered and raped five children and teenagers during a killing spree which lasted from July 1963 to October 1965. Ian Brady and his biological mother Maggie Stewart, Circa 1962. [233] After declining to prosecute the News of the World, Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones came under political pressure to impose new regulations on the press, but was reluctant to legislate on "chequebook journalism". The trip to the Lake District was the first of many outings. He complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated. Born 1954 in Wandsworth, South West London, English actress, former model, and singer Lesley-Anne Down began acting and modelling, and in her teenaged years won several beauty pageants. For warped killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley had the tune playing in the background of harrowing tape recordings of victim Lesley Ann Downey, 10, pleading for her life. His body remains undiscovered. 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. 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. On one of these occasions, she found an envelope belonging to Brady which she burned in an ashtray; she claimed she did not open it but believed it contained plans for bank robberies. The story tells a fictionalised account of the Leopold and Loeb case, two young men from well-to-do families who attempt to commit the perfect murder of a 12-year-old boy, and who escape the death penalty because of their age. By December 2, Brady had been charged with the murders of John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. I really thought he was going to kill me", Ashley Roberts stuns fans as she accidentally flashes in braless appearance for snap alongside Amanda Holden, The Pussycat Doll still shared the snap of herself alongside her Heart radio co-star - with a little edit. 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. jake@miresball.com [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. Reade 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. For warped killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley had the tune playing in the background of harrowing tape recordings of victim Lesley Ann Downey, 10, pleading for her life. [4] The identity of Brady's father has never been reliably ascertained, although his mother said he was a reporter working for a Glasgow newspaper who died three months before Brady was born. [35] Brady was taken to HM Prison Durham and Hindley was sent to HM Prison Holloway. [253], 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". [102] At the committal hearing on 6 December, Brady was charged with the murders of Evans, Kilbride, and Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Evans and Downey, as well as with harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had killed Kilbride. [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. Pauline, a schoolmate of Hindley's sister Maureen, was abducted after Hindley offered to give her a lift on Foxmer Street in Gorton. [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. Ann West, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, murder victim, killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, pictured 14th December 1965. [29] She soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record. Murders in and around Manchester, England, "The Moors Murderers" redirects here. [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. [163] It was stated 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. Ann Downey, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, pictured at a fairground on July 17, 1965, searching for clues to her daughter's disappearance. Brady and Hindley were jailed for life for the killings of John Kilbride, 12, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans, 17. Brady had a girlfriend, Evelyn Grant, but their relationship ended when he threatened her with a flick knife after she visited a dance with another boy. [83] Talbot explained that he was investigating "an act of violence involving guns" that was reported to have taken place the previous evening. [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 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. View gallery. [66], Once Reade was in the van, Hindley asked her to help in searching Saddleworth Moor for an expensive lost glove; Reade agreed and they drove there. [87], Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Hindley had been involved in the disappearances of other young people. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. [202][203], Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial. [220] Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered the GMP to find new charges against Hindley to prevent her release from prison. 9th May 1966. Their living situation deteriorated further when Hindley's sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946, and the following year five-year-old Myra was sent to live nearby with her grandmother. [217][218], When in 2002 another life sentence prisoner challenged the Home Secretary's power to set minimum terms, Hindley and hundreds of others, whose tariffs had been increased by politicians, looked likely to be released. Clitheroe, although puzzled by her interest, arranged for her to buy a .22 rifle from a gun merchant in Manchester. [185] In 1999, his right wrist was broken in what he claimed was an "hour-long, unprovoked attack" by staff. I want nothing, my objective is to die and release myself from this once and for all. On 21 October they found the "badly decomposed" body of Kilbride, which had to be identified by clothing. The important thing to keep in mind is that during this time, Hindley was entirely focused on her parole campaign. [204] She corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship. He rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines. [246][247], Reade's mother was admitted to Springfield Mental Hospital in Manchester. 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. Once presented with some of the details that Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply. When I ran in I just stood inside the living room and I saw a young lad. Hindley and her solicitor left Cookham Wood at 4:30am, flew to the moor by helicopter from an airfield near Maidstone, and then were driven, and walked, around the area until 3:00pm. The 17-year-old, who worked as machine operator at Trafford Park, was standing by the milk vending machine when he caught Bradys eye. 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When Smith got home he woke Maureen and told her what he had seen. [152], DCS Topping refused to allow Brady a second visit to the moor[151] before police called off their search on 24 August. [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. 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. A few months later the family moved to a new council house on an overspill estate at Pollok. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. [3] Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage. WebLesley-Anne Down was born on March 17, 1954 and raised in London, England. [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. [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. Scared stiff and determined to get out in one piece', Smith helped Brady clean up and carry Edwards body upstairs. Buy a Photo; How to Complain; who arrested Ian Brady, and, right, Brady and Hindley, and two of their victims, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Police and helpers search Saddleworth Moor. [11], Within a year of moving to Manchester, Brady was caught with a sack full of lead seals he had stolen and was trying to smuggle out of the market. [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. Down made her feature On October 16 police found a body in peat bog, which was initially presumed to be John Kilbride's, but which the next day was identified as that of Lesley Ann Downey. Brady spent almost two decades in prison before being transferred to Ashworth Hospital, where he confessed to two other killings. [239] Shortly before her death at the age of 70, Sheila said: "If she [Hindley] ever comes out of jail I'll kill her". WebRM2HT361B Ann West, mother of Lesley Ann Downey, murder victim, killed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, pictured 14th December 1965. He arrived home around 3:00a.m. and asked his wife to make a cup of tea, which he drank before vomiting and telling her what he had witnessed. By December 2, Brady had been charged with the murders of John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. Then the screams carried on, one after another really loud. None of Maureen's relatives attended. Sheila Kilbride, mother of Brady and Hindley's second victim, 12-year-old John Kilbride, prays for her son on what would have been his 14th birthday on May 15, 1965. It would never have been possible to carry out such a search in private. Myra Hindley (pictured here in 1980) died in 2002 at the age of 60 after serving life in prisons including Holloway and Durham, having made several unsuccessful appeals against her sentence and bids for parole. [71], Early in the evening of 16 June 1964, Hindley asked twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, who was on his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight,[72] for help in loading some boxes into her Mini Pick-up, after which she said she would drive him home. The family home was in poor condition and Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed. He called at the buffet bar for a drink, but it was closed. [44] Brady and Hindley's plans for robbery came to nothing, but they became interested in photography. Hindley was furious, and accused the police of murdering the dog one of the few occasions detectives witnessed any emotional response from her. 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]. [149], Over the next few months interest in the search waned, but Hindley's clue had focused efforts on a specific area. 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. He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. [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. 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. She was voted Britain's most beautiful teenager at the age of 15. [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. [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]. [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. 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. She claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police. A recording of the terrifying final moments of Ian Brady's victim Lesley Ann Downey as she pleaded for her life shocked the nation after it was played at his trial in 1966. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. Ian Brady: Put it in your mouth and youll be all right. For Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.[45]. jake@miresball.com Lesley Ann Downey: Ive got to go, because Im going out with my Mamma. When police returned to the living room they arrested Brady on suspicion of murder. [213][259] At the 1997 Sensation art exhibition, a reproduction composed of children's handprints caused controversy. [264], The book The Loathsome Couple by Edward Gorey (Mead, 1977) was inspired by the Moors murders. 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. [221], On 25 November 2002, the Law Lords agreed that judges, not politicians, should decide how long a criminal spends behind bars, and stripped the Home Secretary of the power to set minimum sentences. WebBrowse 91 lesley ann downey stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. Their children - John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey and Keith Bennett - died at the hands of Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. [191], According to Cowley, Brady regretted Hindley's imprisonment and the consequences of their actions, but not necessarily the crimes themselves. Her father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children. John's body was found a short distance away six days later. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. Ian was standing over him, facing him, with his legs on either side of the young lad's legs. [110] The Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones, led the prosecution, assisted by William Mars-Jones. After work he instructed her to drive a borrowed van around while he followed on his motorcycle; when he spotted a likely victim he would flash his headlight. I have had enough. Brady and Hindley became friendly with Patricia Hodges, an 11-year-old girl who lived at 12Wardle Brook Avenue. So you see my death strike is rational and pragmatic. Born 1954 in Wandsworth, South West London, English actress, former model, and singer Lesley-Anne Down began acting and modelling, and in her teenaged years won several beauty pageants. 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. [35], Since Brady and Hindley's arrests, newspapers had been keen to connect them to other missing children and teenagers from the area. The death penalty for murder had been abolished while Brady, pictured here in 1966, and Hindley were on remand, so judge Justice Fenton Atkinson sentenced Brady 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 John Kilbride. [137], On 16 December 1986, Hindley made the first of two visits to assist the police search of the moor. The 17-year-old, who worked as machine operator at Trafford Park, was standing by the milk vending machine when he caught Bradys eye. Together, they went to a phone box and called the police. 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