51 Facts About Moors murders

The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965.

Moors murders died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison.

Moors murders made it clear that he wished to never be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die.

Moors murders died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79, having served 51 years.

The Moors murders were the result of what Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, described as a "concatenation of circumstances".

Moors murders's mother continued to visit him throughout his childhood.

Moors murders again appeared before the court, this time with nine charges against him, and shortly before his 17th birthday he was placed on probation on condition that he live with his mother.

Moors murders was sent to Strangeways Prison for three months.

Moors murders was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man.

Moors murders was partly inspired by the life and works of French author Marquis de Sade, whose name was the etymological inspiration for the term "sadism".

Moors murders rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines.

Moors murders's father was an alcoholic who was frequently violent towards his wife and children.

Moors murders had been known as a hard man while in the army and he expected his daughter to be equally tough; he taught her to fight and insisted that she stick up for herself.

Moors murders was not only used to violence in the home but rewarded for it outside.

Moors murders took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane.

Moors murders took the confirmation name of Veronica and received her First Communion in November 1958.

Moors murders ran errands, typed, made tea and was well liked enough that when she lost her first week's wage packet, the other women took up a collection to replace it.

Moors murders took weekly judo lessons at a local school but found partners reluctant to train with her as she was often slow to release her grip.

Moors murders began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick.

Moors murders asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable.

Moors murders then buried his body in a shallow grave and, at some point afterwards, photographed Hindley and her pet dog standing atop the recently-disturbed ground.

Moors murders was lying with his head and shoulders on the couch and his legs were on the floor.

Moors murders arrived home around 3:00 am and asked his wife to make a cup of tea, which he drank before vomiting and telling her what he had witnessed.

Moors murders was picked up by a police car from the phone box and taken to Hyde police station, where he told officers what he had witnessed the previous night.

Moors murders refused to make any statement about Evans' death beyond claiming it had been an accident, and was allowed to go home on the condition that she return the next day.

Moors murders was charged as an accessory to the murder of Evans and remanded at Risley Prison.

Moors murders described Brady as "wicked beyond belief" and said he saw no reasonable possibility of reform and suitability for parole for him, though he did not think the same necessarily true of Hindley once "removed from [Brady's] influence".

Moors murders showed particular interest in photos of the area around Hollin Brown Knoll and Shiny Brook, but said that it was impossible to be sure of the locations without visiting the moor.

Moors murders claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police.

Moors murders paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity.

Moors murders stayed overnight in Manchester, at the flat of the police chief in charge of GMP training at Sedgley Park, Prestwich, and visited the moor twice.

Moors murders 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.

Moors murders said that she saw no possibility of release, and exonerated Smith from any part in the murders other than that of Evans.

Moors murders spent nineteen years in mainstream prisons before being diagnosed as a psychopath in November 1985 and sent to the high-security Park Lane Hospital, now Ashworth Hospital, in Maghull, Merseyside; he made it clear that he never wanted to be released.

In one letter, written in 2005, Brady claimed that the Moors murders were "merely an existential exercise of just over a year, which was concluded in December 1964".

Moors murders complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated.

Moors murders was therefore force-fed and transferred to another hospital for tests after he fell ill.

Moors murders saw no point in making any kind of public apology; instead, he "expresse[d] remorse through actions".

Moors murders once offered to donate one of his kidneys to "someone, anyone who needed one", but was blocked from doing so.

Moors murders did not refer directly to Bennett by name and did not claim he could take investigators directly to the grave, but spoke of the "clarity" of his recollections.

Moors murders was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night.

Moors murders corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship.

Moors murders rejected the idea and in early 1998 was moved to the medium-security HM Prison Highpoint; the House of Lords ruling left open the possibility of later freedom.

Moors murders had been diagnosed with angina in 1999 and hospitalised after suffering a brain aneurysm.

Moors murders divorced Smith in 1973, and married a lorry driver, Bill Scott, with whom she had a daughter.

Moors murders pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention.

Moors murders remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons, and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in 1987.

Moors murders was present, under heavy sedation, at the funeral of her daughter on 7 August 1987.

Moors murders's often reprinted photograph, taken shortly after she was arrested, is described by some commentators as similar to the mythical Medusa and, according to author Helen Birch, has become "synonymous with the idea of feminine evil".

Moors murders described Hindley as a "delightful" person and said "you could loathe what people did but should not loathe what they were because human personality was sacred even though human behaviour was very often appalling".

Moors murders 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.