One of Your Own (63 page)

28.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

29.
   Birch,
Moving Targets
, p. 42.

30.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

31.
   Ibid.

32.
   David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

33.
   Ibid.

34.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

35.
   Ibid.

36.
   Ibid.

37.
   Ibid.

38.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 23.

39.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

40.
   Christine Hart,
The Devil’s Daughter
(Essex: New Author Publications, 1993), p. 245.

41.
   Gil Deares was later the subject of a police investigation, when Brady claimed to have murdered him and Hindley was said to have told a fellow prisoner that she suspected Brady of his murder. In July 1962, Deares apparently drove to Manchester in a Jaguar coupe, which he passed on to another man for use as a getaway car, and visited Brady at the same time. In November, Deares left from home, telling his family he was going to meet a friend, and called on Brady, confiding that he was on the run: the man to whom he had passed on the Jaguar was arrested after failing to get rid of the vehicle and had given Deares’s name to the police. He then disappeared. One Saturday Brady insisted on driving to Deares’s home, telling Hindley to knock on the door and pretend to be an ex-girlfriend keen to be in touch again; the family knew Brady and disapproved of his friendship with Gil. Hindley left them her name and address, and two weeks later received a letter from the Deares explaining that they still hadn’t heard anything. Hindley steamed the letter open, despite knowing that Brady wanted to read it first. She handed it to him while they were out at a cinema in Oldham. When Brady realised she’d already opened it, he refused to speak to her for an entire week. As was their custom, he ended the silence between them with a gift as an apology. Hindley later claimed to a journalist that Brady and Deares had attempted a robbery, armed with knives, and that they fled the scene when the police arrived. Whatever the truth of that, Brady didn’t murder Gil Deares, who drowned in a Sheffield reservoir in 1977.

42.
   National Archive, Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers, ASSI 84/427.

43.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 38.

44.
   Loeb was murdered in prison by a fellow inmate. Leopold was released after serving 33 years. He found employment in a hospital and married a widowed florist; he died of a diabetes-related heart attack in 1971, after unsuccessfully trying to block the film version of
Compulsion
.

45.
   Brian Masters,
On Murder
(London: Coronet, 1994), p. 164.

46.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

47.
   Ibid.

48.
   Ibid.

49.
   Steve Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would be in a Grave’,
The Independent
(15 August 1998).

50.
   Hart,
The Devil’s Daughter
, p. 244.

51.
   Ibid.

52.
   Duncan Staff,
The Lost Boy: The Definitive Story of the Moors Murders and the Search for the Final Victim
(London: Bantam Books, 2008), p. 379.

53.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 102.

54.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

55.
   W.H. Auden,
Collected Poems
(London: Faber and Faber, 2004).

1.
     Anon., ‘Keep Hindley in Jail, Says Ex-Lover Brady’, BBC News online (27 August 1998).

2.
     Steve Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would be in a Grave’,
The Independent
(15 August 1998).

3.
     Steve Boggan, ‘Brady’s Myra Time Bomb’,
London Evening Standard
(7 November 2002).

4.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

5.
     Ibid.

6.
     Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would be in a Grave’.

7.
     Ibid.

8.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

9.
     William Mars-Jones QC, ‘The Moors Murders’ address given to the Medico-Legal Society, 9 November 1967.

10.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

11.
   Ibid.

12.
   Boggan, ‘Brady Told Me that I Would be in a Grave’.

13.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

14.
   Steve Boggan, ‘Revealed: New Evidence that Might Free Myra Hindley’,
The Independent
(15 August 1998).

15.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 3 June 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

16.
   Ian Brady,
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis
(Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), pp. 21–2.

17.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 60.

18.
   Duncan Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in Her Own Words’,
The Guardian
(29 February 2000).

19.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 135.

20.
   Janie Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), pp. 122–3.

21.
   Anon., ‘Special Report – Myra Hindley: The Brady Letter’, BBC News online (8 December 1997).

22.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 153.

23.
   Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

24.
   Dominic Sandbrook,
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
(London: Abacus, 2006), p. 504.

25.
   Maureen Hindley, witness statement. The following (open) documents at the National Archives in Kew deal with Brady and Hindley’s arrest, witness statements and trial transcripts: National Archive, Assizes: Wales and Chester Circuit: Criminal Depositions and Case Papers, ASSI ASSI 84/425 / ASSI 84/426 / ASSI 84/427 / ASSI 84/428 / ASSI 84/429 / ASSI 84/430 and also National Archive, Court of Criminal Appeal and Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: Case papers J82/668 and J82/669. Jonathan Goodman’s
The Moors Murders: The Trial of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
is a comprehensive account of the trial generally.

26.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 45.

27.
   In his autobiography, Peter Topping states that Brady gave Hindley a copy of a record to commemorate Pauline’s killing and that this was the theme music from a Sidney Lumet film,
The Hill
, starring Sean Connery as a soldier forced to participate in a brutal army exercise in the Libyan desert. Hindley told Topping that she and Brady had seen the film as part of a double bill with
The Day of the Triffids
in Oldham, but
The Hill
wasn’t released until 1965; the film Hindley and Brady saw in Oldham two days after Pauline’s murder was
The Legion’s Last Patrol
, which was part of a nationwide double-bill release with
The Day of the Triffids
. See chapter 9 for further details.

28.
   Brady told Topping a different version of events. He said that the idea of flashing his lights was nonsense because there was no need to do so and it wasn’t dark when they set off. The ‘lost glove’ theory is another peculiarity: although they claimed to have used the ploy effectively on other occasions, the fact remains that the only person who lost a glove that night was Pauline – before she was taken to the moor.

29.
   Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in her own Words’.

30.
   Hindley’s acquaintance Allan Grafton, who still lives in Gorton near Marie – now a married woman with children of her own – affirms: ‘Marie was the one who got away. They would have got her if she hadn’t lived so close to Myra’s mother. It happened a few streets from here. Whenever I see Marie, she always says to me, “I was the lucky one – I went home to my family that night.”’

31.
   Duncan Staff, ‘A Journey into Darkness’,
The Guardian
(29 February 2000).

32.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

33.
   Ibid.

34.
   Staff, ‘Myra Hindley in her own Words’.

35.
   Brady told Topping that Hindley’s version of events was all wrong; he claimed she parked in Cornwall Street and asked Pauline to help her carry some records to the van, but since he also asserts that it was more than an hour before he met them on the moor – a delay which Hindley would have found very difficult to explain to Pauline – Hindley’s account seems the more likely.

36.
   Joan Reade forgot to mention the glove to the police in her agony over Pauline. She did look for the other glove eventually but never found it and only told the story to Fred Harrison in the mid 1980s. He explained in his book
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
that the glove was lying about nine feet from the Reades’ front door and to the left of the door – in the opposite direction of Pauline’s walk away from the house. Harrison presents a reasonable theory that Pauline may have doubled back on her journey to the dance, visiting Maureen at her boyfriend Dave Smith’s home in Wiles Street to see if she could persuade her to go with her to the club, but the theory falls apart in the light of Hindley’s confession, which Brady largely echoes, and so the mystery of Pauline’s glove remains.

37.
   Colin Wilson, Introduction in Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 13.

38.
   Ian Brady, letter, 16 January 1990. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

39.
   Topping,
Topping
, p. 218. When Pauline’s body was discovered 24 years later, the locket was missing. Hindley denied seeing the locket or having it in her possession, while Brady claims to have buried it the following day on a country road near Oldham.

40.
   Brady,
The Gates of Janus
, p. 254.

41.
   Hindley recalled moonlight when Brady led her onto the moor to look at Pauline’s body, but the abduction occurred around eight o’clock and it would have been light for at least a couple of hours after that.

42.
   Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

43.
   Staff, ‘A Journey into Darkness’.

44.
   Apart from the issue of whether it was light or dark during Pauline’s murder, there are other inconsistencies: Hindley and Brady’s accounts differ, Pauline’s lost glove remains a mystery and there are further discrepancies with the timescale. According to Fred Harrison’s interviews with Joan and Paul Reade (both now deceased), when Paul arrived home from the cinema he turned off Taylor Street into Benster Street, where he saw Maureen Hindley having a row with her boyfriend Dave Smith. The two were standing in Charmers Street, at the top end of the entry behind Wiles Street. It was 9.30 p.m., yet Paul clearly recalled seeing Myra Hindley standing on the opposite corner, and as he turned into Wiles Street he glanced back to see Maureen crying and her sister walking over to break up the argument. Joan Reade also told Emlyn Williams, author of
Beyond Belief
, that she had seen Maureen Hindley in Wiles Street that night and that the girl was wearing a plaster cast after breaking her leg. Traumatic events can have a concertina effect on time, but the inconsistencies are perplexing.