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35. Myra Hindley, letter, 6 December 1999. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
36. Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.
37. Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.
38. Andrew McCooey, telephone interview, 11 August 2009.
39. Anon., ‘Hindley’s Ashes to Be “Thrown Away”’, The Mail on Sunday (17 November 2002).
40. Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.
41. Ibid.
42. Sue Doolan, letter, 20 December 2002. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/114.
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1. Stuart Millar, Sarah Hall and Jamie Wilson, ‘Death of Moors Murderer Lets Blunkett off the Hook’, The Guardian (16 November 2002).
2. Tania Branigan, ‘High Profile Allies Led Call for Release’, The Guardian (16 November 2002).
3. Peter Stanford, ‘Myra Hindley, Notorious Child Murderer Whose Protestations of Repentance Failed to Assuage Public Revulsion’, The Guardian (16 November 2002).
4. Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.
5. David Sapsted, ‘Authorities Rush to Get Rid of Hindley’s Remains’, The Telegraph (18 November 2002).
6. The Moors Murders, documentary (Chameleon TV, 1999). Pauline Reade’s brother, Paul, died of a brain tumour in 2004.
7. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
8. Ian Herbert, ‘Memories Cut through the Murderous Mists of Saddleworth’, The Independent on Sunday (17 November 2002).
9. Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.
10. In October 2002, Brady was taken under guard to Manchester Royal Infirmary to visit his dying mother. The Home Office issued a statement: ‘Leave was agreed for completely compassionate reasons in accordance with the wishes of Mrs Brady. Ian Brady’s mother is dying and a last meeting was at her request. She is not a criminal and does have human rights, which is why the Home Secretary agreed. It’s a one-off deathbed wish and it’s difficult, but we should not deny the innocent mother’s dying wish.’ Brady spent an hour with his mother before she died.
11. Duncan Staff, author interview, Bristol, 18 June 2009.
12. Helena Kennedy, Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice, (London: Vintage, 2005), p. 257.
13. Myra Hindley, letter, 4 February 1987. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.
14. Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.
15. Diana Athill, Stet: An Editor’s Life (London: Grove Press, 2002), p. 97.
16. Yvonne Roberts, author interview, London, 27 July 2009.
17. Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.
18. Anon., ‘Myra Hindley’s Portrait Plea’, The Guardian, letters page (31 July 1997).
19. Marina Warner, ‘Peroxide Mug Shot’, London Review of Books (1 January 1998). A portrait of Myra Hindley created by artist Gary Cartwright using bloodstained carpet and ropes hangs in the Greater Manchester Police Museum.
20. Rachel Bletchley, ‘Myra Hindley’s Twelve Faces of Evil’, The People (15 September 2002).
21. Kennedy, Eve Was Framed, p. 18.
22. Kay Carmichael, Sin and Forgiveness: New Choices in a Changing World (Farnham: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 9–10.
23. Andrew McCooey, telephone interview, 11 August 2009.
24. Kennedy, Eve Was Framed, p. 254.
25. Joe Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan (London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
26. Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
27. Michael Fisher, letter, 28 July 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
28. Janie Jones, The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley (London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), p. 141.
29. Unsigned report on the Hindley manuscript. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
30. David Astor, letter, 27 January 1999. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
31. Revd Peter Timms, letter, 1 November 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
32. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
33. Christine Joanna Hart, Searching for Daddy (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008), p. 257.
34. Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001), p. 151.
35. Myra Hindley, 21 January 1997. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
36. David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’, The Guardian (18 December 1995).
37. Jean Ritchie, Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess (London: Grafton Books, 1988), pp. 201–2.
38. Helen Birch, Moving Targets: Women, Murder and Representation (London: Virago, 1993), p. 41.
39. Robert Wilson, Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders (Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 184.
40. Birch, Moving Targets, p. 60.
41. Jonathan Goodman, The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady (London: Magpie Books, 1994), pp. 20–4.
42. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
43. Nicci Gerrard, ‘The Face of Human Evil’, The Observer (17 November 2002).
44. Myra Hindley, letter, 1985. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
45. Carmichael, Sin and Forgiveness, p. 129.
46. Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.
47. Lady Anne Tree, Peter Stanford interview for the Independent on Sunday Review.
48. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
49. Brian Masters, ‘The Other Side of Evil’, The Independent (17 November 2002).
Appendix: He Kept Them Close
1. Anon., ‘Moors Murder Victim Keith Bennett Search Ended by Police’, Daily Telegraph (1 July 2009).
2. Carol Midgley, ‘A Letter from Hell’, The Times (26 April 2006).
3. Anon., ‘Moors Murder Victim . . .’.
4. Mike McCarthy, ‘Moors Murderer Brady: No More Help from Me’, Sky News online (10 July 2009).
5. ‘Brady holds . . .’ Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009; ‘His attention . . .’ Joe Chapman, Out of the Frying Pan (London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).
6. Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
7. Myra Hindley, autobiography. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.
8. More recently, detectives asked for a warrant to search Brady’s cell in order to examine the photographs, but, because he has never been charged with Keith’s murder, their request was refused.
9. Ann West, For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim’s Mother (London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1989), p. 176.
10. Russell Jenkins, ‘Desolate Moors Confounded Experts’ Search for Body of Keith Bennett’, The Times (2 July 2009).
11. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
12. Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.
13. Yvonne Roberts, author interview, London, 27 July 2009.
14. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
15. West, For the Love of Lesley, p. 175.
16. Myra Hindley, letter, 5 February 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection.
17. Peter Topping, Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case (London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 230.
18. Ibid., p. 215.
19. Ibid., p. 229.
20. Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.
21. Ian Fairley, author interview, Norfolk, 20 July 2009.
22. Winnie Johnson, author interview, Manchester, 7 September 2009.
23. Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.
24. Chris Crowther, author interview, S
addleworth, 7 September 2009.
25. West, For the Love of Lesley, p. 162.
26. Mike Massheder, author interview, Preston, 1 July 2009.
27. Brady was a keen cinemagoer; in April 1960, Hell Is a City premiered at the Apollo in Ardwick Green. The film, starring Stanley Baker as a detective on the trail of a gang of Manchester thieves, features the dumping of a girl’s body on the moors and was shot on location at Wessenden Head – two years before Brady and Hindley began visiting the area.
28. Fred Harrison, Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders (London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 153.
29. Charlotte Mew, ‘Moorland Night’, in Charlotte Mew: Collected Poems and Prose (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2003).
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