When the newspapers printed details of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's unspeakable cruelty disbelieving readers are said to have wept.
And to this day the crimes the evil pair committed still haunt Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965 Brady and Hindley tortured and murdered five children - Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Keith Bennett, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17 - before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor.
During their trial at Chester Assizes in the spring of 1966, a harrowing 16 minute tape was played to the jury in which Lesley Ann, could be heard pleading for her life. Read more: Skull found as police dig for Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett - latest updates She could be heard whimpering 'let me go' and 'don’t undress me will you?'.
Hindley could be heard telling the girl to 'shut up' while Brady appeared to taking pictures. "Please God help me, ah, please, oh," the girl is heard to say before screaming.
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