Myra Hindley Quotes

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

Without news to feed it, the biggest story starves.

I can only describe my reaction to him as an immediate and fatal attraction, although I had no inkling then of just how fatal it would turn out to be.’1

Ian Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart on 2 January 1938 in Glasgow, Scotland, he’s responsible for a series of murders that took place from 1962 until 1965 in Greater Manchester. Brady and Myra Hindley met in 1961, she was a 19-year-old typist, he was a 23-year-old stock clerk. By 1966, both were tried at Chester Assizes for multiple murder. The trial lasted 15 days; Brady and Hindley were convicted on 6 May 1966, sentenced to life imprisonment.

Only once did Myra’s impassive public facade drop: when she stuck her tongue out at reporters as she left court.

Like all children of that era, they had been diligently warned about strange men, but it never crossed their young minds to fear a woman.

One of the few journalists to whom she spoke relatively unguardedly recalls: ‘The one phrase that really sticks in my mind is that she referred to Manchester as “Victim Country”.

John Kay of The Sun said to me, “Anything you can give us about Myra, I will guarantee you a front-page spread.” She was as lucrative to them as Princess Diana.