One of Your Own (69 page)

68.
   Anon.,
The Gorton & Openshaw Reporter
(13 May 1966).

69.
   Hansford Johnson,
On Iniquity
, p. 89.

70.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 107.

71.
   Francis Wyndham,
The Sunday Times
(8 May 1966).

72.
   David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

1.
     Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 131.

2.
     Ibid., p. 132.

3.
     Marshall Palmer, report, 21 September 1966. National Archive, Myra Hindley, J82/669.

4.
     Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 134.

5.
     Ibid., p. 133.

6.
     Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

7.
     David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

8.
     Ann West,
For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim’s Mother
(London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1989), p. 115.

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

10.
   Lady Tree is the founder of Fine Cell Work, a charity that employs prisoners to make skilled needlework and tapestry, which is sold through ‘premium’ outlets such as the shop at Highgrove or via commissions. There are currently 350 prisoners involved in the scheme.

11.
   Lady Anne Tree, Peter Stanford interview for the
Independent on Sunday Review
.

12.
   Ibid.

13.
   Ibid.

14.
   Ibid.

15.
   Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

16.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1967. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

17.
   Nellie had been using the name Hettie Moulton for some time, but to avoid confusion she is referred to throughout this book as Nellie.

18.
   The 1968 Theatres Act abolished censorship.

19.
   Ann West was left cold by Williams’ method of interviewing, as was Danny Kilbride, who refused to allow his name to be included in the book. Williams wanted to include two chapters about Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade but was dissuaded by his publisher’s lawyers.

20.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 15 June 1968. Hull University; Brynmore Library.

21.
   Ibid. On 24 June 1967, Benfield wrote to Emlyn Williams, heading his letter ‘Extremely Confidential’, to ask him about his sources. His main concerns were the pornographic photos of Brady and Hindley, and her diary. Williams replied that Maureen had given him a copy of the diary, but on his own typewritten copy of the diary he’d scribbled, ‘Found in wardrobe, 16.’ He claimed to have been given the pornographic photos by ‘Bill’, whose real name he’d forgotten and whose address he’d lost. However, in a very jolly letter written to Williams’ wife in 1969, William Mars-Jones’s wife stated that her husband and Emlyn were great pals and the four of them should have lunch. She signed her letter, ‘Yours sincerely, Sheila Mars-Jones (“Mrs Bill”)’. (Emlyn Williams Collection, Preliminary Notes, Ref: L3/4, National Library of Wales.)

22.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 15 June 1968. Hull University; Brynmore Library.

23.
   Lady Anne Tree, Peter Stanford interview for the
Independent on Sunday Review
.

24.
   Tania Branigan, ‘High Profile Allies Led Call for Release’,
The Guardian
(16 November 2002).

25.
   Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 161.

26.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1967. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

27.
   
Myra Hindley: The Prison Years
, documentary (Granada Anglia, 2006).

28.
   Internal memo, 13 January 1969. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/86.

29.
   Internal memo, 14 January 1969. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/86.

30.
   Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 156.

31.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 233.

32.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1966. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

33.
   Harrison,
Brady and Hindley
, p. 156.

34.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 161.

35.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 168.

36.
   Ibid., p. 155.

37.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1969. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

1.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 1970. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

2.
     Robert Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples: Moors Murders
(Dorset: Javelin Books, 1986), p. 162.

3.
     Fred Harrison,
Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders
(London: Grafton Books, 1987), p. 154.

4.
     Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 163.

5.
     Jean Ritchie,
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess
(London: Grafton Books, 1988), p. 152.

6.
     Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 163. Note: Ritchie has Myra writing this after an outing to Hampstead Heath with Dorothy Wing.

7.
     Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 158.

8.
     Ibid., p. 234.

9.
     According to Robert Wilson’s book
Devil’s Disciples
, Tricia exchanged letters with Myra at Nellie’s address using the name Glynis Moors.

10.
   Ian’s foster mother died of heart failure in 1970, and his foster brother, Robert Sloan, died from the same complaint in middle age. His foster sister, May, contracted tuberculosis and her sister, Jean, took an overdose in 1988. Journalists tracked down his foster brother, John, in 2005, but he refused to speak to them.

11.
   Peter Topping,
Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murders Case
(London: Angus and Robertson, 1989), p. 131.

12.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 164.

13.
   Ibid.

14.
   Duncan Staff, ‘Dangerous Liaison’,
The Guardian
(14 October 2006).

15.
   Ann West,
For the Love of Lesley: Moors Murders Remembered by a Victim’s Mother
(London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1989), p. 104.

16.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 165.

17.
   It was usual, but not regulatory, for the governor to obtain Home Office permission first.

18.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1972. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

19.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 166. A life sentence was then reckoned as twenty-one years, with any long-term prisoner entitled to apply for parole after serving a third of their sentence; that left Myra within six months of being legally eligible to apply.

20.
   Ibid., pp.166–7.

21.
   Norman Luck, ‘Hearts and Flowers’ (22 February 2008). Gentlemen Ranters website:
www.gentlemenranters.com
.

22.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 175.

23.
   Following the trial, the Home Office reviewed the information given by Pat Ali and awarded her £1,500 as compensation for her lost remission.

24.
   Danny Kilbride, author interview, Manchester, 21 August 2009.

25.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 168.

26.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 1974. Reproduced with the kind permission of Andrew McCooey.

27.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 187.

28.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 168.

29.
   Janie Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones: The Twisted Mind of Myra Hindley
(London: Smith Gryphon, 1988), pp. 158–9.

30.
   Wilson,
Devil’s Disciples
, p. 169.

31.
   Internal memos, November 1975. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, NA, 336/26.

32.
   Sara Trevelyan, author interview, Edinburgh, 24 June 2009.

33.
   On 8 November 1972,
The Times
reported David Smith’s acquittal at Manchester Crown Court for the murder of his father, who was in the last stages of cancer when Dave gave him a drink mixed with 20 sodium amytal tablets. He received a nominal two-day sentence.

34.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 235.

35.
   Ibid., p. 238.

36.
   Ibid.

37.
   Ibid., p. 243.

38.
   Internal memo, 26 March 1976. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141.

39.
   Jones,
The Devil and Miss Jones
, p. 164.

40.
   Ibid., pp. 114–5.

41.
   Internal memo, 26 September 1976. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141.

42.
   Pat Carlen,
Criminal Women
(Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985), pp. 157–8.

43.
   Internal memo, 28 September 1976. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141.

44.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 190.

45.
   Carlen,
Criminal Women
, pp. 157–8.

46.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 6 October 1976. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141.

47.
   ‘Find that . . .’ Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 191; ‘both laughed . . .’ internal memo, 28 February 1977. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141. After her release from jail, Josie worked for the charity Women in Prison, but ended up inside again. She died in Bulwood prison in October 1997, found slumped in a pool of blood in the prison’s healthcare unit. She had a severed artery in her wrist and a lethal level of sedatives in her blood. Two inquests failed to reach a conclusive verdict about her death.

48.
   Peter Stanford,
The Outcasts’ Outcast: A Biography of Lord Longford
(Gloucester: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006), p. 348.

49.
   Ibid., pp. 348–9.

50.
   Anne Maguire, author interview, London, 29 July 2009.

51.
   Ibid.

52.
   Internal memo, 28 February 1977. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/141.