Moors Murder Cases Continue

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30937, 18 December 1965, Page 15

Moors Murder Cases Continue

I.V.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

HYDE (Cheshire), Dec. 17. The story of the death of 12-year-old John Kilbride will open in Hyde Magistrate’s Court today.

lan Brady has been charged with his murder and Brady’s blonde girl-friend, Esther Myra Hindley, has been charged with harbouring Brady knowing that he had murdered the boy. Brady, a 27-year-old clerk, and Hindley have also been charged with the murder of Edward Evans, a 17-year-old Manchester apprentice, and 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey. Downey's almost naked body was found ’ dried in the peaty earth of Saddleworth, high above the market town of H? de, police witnesses told the Magistrates yesterday. Kilbride's body was later found buried nearby. The schoolboy was last seen by his friends standing in the market place at Ashton-under-Lyne, about four miles from Hyde. This was the market which Maureen Smith last week told ihe Magistrates her sister. Mvra Hindley. used to visit regularly to buy stockings and (other soods Pictures of Moor I Pictures of the moor, fcvhere the children's bodies ■*ere found, were produced in Eourt yesterday by police witwho also produced Books on torture and perver-

sion, coshes, a photographic album and other items which they said were found along with tape recordings in suitcases in a railway left baggage office. The hearing in the case of Lesley Ann Downey ended yesterday. The Court is sitting late each night in an effort to end the committal hearings before Christmas.