MURDER HEARING
Crown Case Outlined <N Z Press Assn —Copyright) CHESTER, April 20. Britain's AttorneyGeneral (Sir Elwyn Jones) has completed an eight-hour outline of evidence against Myra Hindley and lan Brady, accused of Britain’s ‘moors murders.’
He outlined the methods used on the three victims. Edward Evans, a 17-year old clerk, was hit 14 times with an axe and then strang led; Lesley Downey, a 10-vear-old schoolgirl, and John Kilbride, aged 12, probably were suffocated. The Attorney-General produced for the all-male jury copies of 12 nude photographs of the murdered schoolgirl and said he would later play to them a tape-recording of her “screams and protests” before she was gagged with a scarf and killed. Meanwhile, detectives are searching for the killer of Mrs Rachael Heilpern. aged 53, the sister-in-law of Mr Godfrey Heilpern, Q.C., who is defending Hindley. Mrs Heilpern was stabbed four times, once in the heart.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31041, 22 April 1966, Page 11
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