Remembering Moors Murderer Ian Brady’s five victims who he killed and dumped with Myra Hindley during campaign of horror

MOORS murderer Ian Brady has died at the age of 79, just hours after he was urged to “do the right thing” and reveal where the last of his child victims is buried.

The sick killer refused to do so however.

A Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said: “We can confirm a 79-year-old patient in long term care at Ashworth High Secure Hospital has died after becoming physically unwell.”

The serial killer, who used the name Ian Stewart-Brady before his death, was a patient at Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside where he was reportedly receiving palliative care.

Twisted Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s.

Here, we remember their tragic victims.

Pauline Reade

On July 12, 1963, Brady told Hindley he wanted to “commit his perfect murder”.

He told her to drive a van around the local area while he followed on his motorbike.

After spotting Pauline Reade, 16, the couple stopped and Hindley asked her if she would help her locate an expensive glove she had lost on the Moor.

Hindley claimed Brady then took Pauline on to the Moor, where he slashed her throat twice and sexually assaulted her.

Brady claims that Hindley helped.

John Kilbride

On November 23, 1963, Hindley approached John Kilbride in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs, and offered him a lift home.

Brady told the 12-year-old he would give him some sherry, but they would have to make a detour on the Moor first.

He sexually assaulted the youngster and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade before fatally strangling him with a piece of string.

Keith Bennett

Keith Bennett, 12, was on his way to his grandmother’s house on June 16, 1964, when Hindley lured him into her van.

She drove to a lay-by on the Moor and Brady took the boy while Hindley kept watch.

Brady reappeared 30 minutes later having sexually assaulted and strangled Keith.

His body was never found.

Lesley Ann Downey

In search of another victim, the couple visited a fairground on Boxing Day, 1964, and came across Lesley Ann Downey.

They approached the 10-year-old and lured her back to their house, where she was undressed, gagged and forced to pose for photographs before being raped and killed.

The following morning Brady and Hindley drove with Downey’s body to Saddleworth Moor, where she was buried, naked with her clothes at her feet, in a shallow grave.

Edward Evans

On 6 October 1965 Brady met 17-year-old apprentice engineer Edward Evans at Manchester Central railway station.

He invited him to his home where Brady beat him to death with an axe.