Topping: The Autobiography of the Police Chief in the Moors Murder Case

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A further challenge he said, is the additional complexity for the public to understand how local government works in the area. I have attended conferences since 1973. I have also organised many conferences and symposia. These include: Characterised by the press as "the most evil woman in Britain", [1] Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released. She died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison.

a b c d e f g Davenport-Hines, Richard, "Hindley, Myra (1942–2002)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.), Oxford University Press , retrieved 5 July 2009 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The Smith and Wesson pistol Brady claimed to have used to shoot the hitchhiker in Arrochar was bought by Hindley in July 1964.

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Ian Brady's ashes "not to be scattered at Saddleworth Moor" ", BBC News, 16 May 2017 , retrieved 16 May 2017 The pair were charged only for the murders of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences under a whole life tariff. The investigation was reopened in 1985 after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett. In 1987 Hindley had stopped claiming her innocence and confessed to all of the murders. After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett, [129] something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reopened the investigation, now to be headed by Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, head of GMP's Criminal Investigation Department (CID). [130]The Manchester police officer who hunted Moors Murders Ian Brady and Myra Hindley has died, aged 80. There is a sense of rage towards Hindley, and particularly her, because a lot of people felt Brady needed treatment. Myra Hindley Loses Murder Appeal", The Times, no.56765, Times Digital Archive, 18 October 1966, p.1 , retrieved 25 September 2009

In 1972, Smith was acquitted of the murder of his father, who had been suffering from terminal cancer. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention. [243] He remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons, [231] [244] and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in 1987. In 2011, he co-authored the book Witness with biographer Carol Ann Lee. [245] Smith died from cancer in Ireland in 2012. [246] [247] The murders were the result of what Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, described as a "concatenation of circumstances". [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". [3] Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage. Cornwell, Naomi (28 June 2011), "Book by Moors Murder witness David Smith recalls horror", bbc.co.uk , retrieved 6 June 2018Lewis, James (9 December 1987), "Ian Brady resumes search for boy's grave", The Guardian, p.3 , retrieved 1 September 2019 He said: “She was trying to portray a picture of compliance and co-operation, that she was sorry for her crimes. But if she was truly sorry she would have told where the bodies are. She was a serial killer, evil, dishonest, saying anything to get parole.”