Brady raped & drugged me... Shameless Hindley’s deathbed letters

Killer’s bid to play victim

Moors murderer Myra Hindley tried to win her freedom by claiming she was drugged, beaten and repeatedly raped by partner-in-crime Ian Brady.

And in a brazen bid for sympathy, evil Hindley said her former lover would have murdered her if she had not agreed to join his killing spree.

Her claims were set out in a series of letters and notes believed to have been handed to a member of staff at HMP Highpoint on the day she died in 2002, which have come to light 16 years later.

But her sob story was last night dismissed by the brother of one of the five children killed by the twisted pair.

Terry West, whose sister Lesley Ann Downey was tortured and murdered by the couple when she was just 10, called Hindley a liar for trying to shift the blame solely on to Brady.

He said: “What she is saying is a load of tripe. If she’d wanted to get out of it, she would have done.”

The late Winnie Johnson, mother of victim Keith Bennett, believed Hindley was fully responsible and lured the children into Brady’s clutches. Mrs John- son’s solicitor John Ainley said: “Winnie never accepted she was not culpable for all the deaths. She rejected Hindley’s assertion that in some way she was completely under his control.

“Winnie always thought she was the bait that attracted young children. They would not have been tempted to go in a vehicle or move away with a man but a female they were far more vulnerable to.”

Some of the papers detail Hindley’s efforts to win an early release from her life sentence. In them she painted herself as a “victim” of sexual deviant Brady.

Sick Hindley said that once she was indoctrinated, he said they could commit the perfect murder. She wrote: