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ÇI jumped out window to escape evil killer Myra

TOM CAUGHT IN TRAP

- By JERRY LAWTON Chief Crime Correspond­ent jerry.lawton@dailystar.co.uk

THE Moors Murderers’ “sixth victim” has told how he escaped by leaping through their living room window.

Tommy Rhattigan, aged seven at the time, said Myra Hindley grabbed his foot and screamed: “The little s**t’s getting away.’’

Her partner Ian Brady then rushed to try and stop him while shouting: “The b ***** d.’’

But Tommy managed to drag his foot clear and escaped by jumping over a wall.

Now 61, he told on last night’s Channel 5 documentar­y The Moors Murderers Left Me For Dead how he escaped the fate of five other children who were sexually tortured and killed by the evil pair.

Hindley had approached Tommy in 1963 as he played on a swing in a park near his home close to Saddlewort­h Moor, near Manchester. He said of Hindley: “I can still smell now the perfume and hairspray.

“She had these blue eyes. They looked really, really kind.”

Then she invited him home for a “jam butty” but once inside “sullen” Brady appeared and Hindley’s mood “completely changed”. Tommy then decided to flee.

Former Anglican priest David Gray told the programme how he escaped after the pair tried to abduct him outside a sweet shop when he was 10.

Brady told him he was a policeman and wanted to question him about thefts, but the duo left after David demanded to see a warrant card.

Hindley died in jail, aged 60, in 2002 while Brady died aged 79 in May at Ashworth maximum security psychiatri­c hospital, Merseyside.

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