Monster’s torture spree is revealed in secret file

MYRA Hindley accused Ian Brady of “practising” the Moors murders on her, according to documents handed over hours before her death.

She claimed he throttled her to black-out, raped, beat and bit her to ensure she assisted him in his child-killing spree.

He warned her if she showed any signs of backing out she would have finished up in the same grave as their first victim – 16-year-old Pauline Reade.

Hindley claimed Brady threatened her with a knife and urinated over her. As he cleaned a rifle in front of her she said she begged him to shoot her to put her out of her misery.

But she admitted she was trapped in Brady’s prison.

“Whilst I feared and often hated him I was so emotionally obsessed with him I just couldn’t change my feelings for him,” she wrote. The documents – which will be unveiled to the public for the first time tomorrow – were handed over by Hindley as she was escorted from HMP Highpoint to the West Sussex Hospital the day she died.

They formed part of an appeal to reduce her life sentence.

After Brady discovered her claims he wrote to then-Home Secretary Jack Straw in a bid to scupper her freedom bid.

He claimed the evil pair were “a unified force – not two conflicting entities” and that Hindley regarded periodic homicides as “binding us ever closer”.

Brady and Hindley were each jailed for life in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, and 10-year-olds Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans. They later admitted they also killed Pauline and 12-year-old Keith Bennett.

Their victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester.

Hindley died in jail in 2002 aged 60 of cancer.

Brady died last May aged 79 from chronic lung disease inside Ashworth maximum security psychiatric hospital in Merseyside.

Hindley’s private papers have been acquired by the Crime Through Time museum at Littledean Jail in Gloucestershire, where they will go on display this weekend.

In them she claims Brady coerced her into Pauline’s murder in 1963.

“As we were driving home he told me that if I’d shown any signs of backing out I would have finished up in the same grave as Pauline Reade did,” she wrote. I just said: ‘I know.’”

Hindley, a neighbour of Pauline’s, claimed she began to shake and cry after reading a missing appeal by the youngster’s parents – only to be throttled by Brady.

“He grabbed the paper off me... put the bolt on the front door in case gran came back, did the same to the back door, and began to strangle me,” she wrote.

“Before I lost consciousness I heard him remind me of what he’d said after Pauline’s murder and that threat still stood.

“I used to ask him why he kept strangling me so much, so many times – this was before the offences took place – and he told me he was “practising” on me.

“I said one of these days he was going to go too far and kill me, but he just laughed and said he wouldn’t – he needed me.”

She claimed he once strangled her as he raped her.

“Then he bit my cheekbone just below the right eye until my face began to bleed. I’d tried to fight him off strangling me and biting me but the more I did, the more the pressure increased.'”

She gave a graphic account of him urinating over her which she said left her humiliated.

“I had no self-esteem or self-respect whereas before I met him, and for the year I worked with him before he first made a date with me, I was an attractive, confident and sociable teenager, never short of dates.”

Hindley said Brady ordered her to take out a series of dark books from the library, including one called Sexual Murders, and to buy others by the Marquis de Sade.

There are also letters written to her by Keith’s brother Alan begging her to reveal where his remains are buried.

But Brady and Hindley both took that secret to their graves.

Museum curator Andy Jones, 56, said: “Shame the death penalty had been abolished before she and Brady were given a life sentence. My view is that they should have been hanged.”