I can’t stand blood

How killer blamed deaths on lover

DEVIOUS Myra Hindley told police that she “can’t stand blood” and was never present when the five Moors Murders victims died.

The warped killer’s bid to distance herself from the horror came in interviews 20 years after the murders.

But Hindley also told Det Chief Supt Peter Topping in 1987 she was “as guilty” as accomplice Ian Brady as she helped lure the children who died.

The revelations come in 700 pages of interviews uncovered by Moors Murders expert Darren Rae.

Hindley was quizzed as police mounted a new bid to find the bodies of three victims of the 1960s killings.

She told Topping: “I wouldn’t say I willingly co-operated with Ian Brady but I complied with his wishes, everything he wanted to do.

“I am guilty of abduction, not having committed a physical murder myself, of being tantamount to murder for which I feel as guilty as he is.

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“I was virtually a murderess, how many women went around abducting children to take them to their deaths?”

Last week we revealed how Hindley claimed that lover Brady had “become her God”.

Darren also said he had found shells matching a gun owned by Brady on Saddleworth Moor, Gtr Manchester.

He is convinced Brady shot 12-yearold Keith Bennett there.

The interviews with Topping were conducted at Cookham Wood jail in Kent. Hindley died in 2002, aged 60.

She and Brady were jailed for life in 1966 over the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, John Kilbride and Edward Evans.

In 1985 Brady – still held at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside – confessed to murdering Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett, 12.

Darren is writing a book – Finding Keith? The Definitive Investigation into the Moors Murders – which fully documents his new evidence.