PAULINE READE, 16

Ian killed girl, we drove past her mum then went back to return stolen coins

HINDLEY told police how she and Brady returned to the scene where Pauline Reade was killed to scatter four coins.

She told Det Chief Supt Peter Topping how Brady had found four crowns – a crown was five shillings in pre-decimal money – in Pauline’s pockets.

After killing her he took the cash and spent it on Capstan cigarettes and a Crunchie chocolate bar for Hindley.

It was July 1963 and Hindley said she believed that if money was stolen a death sentence was more likely if they were caught.

So they got another four crowns and drove back to the scene to toss them in the grass.

Hindley said that just after the killing she and Brady had driven past members of Pauline’s family.

“He (Brady) was in the van with me and I said ‘that’s her mother and her brother’,” Hindley told Topping. She said she knew the Reades and walked to work with 16-year-old Pauline’s mother.

Of the abduction, Hindley said: “I pulled up and offered her a lift and she went into the van and I said would you do me a favour and help me find a glove that I love?”

In fact she was delivering Pauline into the hands of Brady. She said he led Pauline on to the Moors and was gone for what felt like an “eternity”.

He later led his evil accomplice to the body. Hindley added: “I knew he was going to kill her but he didn’t say how.

“He was going to bury her because he’d told me he was going to commit this perfect murder and the only way to do it was for the body never to be found.”

Hindley also claimed Brady tried to strangle her when she cried after Pauline’s mum pleaded in the local paper for the girl to come home.

BURIED Pauline, right, and mum