Brady was an unusual person with a criminal background, which she was aware of. Smith had witnessed Brady killing 17-year-old Edward Evans with an axe, concealing his horror for fear of meeting a similar fate. [11], Within a year of moving to Manchester, Brady was caught with a sack full of lead seals he had stolen and was trying to smuggle out of the market. First victim Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a . Even Hindley's mother insisted that she should die in prison, partly for fear for Hindley's safety. [20] He had been known as a hard man while in the army and he expected his daughter to be equally tough; he taught her to fight and insisted that she stick up for herself. [2] The trial judge, Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". [79], Smith then watched Brady throttle Evans with a length of electrical cord. He left the academy aged 15 and took a job as a tea boy at a Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan. "Suffer Little Children" is a song by the English rock band the . The victims were children between the ages of 10 and 17, boys and girls. In 1982, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane said of Brady: "this is the case if ever there is to be one when a man should stay in prison till he dies". [266] Manchester band The Smiths' song "Suffer Little Children", from their 1984 self-titled debut album, was also inspired by the case. His stepfather, Jimmy Johnson, became a suspect; in the two years following Bennett's disappearance, Johnson was taken for questioning on four occasions. Ian Brady - Death, Victims & Myra Hindley - Biography [166] In 2017, the police asked a court to order that two locked briefcases owned by Brady be opened, arguing that they might contain clues to the location of Bennett's body; the application was declined on the grounds that no prosecution was likely to result. Myra Hindley, July 23, Myra Hindley was born 23rd July 1942, to Bob and Nellie Hindley, She was born in Crumpsall, in the United Kingdom, and grew up in Gorton which was part of Manchester.