Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are two of the most notorious killers in British criminal history. They are hated for the kidnapping and murder of five children over 18 months, between July 1963 and October 1965. The pair were jailed for life in 1966 for murdering five children all from the Manchester area.lured the youngsters to their deaths, sexually torturing their victims before burying them on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines above Manchester.

Born on July 23, 1942 in Manchester, England, Myra Hindley grew up with her grandmother. After the drowning death of a close male friend when she was 15, Hindley left school and converted to Roman Catholicism. Ian Brady was born in a Glasgow, Scotland slum on January 2, 1938, to single mother Peggy Stuart. He was constantly in trouble and though he stopped for sometime he returned to crime within a short time and, as a result, ended up in Strangeways Prison at the age of 17, where he was forced to toughen up. In 1961, Hindley met Ian Brady, a stock clerk who was recently released from prison.

They kidnapped children and stabbed, raped, and buried them on the Moors. They began in 1963 and their last kill was on October 7, 1965. In that time they murdered 5 children, their youngest victim being only 10 years of age. They were caught when they murdered 17 year old Edward Evans in the presence of Hindley's brother in law David Smith. Brady and Hindley were both jailed for life, with a minimum recommended sentence of 30 years for what are today known as the 'Moors Murders'.

Safety tips

• Many of these children were walking alone, do not let your children walk alone at night.

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