[109], Brady and Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride. She also asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly often bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable. Mrs West, 69, died at her home in Fallowfield, Manchester, on Tuesday. Hindley drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove. The bouffanted blonde and the strutting clothes horse-killer had no human feelings as they took the life of the child. Their living situation deteriorated further when Hindley's sister, Maureen, was born in August 1946, and the following year five-year-old Myra was sent to live nearby with her grandmother. [178], Although Brady refused to work with Ashworth's psychiatrists, he occasionally corresponded with people outside the hospitalsubject to prison authorities' censorship[179] including Lord Longford, writer Colin Wilson, and various journalists. Hindley, who had not replied to the first letter, responded by thanking Johnson for both letters, explaining that her decision not to reply to the first resulted from the negative publicity that surrounded it. [35] The dock was fitted with bullet proof glass to protect Brady and Hindley because it was feared that someone might try and kill them. Lesley Ann Downey, who was lured away from an Ancoats funfair near her home and killed at Hindley's home in Wardle Brook Avenue, Hattersley, on December 26, 1964. [222] Just prior to this, on 15November 2002, Hindley, aged 60 and a chain smoker, died from bronchial pneumonia at West Suffolk Hospital. [220] Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered the GMP to find new charges against Hindley to prevent her release from prison. [254], In November 2017 it was revealed that, without the knowledge of her family, some of the remains of Pauline Reade, including her jaw bone, had been kept at the University of Leeds by Greater Manchester Police. [142] The tape recording of her statement was over seventeen hours long; Topping described it as a "very well worked out performance in which, I believe, she told me just as much as she wanted me to know, and no more". [53] The couple never harmed Hodges, since she lived only a few doors away, which would have made it easy for police to solve any disappearance. [136] Writing in 1989, Topping said that he felt "quite cynical" about Hindley's motivation in helping the police. Once presented with some of the details that Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply. [138] Police closed all roads onto the moor, which was patrolled by 200 officers, some armed. [87], Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Hindley had been involved in the disappearances of other young people.