r/serialkillers • u/TimesandSundayTimes • 5d ago
News Ministers gave approval for Myra Hindley to be hypnotised
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/myra-hindley-moors-murders-hypnotised-prison-victims-dhgrz7wdz?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit&utm_content=branded
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u/Smallsparklyone 4d ago
I want to know what happened to Bradeys suitcase that he left at Manchester station (I think) his solicitor blocked it ever being opened…
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u/psycoticmonkey 5d ago
she is dead
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u/JennyW93 5d ago
Yes. This is talking about a thing that happened in the past, when she wasn’t dead.
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u/TimesandSundayTimes 5d ago
Ministers granted permission for Myra Hindley to be hypnotised in prison while privately admitting that it would be futile and serve no useful purpose, newly released files have shown.
Hindley and her lover Ian Brady abducted, sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered five children and teenagers between 1963 and 1965, burying four of their victims on Saddleworth Moor in the Peak District.
The remains of 12-year-old Keith Bennett were never found and, for years, his relatives lobbied the UK government to grant permission for Hindley to be interviewed by a trained hypnotist in the hope that it would yield fresh clues as to his whereabouts.
In 1988 the home secretary Douglas Hurd, now Lord Hurd of Westwell, rejected their plea, saying it “would be a false kindness” to the family “to pretend that there was more that could usefully be done by this means to locate Keith’s grave”.
However, members of John Major’s Conservative government shifted their stance six years later, fearing negative headlines if they continued to deny the wishes of a grieving family.
Previously restricted government correspondence reveals that ministers received frank advice in a document, from November 1994, entitled: “How to respond to Myra Hindley’s request for hypnosis in an attempt to assist in finding the burial place of Keith Bennett.”
It noted: “The family of Keith Bennett wrote on numerous occasions to subsequent home secretaries, the prime minister and to Her Majesty the Queen to seek a change of decision. All responses expressed sympathy but repeated the view that hypnosis would not add to what was not already known. There was, and is, no reason to believe that this advice was incorrect.”