One of Your Own (71 page)

80.
   Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 279.

81.
   Myra Hindley, letter to Peter Stanford, 4 February 1987.

82.
   Ibid.

83.
   Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.

84.
   Ibid.

85.
   Ibid.

86.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 3 December 1987. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

87.
   Bernard Black, author interview, Portsmouth, 19 August 2009.

88.
   Margaret Black, author interview, Portsmouth, 19 August 2009. Bernard lost contact with Hindley around 1999 when he suffered a stroke.

89.
   Myra Hindley, 28 April 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

90.
   Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is the author of
Eve Was Framed
and
Just Law
. Myra contributed to neither book.

91.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 2 June 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

92.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 28 July 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

93.
   Diana Athill,
Stet: An Editor’s Life
(London: Grove Press, 2002), p. 96.

94.
   Ibid., p. 97.

95.
   Ibid., p. 97.

96.
   Andrew McCooey, telephone interview, 11 August 2009.

97.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 29 September 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

98.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 4 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

99.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 18 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

100.
 Ritchie,
Myra Hindley
, p. 16.

101.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 18 November 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

102.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 19 September 1989. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.

103.
 Peter Stanford, author interview, London, 24 June 2009.

104.
 Ibid.

105.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 20 April 1989. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.

106.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 2 December 1988. Reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Stanford.

107.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1988. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

108.
 Ibid.

109.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 3 April 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

110.
 Ibid.

111.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 1 May 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

112.
 David Astor, letter, 18 July 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

113.
 Unsigned report on the Hindley manuscript. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

*114.   Yvonne Roberts, author interview, London, 27 July 2009.

115.
 Ibid.

116.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 8 October 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection. Alan Bennett also corresponded with Ian Brady in the hope that he would reveal information leading to the discovery of Keith’s grave.

117.
 Revd Peter Timms, author interview, Sussex, 28 July 2009.

118.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 11 December 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

119.
 Myra Hindley, letter, 26 November 1989. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

1.
     Ian Brady, letter, 16 January 1990. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

2.
     Andrew McCooey, letter, 12 June 1991. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

3.
     On New Year’s Day 1992, Longford wrote to her: ‘Thank you very much for the Christmas card, with its message of friendship for Elizabeth and me. I cannot resist telling you how much I miss coming to see you but understand your feeling that it is better not to.’ (From the David Astor archive, private collection.)

4.
     Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

5.
     Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.

6.
     Myra Hindley, undated correspondence. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

7.
     Geraldine Bedell, ‘Profile: Beyond Forgiveness? Myra Hindley’,
The Independent
(18 April 1993).

8.
     Ibid.

9.
     Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

10.
   Ibid.

11.
   Ibid.

12.
   Ibid.

13.
   Ibid.

14.
   Steve Boggan, ‘How I Fell in Love with Myra: Nina Wilde’,
The Independent
(9 February 1997).

15.
   Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan,
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

16.
   Ibid.

17.
   Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

18.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

19.
   Myra Hindley, solicitor correspondence, 24 June 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

20.
   Myra Hindley, campaign correspondence, 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

21.
   Ibid.

22.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1994. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

23.
   Ibid.

24.
   Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

25.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

26.
   Ibid.

27.
   Ibid.

28.
   Ibid.

29.
   Internal memo, 1994. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/34.

30.
   Ibid.

31.
   Topping intended to brief the hypnotist first as to where he believed the grave might be, thereby leaving little room for a location other than Shiny Brook to be considered.

32.
   Hindley had written previously to David Astor about press reports that Paul McKenna would hypnotise her to find Keith’s grave: ‘I’ve never even heard of Paul McKenna and wrote to the PCC [Press Complaints Commission] myself to say I hadn’t.’

33.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

34.
   Ibid.

35.
   Ibid.

36.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 30 May 1995. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

37.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

38.
   Internal memo, 26 July 1995. National Archive, Myra Hindley Home Office files, HO336/34.

39.
   Ibid.

40.
   David Astor, letter, 12 October 1995. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

41.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 14 November. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

42.
   David Rowan and Duncan Campbell, ‘Myra Hindley: My Life, My Guilt, My Weakness’,
The Guardian
(18 December 1995).

43.
   Ibid.

44.
   Myra Hindley, solicitor correspondence, 29 August 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

45.
   David Astor, letter, 9 September 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

46.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 10 November 1996. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

47.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 20 February 1997. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

48.
   David Astor, letter, 20 October 1997. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

49.
   Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
.

50.
   Ibid.

51.
   Margaret Mounsey, author interview, Preston, 14 July 2009.

1.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 2 March 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

2.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 30 June 1998. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bernard Black.

3.
     Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.

4.
     Ibid.

5.
     Ibid.

6.
     Alan Watkins, ‘Hindley – An Icon of Evil: The Myra I Knew’,
Sunday Mirror
(17 November 2002).

7.
     Myra Hindley, letter, 2 March 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

8.
     Myra Hindley, letter, July 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

9.
     Ibid.

10.
   Robert Verkaik, ‘The Death of Myra Hindley: The Letters’,
The Independent
(16 November 2002).

11.
   Steve Boggan, ‘Revealed: New evidence that might free Myra Hindley’,
The Independent
(15 August 1998).

12.
   Steve Boggan, ‘Hindley Happy to Kill, Says Brady’,
The Independent
(28 August 1998).

13.
   Anon., ‘Myra Went to the Ends of the Earth for Brady . . . They Were Bonded by Blood’,
Daily Mirror
(9 February 1999).

14.
   Myra Hindley, letter, August 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

15.
   Ibid.

16.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 2 September 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

17.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 7 December 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

18.
   David Astor and Terry Waite, letter, 23 December 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

19.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 6 January 1999. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

20.
   Myra Hindley, letter, 22 January 1999. Reproduced with the kind permission of Bernard Black.

21.
   Joe Chapman,
Out of the Frying Pan
(London: Chipmunka Publishing, 2009).

22.
   Joe Chapman, author interview, Oxford, 18 July 2009.

23.
   Anon., ‘Victim’s Mother Determined Hindley Should Not Be Released’, BBC News online (17 December 1997).

24.
   David Astor, 30 May 1998. From the David Astor archive, private collection.

25.
   Bridget Astor, author interview, London, 28 July 2009.

26.
   Ibid.

27.
   Father Michael Teader, author interview, Suffolk, 3 September 2009.