Brady and Hindley by Fred Harrison

Author:Fred Harrison [Harrison Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

Even if Mrs Reade had informed the police about the glove that Pauline had dropped outside No 11 Wiles Street, this clue would have been insufficient to lead them to the couple who were to become infamous as the Moors murderers.

If the glove pointed at No 13 Wiles Street, then the police discharged their duty by thoroughly examining David Smith’s house. They did initially consider the possibility that he was associated with the disappearance of Pauline Reade, but they found no evidence whatsoever to sustain such a suspicion.

We are, however, left with one final puzzle over the murder of Pauline Reade. Brady was anxious to stress, for my benefit, that she did not die in Granny Maybury’s house in Bannock Street. He insisted that the girl died in Smith’s house which – because it had been demolished – could not now bear witness against them. But did the police examine 7 Bannock Street? According to the account by Emlyn Williams:

“Report from Nimmo, Manchester City: 13 Wiles Street, now empty, had been searched from rotten floorboard to peeling ceiling, and even Tyrrell hadn’t found a sausage. ‘And why’ said Talbot, ‘did the Corporation have to pull down 7 Bannock Street just to spite the police?’1

Was Brady’s house really not examined by the detectives and their forensic experts? According to Manchester City Corporation records, the odd numbered houses in Bannock Street were not demolished until August 1972 – seven years after Brady’s arrest. They were still standing when the police were tearing David Smith’s house apart.

Drawing on his fading memory, Arthur Benfield, who at the time was the Chief Superintendent in charge of Cheshire’s detectives, thought that Bannock Street had been demolished by the time they slammed Brady behind bars. I asked Robert Talbot, the superintendent who had the distinction of arresting Brady, if he had been quoted accurately by playwright Emlyn Williams. Mr Talbot, now living in retirement in the lovely medieval town of Chester, refused to comment. He was weary – and wary – of being pestered about the case. “Discretion tells me to leave it alone.”

If the police had conducted a forensic examination of 7 Bannock Street, would they have found traces of the blood of Pauline Reade?

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