The Moors Murders
Why did Myra Hindley help Ian Brady with the killings?
It is important for us to understand what went on in her life before this all happened because only then will we be able to understand why she took part in the killings. One can say that she participated in the killings due to some psychological traits that she experienced.
Myra Hindley was the accomplice to Ian Brady’s murders of five innocent young children during the 1960s(1) .The couple raped, tortured and murdered their victims, and then buried them in the Saddleworth Moor.(1)
Up until the age of three Myra lived alone with her mother, in her grandmothers’ home, as her father was fighting during World War Two. When her father came back, they moved into a home which …show more content…
She had taken care of many other children, through babysitting, but her love for children changed when her close friend drowned. Due to this tragedy she started wearing black, her grades were dropping and then she dropped out of school to start work(5).
Before she met Ian Brady, she was engaged to Ronnie Sinclair but called it off because she wanted to find something more exciting. She had started to change when Ian and herself became a couple(5). She was secretive, changed her appearance and the two became inseparable(3).
Some of her psychopathic traits included: lack of empathy and emotion, troublesome behaviour, dislike of others and she was manipulative(5). She knew that the children were going to be brutally murdered even though she claimed that she was never part of the killings(3). This made the case against her stronger because every single detail of all the murders were precisely planned, carried out and recorded(3).
Therefore, due to the surrounding of her past, Myra Hindley did not think that what she did was wrong, even though she claims that she did not partake in any of the …show more content…
This article is valuable as it gives us more insight into the topic, and it gives us the latest information of the about the topic. It can also be trusted because it comes from a reliable source, the UK newspaper. It has limitations as it can be seen as being bias, due to the use of emotive language. It can also be the writer wanting to put across a particular point of view. Source 5 was extracted from an article written by a counter terrorism student. The purpose of this article was to give us an understanding of the mindset of Myra Hindley that could have led to her participating in the murders. This source is valuable because it gives us corresponding information to other sources. It could be a reliable source as it gives correct facts, but it could also be unreliable as it was written by a student that does not have the extreme depth of the
Why did Myra Hindley help Ian Brady with the killings?
It is important for us to understand what went on in her life before this all happened because only then will we be able to understand why she took part in the killings. One can say that she participated in the killings due to some psychological traits that she experienced.
Myra Hindley was the accomplice to Ian Brady’s murders of five innocent young children during the 1960s(1) .The couple raped, tortured and murdered their victims, and then buried them in the Saddleworth Moor.(1)
Up until the age of three Myra lived alone with her mother, in her grandmothers’ home, as her father was fighting during World War Two. When her father came back, they moved into a home which …show more content…
She had taken care of many other children, through babysitting, but her love for children changed when her close friend drowned. Due to this tragedy she started wearing black, her grades were dropping and then she dropped out of school to start work(5).
Before she met Ian Brady, she was engaged to Ronnie Sinclair but called it off because she wanted to find something more exciting. She had started to change when Ian and herself became a couple(5). She was secretive, changed her appearance and the two became inseparable(3).
Some of her psychopathic traits included: lack of empathy and emotion, troublesome behaviour, dislike of others and she was manipulative(5). She knew that the children were going to be brutally murdered even though she claimed that she was never part of the killings(3). This made the case against her stronger because every single detail of all the murders were precisely planned, carried out and recorded(3).
Therefore, due to the surrounding of her past, Myra Hindley did not think that what she did was wrong, even though she claims that she did not partake in any of the …show more content…
This article is valuable as it gives us more insight into the topic, and it gives us the latest information of the about the topic. It can also be trusted because it comes from a reliable source, the UK newspaper. It has limitations as it can be seen as being bias, due to the use of emotive language. It can also be the writer wanting to put across a particular point of view. Source 5 was extracted from an article written by a counter terrorism student. The purpose of this article was to give us an understanding of the mindset of Myra Hindley that could have led to her participating in the murders. This source is valuable because it gives us corresponding information to other sources. It could be a reliable source as it gives correct facts, but it could also be unreliable as it was written by a student that does not have the extreme depth of the