Buzzcocks' Steve Diggle reveals he 'escaped from Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley' as a child

Steve Diggle has revealed he had a run-in with notorious Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley when he was a child.

The Buzzcocks musician, 70, grew up in the Bradford area of Manchester where he met the couple as an eight year old. 

Speaking to the i paper, he said: 'It was Bonfire Night. This Teddy Boy and this blonde woman came over, and he said – 'Come sit next to Myra.' She lived down the road. 

'I might have gone, but I was messing about with the doctor's daughter. So I managed to escape that.' 

The twisted couple who have been remembered as 'The Moors Murderers' engaged in the sadistic brutality and murder of five children, before burying their bodies in Saddleworth Moor in North West England in the 1960s. 

Myra grew up in Crumpsall, Manchester while Ian, born in Glasgow, moved to the city in his teens. 

The couple moved to 16 Wardle Brook Avenue in late 1964 and planned some of the murders there. 

The house was demolished in 1987 by Manchester City Council because no one wanted to rent it. It remains an empty plot to this day.    

Their first victim was Pauline Reade, who was murdered by Brady and Hindley when she was just 16 years old, in 1963. She had picked up by Hindley and taken to the moor where she was sexually assaulted and strangled by Brady. 

Hindley and Brady then lured schoolboy, 12-year-old John Kibride, from a market in Ashton-Under-Lyne in 1963. 

In a familiar pattern, the three of them ended up taking a detour to windswept Saddleworth Moor. Brady told Hindley he sexually assaulted and strangled the boy. 

The third victim was 12-year-old Keith Bennet in 1964, with Hindley luring him into a van by asking him to help with some boxes and sadistic lover Brady watching his prey from the back seat.

With the three taking yet another detour to windswept Saddleworth Moor, Brady later told Hindley he sexually assaulted and strangled the boy. He is the only of the five victim's whose body has never been found. 

Youngest victim Lesley Ann Downey, 10, had been lured from a fairground to Hindley and Brady's home in 1964, where, once inside the house, she was undressed, gagged and strangled. 

She was later found naked with her clothes at her feet, in a shallow grave on the moor, after a sickening 16-minute recording of her death was captured by the pair. 

The final victim was 17-year-old Edward Evans, who was attacked with an axe, smothered with a cushion and strangled with an electrical cable in 1965. 

Forensic psychologist Jeremy Coid, who conducted a mental health review of Brady in 2003, said that although Brady's crimes were shocking he had on the occasion encountered worse. 

However, the Moors Murderer's aura engendered in him a personal dislike he had never encountered before. 

He explained: 'I think if you're an experienced forensic psychiatrist it's important to be aware of how your patients make you feel and how they make you feel towards them. 

'He didn't make me afraid at all, but he produced in me a profoundly negative feeling. 

'A feeling of personal dislike towards him that grew and grew as the interview went on.

'He was doing something to me, to my inner world. It became quite clear he was trying to control me throughout the interview. 

'I've seen offenders who have committed extremely unpleasant and sometimes possibly even worse murders that haven't managed to produce such a negative reaction in me.'

Brady never showed any remorse for his heinous crimes, while Hindley maintained she had been beaten and drugged by her partner into becoming a cold-blooded killer. 

Touching on the deviant's callous lack of remorse, Professor Coid said: 'He never showed any remorse and made it clear he never would. 

'I asked him about remorse and he referred to it as wind and said "if they want wind they would have to wait till Doomsday before they got it."'