This three-part documentary which hangs on ‘never before seen’ letters and an interview with Myra Hindley’s brother-in-law is a thinly veiled ratings-chaser with little value

Is it strange, or is it wrong, that I hadn’t thought of them in a while? Or is that, in fact, the way it should be? Should we let monsters endure in the memory or should we deny them as much space in our lives as we can?

There was no sign that any such questions had been asked before or during the making of Channel 4’s new three-part documentary Moors Murders: The Witness, which dragged the heinous crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley before us once again. I looked for a reason for it – the marking of some terrible anniversary, perhaps, or the beginning of a new search of Saddleworth Moor for Keith Bennett’s body, which remains the only one of the couple’s five victims not yet found. There seems to be none.

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