Brit rock singer Gary Glitter, who is a convicted paedophile, sparked outrage when it was revealed he wanted to buy a home overlooking the bleak moor where Ian Brady and Myra Hindley buried their child victims. Glitter, 65, real name Paul Gadd, is house-hunting for a property in the region of 900,000 pounds on the outskirts [...] Related posts: Gary Glitter : Gary Glitter drops legal battle...
... has spanned three decades, Morrissey, 50, has never been far from controversy. Songs about the MoorsMurders, one called Girlfriend In A Coma, and an album titled the Queen Is Dead saw his band publicly castigated. During Desert Island Discs, broadcast today, he says: “Yes I have [thought about ending it all] and I think self-destruction is honourable. I always thought it was...
The two-part film shows how street play hit a peak in the increasingly prosperous 50s only to fall back in the face of rapidly increasing traffic, parental fears after the MoorsMurders of the 60s, the rise of television and, finally, the inexorable march of the computer game.
News has reached me that Sky 1 had commissioned The Search With Martina Cole , which was scheduled for transmission in early 2010. The documentary planned to search for the remains of MoorsMurder victim Keith Bennett but has now been dropped after his mother confirmed she was not prepared to take part. Martina had been lined up to front the show, which would have investigated the whereabouts...
... a missing child who lived just down the road from me. It was just after the horrific 1960s’ MoorsMurders in England. The search for Stephen Shepherd was the biggest UK police operation in UK history. When a child went missing, folks paled and talked of paedophile killings similar to those committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Turned out that the wee boy -- twelve year old...
