A FORMER detective constable from Pwllheli has for the first time relived the harrowing experience of informing a mother that her 17-year-old son had been brutally killed by murderer Ian Brady.

Evan John Hughes, who is now a Pwllheli town councillor, was a senior officer with Cheshire Police while living in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, with his wife and 12-month-old daughter when Brady was arrested in October 1965.

Brady, who, along with his lover Myra Hindley, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s and buried at least four of the victims on Saddleworth Moor, died earlier this year aged 79 at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric unit in Merseyside where he had been detained since 1985.

Mr Hughes told the Cambrian News: “I was one of the first people to sit down with Brady after his arrest – I just recall a quiet angry man who didn’t say anything and acted as if he hadn’t done anything wrong. I remember that vividly.

“He was sitting there when Edward Evans was dead in his house, but it was up to me to drive to see Edward’s mother to let her know what had happened.

“He had been killed with an axe but obviously I couldn’t say that. I remember standing outside her door for a long time before going in. I walked down a long hallway to find her surrounded by friends and family – I think she knew it was going to be bad news.

“I drove her to identify the body. It was terrible, she was obviously very traumatised.

“I was also tasked with guarding the body of Lesley Ann Downey after her body was found, it was just one of my duties at the time.”

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