A FORMER detective constable has spoken out about the horror of dealing with one of the UK’s most infamous criminals.

In the final programme in the crime series Y Ditectif on S4C, Mali Harries will look at one of the most horrific criminal cases in UK history: The Moors Murders.

In the captivating but unnerving show, she meets Pwllheli town councillor Evan John Hughes who was involved in the front line investigation of a crime spree that saw five children murdered in the 1960s.

Cllr Hughes, along with two other Welsh residents, speak about their time with the psychopath Ian Brady and his partner Myra Hindley as viewers get an insight into the pair’s dark and evil acts in Y Ditectif on Tuesday, 5 June.

Former detective constable Hughes relives the time he came face-to-face with Brady when he was part of the Cheshire police CID team in 1965 whereas language campaigner Enfys Llwyd sang in a choir and sextet with Hindley in Holloway Prison in the 1970s, and journalist Bob Rogers corresponded with Brady when he was at Ashworth Mental Health Hospital. All three shudder as they recall their experiences.

Brady and Hindley murdered five children over a period of 18 months in the early 1960s, burying three of them on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester.

As Mali Harries walked on the very moor that Evan Hughes and 150 other police officers trod searching for the bodies, it made her shudder too.

“Learning about the details of this case has been very difficult. Being on the moors was a very uncomfortable experience, thinking about what those children had suffered.”

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