Myra Hindley found it 'deeply upsetting' to be described as evil The tape recording and photographs of Lesley Ann's final moments provided damning evidence against Hindley in her trial, but in her letter she denied the horrific details of the killing. "Please believe me - not for my sake, but simply in the hope that it will give you even a little peace of mind, that however monstrous and unforgivable the crime was, your child was not tortured to death," she told Mrs West. The letter, written on September 28, 1987, at Cookham Wood prison in Rochester, Kent, was the only one Hindley sent to the grieving mother. Seven months earlier Hindley - who had been jailed for life in 1966 for the murders of Lesley Ann and Edward Evans, 17, and for being an accessory to the murder of John Kilbride, 12 - had confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12. Within the letter she claimed to have written to the Home Office and Parole Board "to say I do not wish to be considered for parole in 1990, and my own belief is that I shall probably remain in prison until I die." However, within years she had launched another application for parole, which was refused in 1994. Mrs West, who died in 1999, spent her life campaigning to keep Hindley behind bars. The killer died in prison in 2002. Ian Fairley, one of the police officers who worked on the initial investigation, told Channel 5 that he had been forced to play the tape of the torture to Mrs West as it was the only way they could identify Lesley Ann because Hindley and Brady would not confess. Saying it "broke" him, he added: "'There are no words to convey the sheer horror of the little girl being tortured and being abused, especially when you know the little girl died."