Original sentence: Committal proceedings were heard in front of three magistrates in Hyde over an 11-day period during December; at the end of which the pair were committed for trial at Chester Assizes
Edited sentence: Brady was charged with the murders of Edward Evans, John Kilbride, and Lesley Ann Downey, and Hindley with the murders of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey, as well as harbouring Brady knowing he had killed John Kilbride.Committal proceedings were heard in front of three magistrates in Hyde over an 11-day period during December, at the end of which the pair were committed for trial at Chester Assizes.Detectives were also able to identify another spot on the opposite side of the A635 road from where Lesley Ann Downey's body had been discovered, where they found the "badly decomposed" body of John Kilbride.Presented with the evidence of the tape recording, Brady admitted to taking the pornographic photographs of Lesley Ann Downey, but insisted that she had been brought to Wardle Brook Avenue by two men who subsequently taken her away again, alive.The search for further bodies continued, but with winter setting in it was called off in November