“My recollection is we brought him back from Stockport to Oldham in our car. “Yet when he was found, hiding in a loft in Stockport, he told us: ‘I will come down if you don’t hit me’. “He was thought to be the youngest person ever to be detained in Strangeways because there was nowhere else would keep him. “I was told I should have written a book, perhaps I should,” says Ian, a father of six and granddad of three. He received three life sentences at Manchester Crown Court in 1977.Ī fourth girl, Dorothy Leyden, was murdered in 1971 – days after Hardy’s release from prison – but the case remains unsolved. Hardy also killed Wanda Skala, 17, in July 1975 while 15-year-old Lesley Jane Stewart was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve 1974. She was murdered by stabbing and strangulation her body was found naked and mutilated in Failsworth in March 1976. Ian, now 74, was interviewed at length for the documentary, having worked extensively on the murder of Hardy’s final victim, 17-year-old Sharon Mosoph. Now, Hardy’s story has been re-told in a one-hour programme on Crime + Investigation called Britain’s Forgotten Serial Killer: Trevor Hardy. The killer died of a heart attack in Wakefield Prison in 2012, aged 67. Vicious Hardy, nicknamed the ‘Beast of Manchester’, murdered three young women during the 1970s and is suspected by Ian and others of being responsible for a fourth death.
Ian KirkpatrickĪ new documentary has led Ian Kirkpatrick to review the case of evil killer Trevor Hardy. A FORMER Shaw policeman has been re-living his part in the hunt for and conviction of one of Manchester’s most notorious serial killers.
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