![]() ![]() ![]() They may have only been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Edward Evans.įurther searches of the moors discovered the bodies of Pauline Reade, 16, and John Kilbride, but the remains of 12-year-old Keith Bennett have never been found. Had Bob not made his awful discovery, the full extent of Brady and Hindley's crimes may never have been unearthed. He loved going into town shopping during the week.” He was the ideal beat bobby because he loved people and loved meeting and talking to people. He was so well-known and well-liked in the area. His son Scott said at the time: "Dad is going to be missed by a lot of people. Paramedics and police tried to revive him. Sadly, he collapsed in the town centre a few weeks ago. We wouldn't have found John Kilbride a few days later.”īob Spiers was a well-known officer in Garstang. "Had we not found her then that was it and the search was off. I said: 'If that's a sheep it's wearing clothes." "I said I've found something, but nobody wanted to know," he recalled. Eventually, the sergeant came first and the others followed. I don't know what made me stay but something did. Why did I go right the way up there? Those moors had been searched the previous day and the day before that. ![]() He told reporters many years ago: "It sounds daft but something was drawing me up there. Bob shouted to them that he was busy 'answering a call of nature'. They'd spent three days on the moors looking for John Kilbride. His colleagues were waiting in vans in the drizzle and were ready to go home. He had only been a police officer for a month and was apparently a bit of an annoyance to his colleagues.īob, who was 23 at the time, was up on Saddleworth Moor and was refusing to come down. So, I thought we should remember Bob here. When he died late last September he warranted barely a mention in the media, only the Garstang newspapers gave him a few paragraphs. Not forgotten on the streets where he patrolled - but forgotten to the rest of the world. Yet, Bob became a bit of 'forgotten hero' in his later life. He had to be, he lived on the streets of Garstang in Lancashire as a beat bobbie.īut at one time people felt that Bob had a 'spiritual awareness' about one of the worst series of crimes in the North of England, the Moors Murders.Ĭertainly it was his dogged determination and single-mindedness that led him to the discovery of Lesley Ann Downey's body in the rain-soaked peat of the Moors overlooking Saddleworth. Developing and initial testing of pro-poor prenuptial agreements as a new land tenure tool to secure rights in urban State-Subsidized. Her voluntary work has included being a board member of the Christian Lawyer's Association.Bob Spiers was an old-fashioned kind of man. Leslie has worked as an attorney, notary and conveyancer in the private sector, as a consultant to local government and with NPO's involved with education and the fine arts. The thesis explored ante-nuptial and inheritance agreements (with dispute resolution clauses) to pre-empt conflict over State-subsidized housing, and the impact of informal practices on State land information systems. In 2015 she completed an MPhil in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (UCT - awarded with distinction). She has a BA LLB (University of Pretoria), English Honours (UNISA) and a Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law Certificate (CICLASS - University of Stellenbosch). She has worked both with mainstream property matters and with pro-poor interventions for State-subsidized housing. After a career as a property lawyer (with lecturing experience in family law, social law and business law at UNISA and UCT) Leslie now applies her experience to alternative strategies for conflict resolution.
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