Actress Lesley-Anne Down has recalled the terrifying moment she was almost kidnapped as a child, shortly after Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady killed a young girl with an almost identical name.

The celebrated actress was 11-years old and living with her parents at their south west London home in 1965 as the sadistic couple entered the final months of a two-year killing spree, during which they kidnapped and murdered five children in and around Manchester.  

And Down, now 66, reveals she came close to being snatched herself when a stranger tried to entice her into a car, shortly after the body of fourth victim Lesley-Ann Downey, aged 10, was found in a shallow grave on Greater Manchester's Saddleworth Moor.






Ordeal: Actress Lesley-Anne Down has recalled the terrifying moment she was almost kidnapped at the age of 11, shortly after Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady killed a young girl with an almost identical name


She told The Mirror: 'I was almost kidnapped when Lesley Ann Downey had just been found. I'd run ahead of my mother.






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'When she caught up, the man had stopped me, told me he needed a babysitter and we would call my parents when we got to his house

'I remember having one foot in the car. Seeing my mother broke his spell. I screamed. My mother ran to me and told me to run to my father. He called the police. Of course my mother couldn't hold him… he was gone






/>Horror: The celebrated actress was living with her parents as the sadistic couple entered the final months of a two-year killing spree, during which they kidnapped and murdered five children in and around Manchester (pictured following their arrest)







/>Tragic: Down, now 66, reveals she came close to being snatched herself when a stranger tried to entice her into a car, shortly after the body of 10-year old Lesley-Ann Downey (pictured in 1964) was found


/>With Down being close to the same age as tragic Lesley, and bearing a very similar name, the actress admits her mother was in a heightened state of panic following the incident. 

/>She said: 'If a child the same age as yours, whose name was Lesley Ann Downey, was found buried on the moors and then your child was almost taken… wouldn't you be? I was 11 as she would have been had she lived

r />Brady and Hindley were arrested in October 1965 and subsequently charged with the murders of Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans, all aged between 10 and 17. Bennett's body has never been foun

r />It would transpire that Lesley had been snatched by the couple after being asked to help carry some packages to their ca






r />Traumatic: 'I remember having one foot in the car. Seeing my mother broke his spell. I screamed. My mother ran to me and told me to run to my father,' she said of the 1965 or







r />Popular: Lesley would go on to enjoy enormous success in Britain and 성인웹툰 추천 the United states after being named Britain's most beautiful teen at the age










Classic: She would go to enjoy prominent roles in a variety of shows, including period drama Upstairs, Downstairs (pic



Actress Lesley would go on to enjoy enormous success in Britain and the United states after being named Britain's most beautiful teen at the age of 15, with her film debut coming in 1969 sexploitation drama The Smashing Bird I Used to K


She would go to enjoy prominent roles in period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, and hit film The Return of the Pink Panther, in which she starred alongside comic genius Peter Se


She also worked alongside Harrison Ford and Christopher Plummer in romantic war-time drama Hannover Stree







Old times: Lesley worked alongside comic genius Peter Sellers in 1976 film The Return of the Pink P








On screen chemistry: She also starred with Harrison Ford in romantic war-time drama Hannover





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Actress Lesley-Anne Down says stranger tried to abduct her when she was 11 - Mirror Online