PREVIOUSLY unseen photographs of Glasgow-born serial killer Ian Brady and accomplice Myra Hindley on holiday in Scotland could be “grave markers”.

The pictures show the Moors Murderers at Stirling Castle and Loch Long and there are also images of Brady’s former home in the Gorbals area.  Duncan Staff, the writer of the definitive account of Myra Hindley’s involvement in the brutal murders of five children in the 1960s, was left a series of photographs and her unpublished autobiography when she died in 2002 aged 60.

Brady told police who interrogated him in the 1980s that “something had happened” north of the border and he was “puzzled” as to why he “had never heard more about it”.

Photographs taken by Brady, who died last week aged 79, were used by officers to find the bodies of his victims on Saddleworth Moor.  Brady was born Ian Duncan Stewart in the Gorbals in 1938, the illegitimate son of tearoom waitress Margaret ‘Peggy’ Stewart. The identity of his father is unknown but he is believed to have been a newspaper reporter who died three months before Brady was born.

His impoverished mother “put him up for adoption in a shop window,” according to Staff and he was brought up by the Sloan family.

In the 1980s Sir Peter Topping, former head of CID at Greater Manchester Police, said in his memoirs, published in 1989, that Brady asked him “a strange question” about his jurisdiction when the then Det Chief Superintendent interviewed him.

Topping said: “He particularly wanted to know if I had jurisdiction over the border in Scotland and I replied that if he wanted to talk to me about things that happened there I felt sure the Scottish authorities would leave the interviewing to me. He said that something had happened, and he was puzzled why he had never heard more about it.”

Hindley told Topping she and Brady had been on holiday in Scotland “five or six times, maybe seven or eight, travelling sometimes on the motorcycle and sometimes by car.”  However, she said she did not think Brady had murdered anyone in Scotland.

Meanwhile, a Glasgow City Council source has said that Brady could still be cremated in Glasgow despite efforts to stop it.

The council, which runs two of the city’s crematoria said any request from his solicitor to cremate Brady in Glasgow would be turned down, and in turn put pressure on two private crematoria to do the same.  However the source said there was “nothing” the council could do if the ashes were scattered in secret.