Revealed: Girl of 14 could be fifth victim of Moors murderers Hindley and Brady

A fellow prisoner says the Moors Murderer confessed to killing a young hitchhiker who she and her lover Ian Brady picked up.

Brady's lawyer claims to have discovered the name of the teenage girl and expects his client to confirm that she was another of the couple's victims.

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"The person has now been identified," said lawyer Giovanni di Stefano. "I will send a picture and message to Mr Brady to see if he is able to confirm such."

Mr di Stefano - nicknamed the Devil's Advocate after his claims to have represented Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic and Harold Shipman - said he would reveal only that the girl was 14, her initials were JT and she was staying at a children's home in Oldham at the time.

An obscure website discussion about Brady refers to Jennifer Tighe, a 14-year-old who went missing in the middle of the Moors Murderers' killing spree.

However, Greater Manchester Police dismissed Mr di Stefano's claim. "This is so much hogwash and this lawyer is callously using the Moors Murders as a marketing tool," said a senior source.

"During all the thorough investigations over 40-odd years this name has never materialised. Three months ago di Stefano claimed Brady was about to reveal the location of the body of victim Keith Bennett - we are still waiting."

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Hindley was jailed for life in 1966 with Brady for the murders of ten-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans, 17. Brady was also convicted of murdering 12-year-old John Kilbride. Hindley was found to be an accessory to the killing.

In 1987 the pair confessed to killing 12-year-old Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade, 16.

Hindley's 'confession' to another killing - which would be her fifth and Brady's sixth - emerged four years ago when Linda Calvey - another of Mr di Stefano's clients - recounted conversations she claimed to have had with the Moors Murderer while both were in Highpoint jail in Suffolk.

Calvey - known as the Black Widow - said Hindley made the disclosure as she did her hair.

"She talked about how sad it was if you disappeared off the face of the earth and nobody knew or cared," Calvey told a tabloid newspaper.

"I laughed and said in my position I would think it would be wonderful to disappear. She said: 'No, I mean, disappearing off the face of the earth and nobody bother'."

Calvey claimed Hindley told her she and Brady went out for a drive and saw a young girl thumbing a lift. The girl was going to see a friend in Kilburn, North-West London.

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Calvey claims Hindley refused to divulge the girl's name and when she asked Hindley why she had never mentioned another victim, she allegedly replied: "Would you declare somebody nobody had ever mentioned?"

Mr di Stefano said Hindley - who died in 2002 after 36 years behind bars - did not give Calvey the girl's name, merely a rough age and physical description.

He says he identified her by matching the details with children who went missing when Hindley and Brady - who is now in Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool - were killing between 1963 and 1965.

Mr di Stefano added: "This is the culmination of four years' work. It has taken me a while to track down the 14-year-old girl's relatives.

"She went missing from a children's home in Oldham on December 30, 1964. I have no doubt that she was murdered by Myra Hyndley and Ian Brady.

"It would not be fair to name the girl at the moment. The problem is that this girl has living relatives. I am not sure if this living relative has disclosed to their partner the existence of a child.

"I have no reason to doubt what Calvey says. I know her and I knew Myra very well.

"There is no point in going to the police with this information because it would serve no purpose. Brady is not going to go on trial again for murder."

Calvey became known as the Black Widow after her first husband was shot dead by police and then she was jailed for shooting an ex-lover.

Former Detective Chief Superintendent Geoff Knupfer, who took Hindley's confessions to killing Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade, said: "We were satisfied there weren't any other victims.

"Hindley was co-operating then because she wanted to be released, and I'm fairly sure she was telling the truth."