Joe Chapman befriended Myra Hindley behind bars while working as a type of therapist and revealed he trusted the child killer with his own eight-year-old daughter
A former prison officer who befriended child-killer Myra Hindley in prison revealed he once trusted her with his own eight-year-old daughter.
Joe said: "She was taken under their wing by the women in the lifer unit, all of whom I'd known for nearly a year. She enjoyed Cookham, she went to the hairdressing salon first and had her nails done and what have you and then they took her and she did a bit of cooking." But despite Hindley's history, Joe said he "trusted her" and allowed her to sit and make a craft project with his daughter in a side room next to the governor's office.
She had keys allowing access to and out of the prison's facilities. Joe said that, after Sophie and Hindley had played on the trampoline for a while, Wilde took them out "for a walk in the grounds to look in the pond at the frogs and tadpoles".
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