Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price shot ‘Coronation Street’ trial scenes in cells used to hold the evil Moors Murderers.
The pair’s sibling characters David Platt and Nick Tilsley will go on trial next week after stealing and spending their gran Audrey Roberts’ (Sue Nicholls) £80,000 inheritance, and some filming took place in a cell downstairs at Chester Crown Court, where Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were housed as they awaited trial for killing kids.
A source said: "During the trial of the Moors Murderers at Chester Crown Court, Hindley and Brady would be brought in each day and held in a cell downstairs before, and during breaks in, proceedings.
"As David and Nick’s trial was held there, a couple of scenes were filmed in those cells – and it was pointed out to them and the crew who had once been held there."
The ‘Corrie’ cast and crew were said to have been left "a little bit creeped out" by the location.
The insider added to The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre TV column: "It’s fair to say that everyone who worked in the cells felt a little bit creeped out by it."
In May 1966, Brady was handed three concurrent life sentences for "three calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders", and Hindley was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences for two killings and found not guilty of the other. In 1987, the pair admitted to killing another two youngsters.
Nick and David will appear in court next week after they used their gran’s inheritance to buy barbers Trim Up North, and there will be no love lost between the brothers during the trial scenes.
Ben recently admitted he and Jack are not afraid to be "quite nasty to each other" on ‘Coronation Street’ because they are so close in real life.
When asked what it is like playing squabbling siblings, Ben said: "Yeah, we love all that. We do get on really well and because of that we are not afraid to be quite nasty to each other.
"It’s essential when you are going for it, you go for it.
"It’s very easy to work with Jack because we both recognise that, especially on ‘Coronation Street’, you have to show different sides of a character.
"This is a family story and that’s why I think they are such a strong family because we all play our parts."
Jack P Shepherd and Ben Price film Corrie scenes in Moors Murderers’ cells
