"Suffer Little Children" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths, written by singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr.
[3]Although five children were murdered in the Moors murders case, only three are named in the song; John Kilbride ("oh John you'll never be a man"), Lesley Ann Downey ("Lesley Ann with your pretty white beads"), and Edward Evans ("Edward, see those alluring lights").
[4] The murders of Keith Bennett and Pauline Reade were not attributed to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady until 1985,[5] after "Suffer Little Children" had already been released.
First released on The Smiths in February 1984, it was re-released in May as a B-side of the single "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now".
Some newspapers also claimed that the single's sleeve photo of Viv Nicholson was intended to resemble Myra Hindley.