moors murderer myra hindley dies

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moors murderer hindley had long been the subject of campaigns to release her and keep her inside. aged 60, hindley died from chest pains and a suspected heart attack.

to many in the uk it brings to an end part of a terrible legacy begun nearly 40years ago. her partner in the savage child murdersm ian brady, is aged 64 and still on hunger strike at ashworth maximum security hospital.

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MURDERS SHOCKED NATION


The crimes of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady shattered the innocence of a nation.

That youngsters could be simply snatched off the street to be sexually abused and tortured to death sent shockwaves through a country where children were left to play on unsupervised in their communities.


Pauline Read was the first child to suffer the consequences of Brady and Hindley's sadistic and warped minds.

The 16-year-old vanished on July 12, 1963 on her way to a disco near her home in Gorton, Manchester.

It was not until 1987 that her body was found in a shallow grave on Saddleworth Moor after Hindley and Brady's jail-cell confessions.

John Kilbride vanished four months after Pauline - the day after President John F Kennedy's assassination in the United States.

Lured

He was lured up on to the moor, sexually assaulted and murdered.

A photograph taken by Brady of Hindley posing on the edge of John's grave holding her pet dog would later lead police to the young boy's resting place.

The body of the murderers' next victim, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, has never been discovered.

He vanished after leaving his home in Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester on June 16 1964.

Tortured

Lesley Ann Downey was murdered on Boxing Day, 1964.

The 10-year-old - the youngest victim of the evil pair - was enticed from a fairground to the house Hindley shared with her grandmother in Hattersley.

In Hindley's bedroom, she was stripped, sexually abused and tortured as they forced her to pose for pornographic photographs.

The harrowing attack was recorded on audio tape by Hindley. The tape lasted 16 minutes 21 seconds.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12169674,00.html
 
AN ICON OF MODERN EVIL


Myra Hindley became one of the few female icons of evil to haunt the nation.

Her part in the Moors Murders gave her an infamy which remained undimmed by 36 years in jail.


It was fuelled partly by shock that a woman could have carried out such horrific crimes against children.

Any bid to win her freedom attracted an avalanche of hostility and even the sight of her portrait hanging in a London gallery triggered violent protests.

Abduct

Hindley always claimed that her only role in the murders was to abduct the children.

She insisted she did not take part in the killings or sex attacks.

She claimed to be infatuated with Ian Brady, a lover who beat and blackmailed her into going along with his demonic plans.

Her supporters argued that crucial mitigating factors about Brady's stranglehold over her were not taken into account during their trial.

Threatened

In 1998 Hindley claimed Brady had threatened to kill her mother, grandmother and sister if she did not participate in the murders.

But the public remained unconvinced and the families of her victims vowed to kill her if she was ever set free.

Brady wrote to ministers in 1997 claiming she was as committed to murder as he was, dismissing suggestions that she was an unwilling accomplice.

Hindley was well aware that her chances of freedom were slim and knew the hazards that would await her if she had been released.

"I know I could be out one week before someone assassinated me," she said. "I would prefer one week of freedom to the security of a lifetime of incarceration."
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12169839,00.html
 
Why wont they let him die? I can recall a few non intervention IRA deaths via hunger strike. Bobby Sands and his brood was it not? Whos call is it to let them die or restrain them for food?
 
A 38 month hunger strike? He must be doing something wrong. Either that or he was a cow when he started.

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its a he, myra has just died, 38month hunger striker [and other moors murderer paul brady] is still going at age 64. he may or may not be a cow....
 
the comparison with the ira case is a good one - many believed it was margaret thatcher's call to not force feed them. in fact it was a judge deciding it was the prisoners' right to receive food - in the ian brady case a judge ruled to the contrary - that it was in brady's interest to feed him.
 
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