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The Moors murders were a series of child killings committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in and around Manchester, England, between July 1963 and October 1965.The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted.
Maureen died in 1980, aged 34, after suffering a brain haemorrhage; David remarried and had a daughter with his second wife; Brady is currently imprisoned at Ashworth psychiatric hospital in Maghull near Liverpool; and Hindley, aged 60, died in prison from a heart attack in November 2002 after 36 years in prison. By the time of her death, she ...
HM Prison Holloway was a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, ... Moors murderess Myra Hindley; in 1967, Kim Newell, ...
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Longford is a 2006 British biographical crime drama television film directed by Tom Hooper and written by Peter Morgan.The film centres on Labour Party peer Lord Longford and his campaign for the parole of Moors Murderer Myra Hindley.
Hindley's supporters, including penal reformer Lord Longford, journalist David Astor and prison governor Peter Timms, claimed that the increase in Hindley's sentence was the response of a succession of Home Secretaries to public opinion, as there was widespread media and public opposition to Hindley ever being released, and similarly widespread ...
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
She joins the ranks of Rose West, serial killer Joanna Dennehy, and the late Moors murderer Myra Hindley to be given a sentence of life in prison without parole. The Independent looks into what ...