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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.
Ian Fowler (28 June 1939 – 15 February 2013) [1] was a British journalist, who worked for the Manchester Evening News.He came to prominence as a result of becoming the first person to link the deaths of the four child victims in the Moors Murders case.
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a two-part British television serial, directed by Christopher Menaul, produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV on 14 and 15 May 2006. The serial tells the story of the Moors murders, which were committed, between July 1963 and October 1965, by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. The narrative is from the ...
Brady never made a legal challenge against his whole life tariff and made it clear long before his death that he did not want to be paroled. He died, aged 79, at Ashworth Hospital in May 2017. [10] Myra Hindley: 1966 2002 The other of the Moors Murderers, Ian Brady's girlfriend and accomplice who was involved in all five murders with Brady. She ...
Died in prison Committed the so-called Moors murders with girlfriend Myra Hindley, killing five children and burying four of their bodies on Saddleworth Moor [11] Britland, Mary Ann: 1886 3 3 Executed in 1886 Poisoned her daughter, husband, and the wife of her lover in 1886; first woman to be executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison [12 ...
John Deane Potter was one of Fleet Street's most prodigious reporters in the post-war years, covering many of the major events including the trial of the Moors murders Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in 1966. He served in Burma and India during the Second World War as a newspaper correspondent.
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.
Other artists have deliberately employed the notoriety of the murders to shock their audience, as with the short-lived punk band The Moors Murderers in 1977-8, and Marcus Harvey's large portrait of Myra Hindley, created from the handprints of children, which had to be temporarily removed from display at the Sensation exhibition at the Royal ...