100 Facts About Myra Hindley

Myra Hindley's died in 2002 in West Suffolk Hospital, aged 60, after serving 36 years in prison.

Myra Hindley made it clear that he never wished to be released and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die.

Myra Hindley's mother continued to visit him throughout his childhood.

Myra Hindley left the academy aged 15 and took a job as a tea boy at a Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan.

Myra Hindley again appeared before the court, this time with nine charges against him, and shortly before his 17th birthday he was placed on probation on condition that he live with his mother.

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Myra Hindley was sent to Latchmere House in London, and then Hatfield borstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Myra Hindley was regarded by his colleagues as a quiet, punctual, but short-tempered young man.

Myra Hindley rode a Tiger Cub motorcycle, which he used to visit the Pennines.

Myra Hindley was born in Crumpsall on 23 July 1942 to parents Nellie and Bob Hindley and raised in Gorton, then a working-class area of Manchester dominated by Victorian slum housing.

The family home was in poor condition and Myra Hindley was forced to sleep in a single bed next to her parents' double bed.

Myra Hindley's father had served with the Parachute Regiment and was stationed in North Africa, Cyprus and Italy during the Second World War.

Myra Hindley had been known as a hard man while in the army and he expected his daughter to be equally tough; he taught her to fight and insisted that she stick up for herself.

When Myra Hindley was aged about eight, a local boy scratched her cheeks, drawing blood.

Myra Hindley's was not only used to violence in the home but rewarded for it outside.

Myra Hindley's took up a collection for a wreath; his funeral was held at St Francis's Monastery in Gorton Lane.

Monastery where, as an infant in 1942, Myra Hindley had been baptised a Catholic, had a lasting effect on her.

Myra Hindley's father had insisted she have a Catholic baptism, and her mother agreed, on the condition that she not be sent to a Catholic school; Nellie Myra Hindley believed that "all the monks taught was the catechism".

Myra Hindley was increasingly drawn to the Roman Catholic Church after she started at Ryder Brow Secondary Modern, and began taking instruction for formal reception into the Church soon after Higgins's funeral.

Myra Hindley's took the confirmation name of Veronica and received her First Communion in November 1958.

Myra Hindley's ran errands, typed, made tea, and was well liked enough that when she lost her first week's wage packet, the other girls took up a collection to replace it.

Myra Hindley took weekly judo lessons at a local school, but found partners reluctant to train with her, as she was often slow to release her grip.

Myra Hindley's took a job at Bratby and Hinchliffe, an engineering company in Gorton, but was dismissed for absenteeism after six months.

Myra Hindley's soon became infatuated with Brady, despite learning that he had a criminal record.

Myra Hindley began to emulate an ideal of Aryan perfection, bleaching her hair blonde and applying thick crimson lipstick.

Myra Hindley's expressed concern at some aspects of Brady's character; in a letter to a childhood friend, she mentioned an incident where she had been drugged by Brady, but wrote of her obsession with him.

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Myra Hindley began to change her appearance further, wearing clothing considered risque such as high boots, short skirts and leather jackets, and the two became less sociable to their colleagues.

Myra Hindley befriended George Clitheroe, the President of the Cheadle Rifle Club, and on several occasions visited two local shooting ranges.

Myra Hindley's asked to join a pistol club, but she was a poor shot and allegedly often bad-tempered, so Clitheroe told her that she was unsuitable; she did though manage to purchase a Webley.

For Myra Hindley, this demonstrated a marked change from her earlier, more shy and prudish nature.

Myra Hindley claimed that Brady began to talk about "committing the perfect murder" in July 1963, and often spoke to her about Meyer Levin's Compulsion, published as a novel in 1956 and adapted for the cinema in 1959.

Myra Hindley did not approve of the marriage, and her mother was too embarrassed as Maureen was seven months pregnant.

Myra Hindley was apparently jealous of their friendship, but became closer to her sister.

Early on Boxing Day 1964, Myra Hindley left her grandmother at a relative's house and refused to allow her back to Wardle Brook Avenue that night.

At various times Myra Hindley gave conflicting statements about the extent to which she, versus Brady, was responsible for Reade being selected as their first victim, but said she felt that there would be less attention given to the disappearance of a teenager than of an 8-year-old.

Once Reade was in the van, Myra Hindley asked her to help in searching Saddleworth Moor for an expensive lost glove; Reade agreed and they drove there.

Myra Hindley later claimed that she waited in the van while Brady took Reade onto the moor.

Once Kilbride was inside Myra Hindley's hired Ford Anglia car, Brady said they would have to make a detour to their home for the sherry.

Early in the evening of 16 June 1964, Myra Hindley asked twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, who was on his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight, for help in loading some boxes into her Mini Pick-up, after which she said she would drive him home.

Myra Hindley drove to a lay-by on Saddleworth Moor and Brady went off with Bennett, supposedly looking for a lost glove.

Brady and Myra Hindley visited a funfair in Ancoats on 26 December 1964 and noticed that 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey was apparently alone.

Myra Hindley later maintained that she went to fill a bath for Downey and found her dead when she returned; Brady claimed that Myra Hindley killed Downey.

Myra Hindley's family had not approved of Maureen's marriage to Smith, who had several criminal convictions, including actual bodily harm and housebreaking, the first of which, wounding with intent, occurred when he was 11.

Myra Hindley returned with Smith and told him to wait outside for her signal, a flashing light.

Myra Hindley was lying with his head and shoulders on the couch and his legs were on the floor.

Myra Hindley was picked up by a police car from the phone box and taken to Hyde police station, where he told officers what he had witnessed in the night.

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Myra Hindley led him into the living room, where Brady was lying on a divan, writing to his employer about his ankle injury.

Myra Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house.

Myra Hindley's refused to make any statement about Evans's death beyond claiming it had been an accident, and was allowed to go home on the condition that she return the next day.

Police searching the house at Wardle Brook Avenue found an old exercise book with the name "John Kilbride", which made them suspect that Brady and Myra Hindley had been involved in the disappearances of other young people.

That same day, already being held for the murder of Evans, Brady and Myra Hindley appeared at Hyde Magistrates' Court charged with Downey's murder.

Myra Hindley had been charged with the murders of Downey and Evans, and being an accessory to the murder of Kilbride.

Brady and Myra Hindley were charged with murdering Evans, Downey and Kilbride.

Brady was defended by Emlyn Hooson QC, the Liberal Member of Parliament, and Myra Hindley was defended by Godfrey Heilpern QC, recorder of Salford from 1964; both were experienced Queen's Counsel.

Myra Hindley denied any knowledge that the photographs of Saddleworth Moor found by police had been taken near the graves of their victims.

Myra Hindley admitted that her attitude towards Downey was "brusque and cruel", but claimed that was only because she was afraid that someone might hear Downey screaming.

Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Myra Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had murdered Kilbride.

Myra Hindley called Brady "wicked beyond belief" and said he saw no reasonable possibility of reform for him, though he did not think the same necessarily true of Hindley once "removed from [Brady's] influence".

In 1985, Brady allegedly told Fred Harrison, a journalist working for The Sunday People, that he had killed Reade and Bennett, something the police already suspected as both lived near Brady and Myra Hindley and had disappeared at about the same time as Kilbride and Downey.

In November 1986, Bennett's mother wrote to Myra Hindley begging to know what had happened to her son, a letter that Myra Hindley seemed to be "genuinely moved" by.

Myra Hindley's showed particular interest in photos of the area around Hollin Brown Knoll and Shiny Brook, but said that it was impossible to be sure of the locations without visiting the moor.

On 16 December 1986, Myra Hindley made the first of two visits to assist the police search of the moor.

Myra Hindley had difficulty connecting what she saw to her memories, and was apparently nervous of the helicopters flying overhead.

On 10 February 1987 Myra Hindley formally confessed to involvement in all five murders, but this was not made public for more than a month.

Once presented with some of the details that Myra Hindley had provided of Reade's abduction, Brady decided that he too was prepared to confess, but on one condition: that immediately afterwards he be given the means to commit suicide, a request with which it was impossible for the authorities to comply.

Myra Hindley, who had not replied to the first letter, responded by thanking Johnson for both letters, explaining that her decision not to reply to the first resulted from the negative publicity that surrounded it.

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Myra Hindley's claimed that, had Johnson written to her fourteen years earlier, she would have confessed and helped the police.

Myra Hindley's paid tribute to DCS Topping, and thanked Johnson for her sincerity.

Myra Hindley's stayed overnight in Manchester, at the flat of the police chief in charge of GMP training at Sedgley Park, Prestwich, and visited the moor twice.

Myra Hindley confirmed to police that the two areas in which they were concentrating their search—Hollin Brown Knoll and Hoe Grain—were correct, although she was unable to locate either of the graves.

Myra Hindley's did, though, later remember that as Reade was being buried she had been sitting next to her on a patch of grass and could see the rocks of Hollin Brown Knoll silhouetted against the night sky.

Myra Hindley's said that she saw no possibility of release, and exonerated Smith from any part in the murders other than that of Evans.

Myra Hindley told Topping that she knew nothing of these killings.

Myra Hindley spent nineteen years in mainstream prisons before being diagnosed as a psychopath in November 1985 and sent to the high-security Park Lane Hospital, now Ashworth Hospital, in Maghull, Merseyside; he made it clear that he never wanted to be released.

Myra Hindley complained bitterly about conditions at Ashworth, which he hated.

Myra Hindley was therefore force-fed and transferred to another hospital for tests after he fell ill.

Myra Hindley gets the potentially fatal brain condition, whilst I have to fight simply to die.

Myra Hindley saw no point in making any kind of public apology; instead, he "expresse[d] remorse through actions".

Myra Hindley once offered to donate one of his kidneys to "someone, anyone who needed one", but was blocked from doing so.

Myra Hindley did not refer directly to Bennett by name and did not claim he could take investigators directly to the grave, but spoke of the "clarity" of his recollections.

Myra Hindley was cremated without a ceremony, and his ashes disposed of at sea during the night.

Myra Hindley lodged an unsuccessful appeal against her conviction immediately after the trial.

Myra Hindley's corresponded with Brady by letter until 1971, when she ended their relationship.

Myra Hindley successfully petitioned to have her status as a Category A prisoner changed to Category B, which enabled Governor Dorothy Wing to take her on a walk round Hampstead Heath, part of her unofficial policy of reintroducing her charges to the outside world when she felt they were ready.

Myra Hindley was told that she should spend twenty-five years in prison before being considered for parole.

Downey's mother was at the centre of a campaign to ensure that Myra Hindley was never released from prison, and until her death in February 1999, she regularly gave television and newspaper interviews whenever Myra Hindley's release was rumoured.

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Myra Hindley was not informed of the decision until 1994, when a Law Lords ruling obliged the Prison Service to inform all life sentence prisoners of the minimum period they must serve in prison before being considered for parole.

Myra Hindley's rejected the idea and in early 1998 was moved to the medium-security HM Prison Highpoint; the House of Lords ruling left open the possibility of later freedom.

Between December 1997 and March 2000, Myra Hindley made three separate appeals against her life tariff, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but each was rejected by the courts.

Myra Hindley's release seemed imminent and plans were made by supporters for her to be given a new identity.

Myra Hindley's had been diagnosed with angina in 1999 and hospitalised after suffering a brain aneurysm.

Camera crews "stood rank and file behind steel barriers" outside, but none of Myra Hindley's relatives were among the small congregation of eight to ten people who attended a short service at Cambridge crematorium.

Myra Hindley's divorced Smith in 1973, and married a lorry driver, Bill Scott, with whom she had a daughter.

In 1980, Maureen suffered a brain haemorrhage; Myra Hindley was allowed to visit her in hospital, but arrived an hour after her death.

Myra Hindley pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to two days' detention.

Myra Hindley remarried and moved to Lincolnshire with his three sons, and was exonerated of any participation in the Moors murders by Hindley's confession in 1987.

Myra Hindley's was present, under heavy sedation, at the funeral of her daughter on 7 August 1987.

Since her daughter's death, she had campaigned to ensure that Myra Hindley remained in prison, and doctors said that the stress had contributed to the severity of her illness.

Manchester City Council decided in 1987 to demolish the house in which Brady and Myra Hindley had lived on Wardle Brook Avenue, and where Downey and Evans were murdered, citing "excessive media interest [in the property] creating unpleasantness for residents".

Myra Hindley described Hindley as a "delightful" person and said "you could loathe what people did but should not loathe what they were because human personality was sacred even though human behaviour was very often appalling".

Myra Hindley's became a long-running source of material for the press, which printed embellished tales of her "cushy" life at the "5-star" Cookham Wood Prison and her liaisons with prison staff and other inmates.