Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Myra Hindley


Related Topics

In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

  
  Myra Hindley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myra Hindley (23 July 1942–15 November 2002), known as the Moors Murderess, was born in Crumpsall, Manchester.
In December 1997, November 1998 and March 2000, Hindley made appeals to the House of Lords to be released from prison, claiming she was no longer a danger to the public and had been acting under Brady's influence.
Hindley's hopes of release were given a major boost in May 2002 when the House of Lords ruled that the Home Secretary could no longer overrule the parole board's recommendations that a prisoner should be released.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myra_Hindley   (2002 words)

  
 Myra Hindley's Tomb Stone - One Down, One To Go   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LONDON (AP) _ Myra Hindley, one of Britain's most hated women for her involvement in a string of child killings in the 1960s that gave her the nickname the "Moors Murderer," died Friday.
Hindley always claimed that her role was to abduct the children and that she did not take part in the killings or sex attacks.
Hindley, who became a devout Roman Catholic and received a humanities degree while in prison, admitted that "my conscience will follow me to my dying day." But she insisted that she had paid her debt to society and yearned to be released.
www.theghoulpool.com /GP2002/hindley.htm   (242 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Myra Hindley Biography
Myra Hindley, who went on to become one of the most reviled women of the twentieth century, was the first child of Hettie & Bob Hindley, born on 23rd July 1942 in Manchester.
Hindley was irresistibly drawn to Brady, seeing romance and intelligence in his aloofness, and she wrote of her intense feelings for him in her diary for over a year, before he finally showed some interest in her.
Hindley had in fact lured him into her car, with a request for assistance in loading some boxes, then rendezvoused with Brady on Saddleworth Moor, where Keith was taken, by Brady, to a gully next to a stream, raped, strangled and buried.
thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/1639:1931/Myra_Hindley.htm   (1524 words)

  
 Find Keith Bennett - Articles - ??/??/?? - Myra Hindley - The benchmark of evil
Myra Hindley was born in July 1942 in Gorton, Manchester, and grew up in the care of her grandmother.
But Brady has long countered that Hindley was as involved in the abduction, torture and murder of each victim as himself, and has even written to the Government imploring ministers not to release his accomplice on the basis that she was as much to blame as he.
Myra Hindley's supporters claimed she was the only one, of those who had not killed their victims, to be told they would die in jail.
www.bernardomahoney.com /keithbennett/articles/mhtboe.shtml   (1002 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Myra Hindley
At the time of her death, Hindley's lawyers, led by Edward Fitzgerald QC, were fighting to uphold a high court judgment that for politicians to increase tariffs in such cases - and Fitzgerald always included Hindley among the small group of "lifers" affected by this practice - was beyond their powers and illegal.
Hindley was born in the Manchester district of Gorton to a father who was later disabled by an accident at work and a mother who was a machinist in a local factory, she was an unambitious, unremarkable, tongue-tied school-leaver in a dead-end clerical job at Millwards Chemical Merchants when she met stock clerk Ian Brady.
At the time of her death, Hindley's case and the whole question of politicians' rights to increase tariffs set by trial judges was heading inexorably for the European courts.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,841049,00.html   (1661 words)

  
 BBC - Manchester Have Your Say - Myra Hindley - Should life mean life?
Hindley was her only hope of laying her son to rest and she has been deprived of that hope.
Myra Hindley was an evil woman who, when in prison pretended that she was a reformed character, saw the light as it were.
Myra Hindley deliberately and with malice aforethought trawled the streets to find victims for both herself and her boyfriend of the time, Ian Brady.
www.bbc.co.uk /manchester/have_your_say/2002/11/16/myra_hindley.shtml   (7102 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Obituary: Myra Hindley
The crimes committed by Hindley and her lover, Ian Brady, shocked the nation and became the benchmark by which other acts of evil came to be measured.
Hindley was born in Crumpsall, a Manchester suburb, in 1942.
Hindley took her case to the House of Lords in 2000, but again failed, when five law lords ruled unanimously that Mr Straw's decision had been lawful and justified.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/452614.stm   (899 words)

  
 Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley, whose crimes nothing can ever excuse, paid a terrible price for the insistence of successive Home Secretaries on keeping, and cravenly exercising, a power they should never have been allowed to possess.
As of now (March 2000), Myra Hindley has been in prison for nearly 35 years (she was charged on 26 October, 1965, and convicted and sentenced on 6 May, 1966).
The tariffs for Hindley's incarceration deemed proper by successive judges (and by one solitary Home Secretary)––20, 25, 30 years––already encompass the law's acceptance of society's right, not only to deterrence, but also to retribution (however much some of us might question whether this is indeed an acceptable and justifiable element in punishment).
www.barder.com /politics/liberty/hindley/index.php   (1844 words)

  
 brady
Hindley was to cruise the residential roads in a borrowed van while Brady followed on his motorbike.
Hindley was to stop and lure the victim into the van on the promise of a reward for helping her find an expensive glove lost at a picnic on the Moors a few days before.
Hindley later told detectives that she waited in the bathroom for about 20 minutes and when Brady didn't bring the girl in she went back to the bedroom to be confronted by a horrific sight.
website.lineone.net /~tymaloney/brady.htm   (910 words)

  
 Myra Hindley is told she will never be released
MYRA Hindley, jailed for life for her part in the Moors murders, was told yesterday that she will never be freed.
Hindley was originally told in December 1994 that she would have to remain in prison until she died.
Hindley was convicted with her lover, Ian Brady, in 1966 of the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.
telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/02/05/nmyr05.html   (809 words)

  
 Ian Brady & Myra Hindley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In December 1995, Hindley, who is in the same jail in northern England as fellow serial killer Rosemary West, gave her first public account of her crime spree, admitting she had been wicked and corrupt but claiming she was now a changed woman.
Hindley described herself as a political prisoner who was being used as a scapegoat by politicians and the media.
Hindley's lawyers will argue that the decision did not reflect the views of the judge in the case, Mr.
www.geocities.com /prophet31_/hindley.html   (558 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Moors murderer Hindley dies
Hindley was jailed for life in 1966 for murdering two children with her lover Ian Brady, and later confessed to killing two more.
Hindley had made a number of legal bids for freedom, but had been told she would never be released from Highpoint Prison in Suffolk.
"Myra was deeply aware of the terrible crimes she had committed and of the suffering caused to those who died and to their relatives," the statement said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2481193.stm   (778 words)

  
 Tony Blair and New Labour let Hindley go.
Myra Hindley was entitled to know her release date from prison, and home secretaries were not allowed to determine sentence.
For a year or two Myra Hindley was ferried back and forth to hospital under the pretext she had heart problems, although, any sign of this condition evaporates when we examine press photos of Myra at Cookham wood prison.
Hindley and the system which released her embodies everything what is wrong with Britain: its weak, liberal elite who are exploited by the most heinous people imaginable.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /newuniverse/myra_5.html   (736 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Myra Hindley dies in hospital
Hindley, a chain smoker, had experienced ill-health for much of her 36 years behind bars, suffering from angina, suspected strokes and osteoporosis.
Hindley, who had become a devout Catholic, was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday with a chest infection.
Hindley and Ian Brady, 64, were jailed for life in 1966 for the sexual abuse, torture and murder of three youngsters.
www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,2763,841130,00.html   (949 words)

  
 Myra hindley finally kicks the bucket!!! - Ummah.com
Hindley is understood to have ordered that none of her organs should be offered for transplant if she died and detailed that she wanted to be cremated and her ashes scattered at a secret location.
Hindley and Ian Brady, 64, were jailed for life in 1966 for three murders, sexual abuse and the torture of young children.
Hindley had clung to the hope that she might one day win her freedom despite the determination of successive home secretaries that she should die behind bars.
www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=10611   (1368 words)

  
 Myra Hindley dead - smh.com.au
Myra Hindley in 1966, the year she was jailed for life.
Myra Hindley, Britain's longest-serving and most reviled female prisoner, died on Friday night after spending 36 years in prison for her role in the Moors Murders.
Hindley's dyed blonde hair, with the dark roots providing a sharp contrast, are etched in the memory.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/16/1037080963613.html   (599 words)

  
 Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley (July 23, 1942 - November 15, 2002) was an English woman, one of the Moors Murderers, jailed for murder in 1966.
The power of this image was demonstrated in 1997, when a painting by British artist Marcus Harvey[?] was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London as part of the Sensation exhibition.
Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess, Jean Ritchie, Paladin 1991, pbk.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/my/Myra_Hindley.html   (214 words)

  
 Myra Hindley, moors murderer, by Brian Deer
Myra Hindley used to be a sadistic child-killer, but she is all right now.
When Hindley was arrested, charged and brought to court, she remained unco-operative and unrepentant throughout.
But the campaign for Hindley gathers pace, with even hard-nosed observers of the Moors murder trial joining her graduation ceremony guests in arguing that prison life has helped her to mature and that she could soon be safely set free.
briandeer.com /social/myra-hindley.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Murder on the Moors: The Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Story - Crime Library
Myra had told him that she was afraid to walk home alone in the dark so he agreed to walk with her.
Myra reluctantly gave him a key to the upstairs bedroom, the only room in the house that was locked, where the body of a young man was found wrapped in a grey blanket.
When Myra was questioned, she supported Brady's story, describing how she had been horrified and frightened by the ordeal.
www.crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/moors/index_1.html   (1535 words)

  
 How Myra Hindley changed our world - [Sunday Herald]
With Hindley at his side, Brady was able to debunk the innocence of the swinging sixties and wake Britain up to the truth about the human capa city for hatred, violence and sickness.
Hindley taught Britain that women could kill, that women could be driven by brutal sexual urges that were once thought of as the realm of delinquent, disturbed men.
This wasn't some one-off act that Hindley committed at Brady's side Ð her career as a criminal lasted two years, she stood by him during the trial and even in prison still asserted she wanted to marry him.
www.sundayherald.com /29290   (1948 words)

  
 Myra Hindley Paintings - Big Painting Guide
Myra Hindley was one of the killers in The Moors Murders which Morrissey wrote aboutin Suffer Little...
The iconic photographic portrait of Myra Hindley from the...
This portrait of leading British serial child killer, Myra Hindley, was a version of her...
www.bigpaintingguide.com /myra-hindley-paintings.html   (545 words)

  
 The Moors Murders
Hindley grew up in the Gorton suburb of Manchester and came from a stable, loving, working class background.
Brady and Hindley drove him to their council house in Hattersley, East Manchester, where the youth was brutally and mercilessly axed to death.
Hindley was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Edward Evans and Lesley Ann Downey, and a further seven year term for being an accessory after the fact in the murder of John Kilbride.
freespace.virgin.net /greg.taylor1/moors.html   (766 words)

  
 Telegraph | Opinion | Death comes to Myra Hindley
This is a taboo worth preserving, and it helps explain the adamantine refusal of public opinion to accept Hindley's declarations of repentance or her pleas to be released.
Her situation of permanent incarceration was what the public understandably demanded and yet it was also, as the lawyers and campaigners for her release argued, unfair.
On the one hand, the tabloid rage against Hindley has had something bestial and semi-pornographic about it - a desire, if that were possible, to add to the terrible pain of the murders themselves.
telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/11/16/dl1601.xml   (440 words)

  
 Myra Hindley mugshot - Mugshots.com - Biggest Directory of Mug shots on the internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Myra Hindley clearly never got the message about women’s liberation, as she was so firmly under the thumb of her psychotic boyfriend that she would do anything, even lure young victims to their rape and murder, in order to keep him.
During 1963 and 1964, she participated in the murder of at least three children in Britain — ages 16, 12 and 10.
Suspected of being involved in at least five more murders, Hindley was sentenced to two life terms, and kept trying to get an early release right up until she died in November of 2002 of a chest infection.
www.mugshots.com /Criminal/Killers/Myra+Hindley.htm   (159 words)

  
 Myra Hindley's kicked it. - @forums
I would rather have the lung of a disease infested mongolian rat than have one of hers....I would probally need loads of disease infested rat lungs to make up for the size and stuff...and they would have to be linked with tubes and stuff....that would be pretty gross...but still....
At least her partner in crime had the decency to admit he's barking mad and should stay in prison the rest of his life.
Hindley was one sick fuck too, I still shiver when I think about that poor girl being taped as she was tortured.
www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=163545   (719 words)

  
 Myra Hindley
The bodies were buried in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor, Manchester, leading the crimes to be referred to as the Moors Murders.
Hindley was sentenced to life imprisonment on 6 May 1966.
News of her crimes was received with horror by the public, to the extent that the name Myra was all but abandoned.
www.nndb.com /people/400/000112064   (104 words)

  
 MSPEDIA - MYRA HINDLEY & IAN BRADY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Figuring Smith would be interested because of his long history of violence and heavy drinking, the couple thought they could persuade the man by using a live demonstration.
However, one thing that helped to locate the needed bodies for evidence, was a photo Brady had taken of Hindley on the moors.
Although recently, Hindley tried to get paroled, she was denied.
homepage.eircom.net /~manics/MSPedia/HindleyAndBrady.htm   (348 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.