2002: Moors Murderer Myra Hindley Dies in Prison After Thirty-Six Years
Myra Hindley, convicted with Ian Brady of the Moors murders of children in the 1960s, died at West Suffolk Hospital on this day in 2002, aged 60. She had spent thirty-six years behind bars, among the longest terms served by a woman in British prison history, and successive governments ensured she would never be released despite repeated parole applications.
A chain smoker for decades, she had already survived a brain aneurysm and been diagnosed with angina before bronchial pneumonia finally killed her. She remained one of the most reviled figures in British criminal history, her name still synonymous with the murders that first brought her and Brady to notoriety.
